Email Providers

Fastmail treats email as long-lived infrastructure — prioritising open standards, portability, and operational trust over encryption maximalism or lock-in.

Tutanota takes an uncompromising approach to email privacy — encrypting more data, reducing metadata exposure, and accepting real trade-offs in usability to minimise risk in 2026.

Zero-access architecture changes who can read your email by design. This piece explains what it really means, how it differs from standard encryption, and why the trade-offs matter long term.

Email addresses tend to outlive the services behind them. This piece explores why using your own domain for email reduces lock-in, ages better than free inboxes, and gives you long-term control over an identity most people never think to own.

Free email feels effortless, but the real cost often shows up later. This piece explores the hidden trade-offs between free and paid email — from incentives and lock-in to control, privacy, and long-term trust.

StartMail takes a paid-only approach to email, focusing on identity control and clear incentives rather than features or ecosystems. This article explains the trade-offs that follow.

Proton Mail isn’t built around features or marketing promises, but around limiting what the provider itself can see. This article explains how that model works, what it protects, and the trade-offs it makes explicit.

Email forwarding in HEY works differently than many expect. Here’s why issues happen, what authentication has to do with it, and what users should know.