Posted on 04/16/2014 11:10:43 AM PDT by This Just In
Good day,
My family and I are currently searching for another email provider. We are seeking a service which uses SMTP-TLS in order to protect their clients privacy.
Any suggestions/recommendations? Does anyone use FastMail?
Thanks, TJI
Are you intent on finding a provider or are you open to the idea of setting up your own email system? I recently setup my own email server using TLS for SMTP and IMAP/S for retrieval. It’s all hosted on a machine with a single processor, 2 GB of RAM, 20 GB of disk and it uses Linux. It takes a while to setup, but the end result is your own private server to which no one has access except you and those you designate.
Just throwing it out there. Otherwise, I wish you luck in your discovery. I’m not familiar with any providers who I would trust.
This was already mentioned, but I am offering support of his post.
They offer a variety of services, including secure web-based contact forms.
I do not possess the knowledge or experience to accomplish this. I do thank you for your comments.
Thank you. I’ll look into it.
I have a Fastmail account. I am slowly weaning myself off of Gmail. Fastmail is......fast.
You’re your own best email service provider.
Linux. The software’s free.
You just have to do your homework to make it secure.
It’s a lot of effort.
But then you’ll know that your mailserver is secure.
Trouble is with email, it goes from sender’s email client -> sender’s email server -> receiver’s email server -> receiver’s email client.
But, IMHO, if I had the time, it would be great to know that my mail was on my own box.
Is security your beef, or functionality/space/etc. ?
Ok, I see your other responses.
All I can say is buyer beware on privacy.
For example, your provider can promise you things, but if their mail server software is running on a virtual server they rent (the cloud), then fedzilla could possibly be seeing it anyway.
Privacy is very, very, very difficult to ensure. Usually when one thinks things are private, they’re still not.
You can open an account for free, but if you don’t use it for three weeks it dies and you have to pay ransom if you still want it.
If not sufficient, use other method. Pidgeons, couriers etc.
Nope.
Both sides must use the same encryption software and private system, at a minimum.
That is they must agree to PGP type encryption but, NSA played a huge role in “helping” to develop that.
Sohhh, who knows how secure it really is. Itsat least as secure as Stanley locks and will keep out “honest” people.
Next, they must not allow their transmissions to go over anything free. It ain’t free and comes with all kinds of compromise to your security and privacy.
They would need their own webservers, email servers and domain.
Even then, the government trawls everything. Kinda like casting a net for tuna and promising not to keep anything but the intended target.
The don’t, even though they are required to “minimize”(toss that which is not germaine to a warrant).
I’m not sure yet how ensure the government doesn’t get your stuff and scan it and store it. The just do and anyone saying they don’t is a liar or uninformed.
There are too many news articles discussing this over the years that give truth to that lie.
Our friends told us about FastMail. I believe they had a Google account, but the X’d that. Thanks.
All of the above, but esp. security. Ideally, I’d love to be my own provider, but not able to.
I visited the site. Am I missing something, or are they concealing the price packages unless you sign up?
I don’t mind paying, but I’d rather sign up for a service that’s reliable.
I was thinkin’ Pony Express.
Lavabit And Silent Circle Join Forces To Make All Email Surveillance-Proof
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/30/lavabit-and-silent-circle-join-forces-to-make-all-email-surveillance-proof/
You can also check with the StartPage https://startpage.com/ (an anonymous search engine that doesn’t track you like Google does) people who are developing StartMail https://beta.startmail.com/ that is currently in beta testing and find out when it’ll be ready for use by the public.
The lady who started StartPage and is developing StartMail is Katherine Albrecht. She’s a Harvard grad who is now a privacy advocate.
http://www.katherinealbrecht.com/
She was recently on Coast2CoastAM is how I found out about her.
It’s free to sign up and use, but they limit the amount of emails you can keep in a free account.
Also, if you don’t sign in for three weeks the account is locked and you have to buy a subscription to get it back.
If you get a subscription you can keep a large number of emails in your account.
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