Anyone Know Good Privacy Email? Please Share What You Know

[Slacker]

Hi,

Hopefully just like me you're on the hunt for a good email service.

I've been looking at a lot of them out there, but I'm still trying to find one I like.

Here's some sites I've found that list a few privacy releated email services.

http://anonym.to/?http://thesimplecomputer.info/free-webmail-for-better-privacy/
http://anonym.to/?http://prxbx.com/email/

If you know of any privacy email, please share what you know.

[thorallmighty]

Hi Slacker,

 I myself went to forums and looked for a good privacy e-mail And people seemed to like countermail a lot. I do not have it as you have to pay for it and it kind of is expensive.

[Slacker]

Countermail is popular, I'm just looking for something good and free...

[maxbudin]

Hi Slacker. Ever since I got locked out of my gmail a/c, Ive been shopping around for an alternative. Not so much for that elusive privacy but out of frustration of being treated as such.  I had looked at the very same sites before your post, no freebee. In the interim till there is a better service I'm checking out mail.com.  It has a nice and easy layout.  Yeah I know, its not exactly secure, hopefully they wont choke my access.  Appreciate if you'd pass me a note if you find better service. Thanks.

[thorallmighty]

I also have to add something. I have fastmail.fm e-mail it can be free and also paid account. I paid for a 2 year subscription but it only cost $9.90 so basically $10 not bad at all!! it is the ad-free package. The company was bought by opera. But now the company bought it back it is based in Australia. But it does have some servers in new york if i can remember, I had a conversation with a person there about privacy and it kind of does look promising, here it is below:

Hi,

We take our users' privacy seriously and we are continually investigating ways to improve our system.  Also, we use FastMail too, and we want it to be secure!

We are an Australian company, but it is true that our primary servers are currently in the USA.

For more details you can refer to our privacy policy here:

https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_privacy.html

However, no governments or other third parties have routine access to our servers or data. We accept STARTTLS on SMTP, which provides some measure of protection against anyone monitoring the network before it reaches our servers (you can see in the Received: headers if this was used on an individual message).  We also support ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key exchange, which protects past communications against a future compromise of our private keys.

That said, we are currently looking at a number of options to further improve our protection against hostile eavesdroppers, which include hosting portions of our system in different jurisdictions, and encrypting as much stored data as possible. Its still work in progress and is not something we can give a timeline on at the moment, but we hope to do this in the coming months.

[Slacker]

I've already looked at all these email companies I put links to, I would not use fastmail or mail.com

Maybe you guys are familiar with Lavabit? I just tried to load the site but it's not loading but I'd keep trying it and READ what the owner put for a HOME page, you might be really surprised!

http://anonym.to/?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit

Even by the Lavabit owners own admission, I'd stay away from USA companies or servers in the USA!

Check out mail.be, they are in Belgium and read what they have to say about NSA, etc...

http://anonym.to/?https://www.mail.be/index.jsp

The only problem with mail.be is they include your IP address in the headers, so I'd contact them about this, and tell them you'd like to use their services but not until this is changed, because it's my understanding they are in the process of removing it.

In the meantime what I'd do is use MaskMe; http://anonym.to/?https://www.abine.com/maskme/ and create Masked Emails when you need to hand them out, even to friends and family, because email travels in plain text unless encrypted and until mail.be changes the IP address in the headers you can use it to receive email and use something else to send email...

[WeekendsAreSpecial]

Hi Slacker. Ever since I got locked out of my gmail a/c, Ive been shopping around for an alternative.

Because of issues related to web privacy, I loathe Google. Anyone who appreciates web privacy and uses Google is doing a huge disservice - you're putting money in Google's pocket every time you use Google. Now I use StartPage for doing searches on the web, it's 10x better than Duck Duck Go, in my opinion. Once you read StartPage's web privacy policy you'll never go back to Google. I wish the world would ban together and not use Google for 30 days, that would make Google cringe. Anyway, why were you locked out of your Gmail account? I have read where people were locked out with no explanation from Google. Others reported going to their Gmail account where they found that all of their email had vanished into thin air, so to speak.

[maxbudin]

Yah, in trying to rectify my predicament, I did look around and there were many people all over the world with different or similar issues. And I stopped looking at 2009, might have stretched back further than that.  There were a few chaps here commenting that gmail issued warning of suspected acount breach and recommended change of password.

In my case, and Im not certain if my problems were 100% identical to the others.  My take on my problem is that google security actively monitored all mail accounts in the background for certain irregularities during usage.  I had an addon in firefox to alert me on any new mail at preset intervals into multile accounts.  This went on daily while I logged VPN into different countries routed, sometimes proxied.  On ocassions, Id nip into playstore on my android phone while concurrently my wife would use my tablet, both I believe google identifies user by the gmail account. So with all three accesses from different sources and countries might have caused google security to red flag my account and block it until I identified myself as valid user which I did.

Steps I took to avoid getting block until I could harvest and move my important emails and contacts somewhere else was to deactivate the addon in firefox, killed the gmail registration on the android devices and made new accounts for them.  So far so good, seemed to have worked.