[Users] Best free e-mail service that works with Claws Mail by POP3

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Reading their "news", posteo looks very good. I guess I need to get my act together and figure out how to set up DNSSEC/DANE on my server. I have every anti-spoofing feature just short of DANE working. 

To elaborate a bit, the Posteo Web interface will indicate if the mail comes from a DANE enabled server. (DANE prevents DNS spoofing. )

In addition, Posteo can force TLS. ‎Most email serves are set up so that the incoming mail "may" be encrypted, but this is not forced. Now I am assuming Posteo bounces any message where TLS wasn't available. Note there is this man in the middle attack knows as TLS Stripping that interferes with TLS in a way to force the email server to choose plain text if the "may" option is set. 

On paper, Posteo looks very good.

The darling of the not-free email these days supposedly is Proton Mail. 

I so want to say for the record that I don't like email services that provide a web interface. The problem is these kind of security features don't exist on an email client. 

I joined the claws list initially to see if there was a way to make Claws check SPF and DKIM. That would be a great feature, also with displaying if TLS was used. This is not trivial since email headers have much variety.

  Original Message  
From: Michael
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2016 2:19 AM
To: users at lists.claws-mail.org
Subject: Re: [Users] Best free e-mail service that works with Claws Mail by POP3

I'm using GMX accounts since many years, and yes, they got some amount of SPAM, but they have good custom SPAM filtering feature in their web interface, and anyway claws is good with that too ... aside from that, GMX works just fine in every respect.

It's a German company, but because of their many connections to the USA (one big data center in Kansas, GMX owns mail.ocm from Philadelphia, PSI-USA of LAs Vegas, and the UK/USA sedo.com, and parent company United Internet has subsidiary in the USA too [see wikipedia United_Internet] ) i don't entrust them with private mail anymore. I switched to small startup posteo.de which is 1 buck / month but puts a lot of effort into privacy and security. 
I believe there is no "free" (as in beer) email provider who does not store, profile, and market your data. Especially not google.

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