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What is your email platform ?

Thomas Bnt on March 09, 2020

What do you use as an email platform? What are their pros and cons? What do you think about privacy? Is it so important for you? _ I use Pro...

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Raul • Mar 9 '20

I'm using GMail, mostly because of their website, it's by far the best I've ever tried.

It's easy to use, has a clean interface, it's fast, I think that it just works for most users, and the tabs are amazing, they don't mislabel a single mail.

At work we use Outlook, I hate that thing every time I open it 🤬

Thomas Bnt • Mar 9 '20

I never appreciate Outlook 😣

rhymes • Mar 9 '20

I'm waiting for Basecamp/37signals to release their product, hopefully it's good and with encryption. If it's not, I'll just use Proton 👍🏾

DHH

@dhh

The first brand-new product from us at Basecamp in many years is coming this April: An email service (not a client) built for people who both love and hate email. We'll fix the hate, and leave you with the love. Email is amazing, and it deserves our best. hey.com

18:33 PM - 06 Feb 2020

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Ben Sinclair • Mar 11 '20

I really don't like Basecamp as a product. I think it gets just about everything wrong.

I'd still give their email a quick go to see if it's decent - but I'd be wary they'd make it do something like not support attachments in the name of simplicity though.

Thomas Bnt • Mar 9 '20

I'm very curious about hey.com 🤔

Ben Sinclair • Mar 11 '20

I've been wondering about using something like Proton for a while. Might get a free account and try it for a while.
I have to use gmail at work and so I kind of use it as my personal platform too by default. I'd prefer to be out of that ecosystem though.

Very interested to see what other people have tried.

Thomas Bnt • Mar 11 '20 • Edited

I have been using ProtonMail for several years as written in the post, and I am very satisfied! Moreover, if you want to go further, you can forward your emails received on your GMail to your ProtonMail address.

Settings ▶️ Forwarding and POP/IMAP ▶️ Forwarding

Good day!

Ben Halpern • Mar 9 '20

I use gmail but would be happy to switch eventually. We use several other Google products, so I'm a bit locked in for convenience, but I'd also be happy to take us in a different direction there too.

Thomas Bnt • Mar 9 '20

Thanks for your response ! I really appreciate that ! 😊

I took a looong time before I could switch to ProtonMail at 100%. Obviously I still have my Google account, it is not possible to delete it, since all of my application history is synchronized from their service.

Simple example: YouTube and Google Console Dev.