What other free options are out there? Proton Mail’s free plan restricts to only 3 folders.
EDIT: After careful discussion with others, I’ve reluctantly decided to stick to Gmail, because we don’t know if these other providers will still be around 50 years from now.
I am leaving Tuta because they keep putting ads in my inbox and labelling them news.
Their own encryption technology is kind of useless because impractical. However I don’t want to judge whether it’s secure or not. You can only send encrypted messages to other tuta users. No pgp / smime support. If you want to send someone without tuta an encrypted message, they will send them an email with a link where they can enter a password you have agreed on. So if you want to communicate with officials, banks, companies etc. you will always disable it. Also those encrypted messages will never be deleted as one might be able to access it via the link later. This causes your ‘free’ storage to fill up with old garbo.
Tuta is most likely a honeypot, and in any case it is pseudo-open source so it’s offtopic in this community.
Oh my gosh, thanks for the heads-up. I had no idea!
For fairness, here is Tuta’s response to the allegations: https://tuta.com/blog/tutanota-not-a-honeypot
There really is no way to verify that any email service isn’t a honeypot. Even if you open source your server code, that doesn’t mean it’s what’s actually running on the server. They could publish served code then be running totally different code on their servers with no way to tell.
Tuta’s biggest weaknesses for me right now are the seeming lack of independent audits and the lack of interoperability for encryption. Proton is the biggest competitor and seems to have both. However, Proton has grown more in the way that a honeypot would, adding VPN, cloud storage, password manager, etc, so more data collection points. Tuta is still email, contacts, and calendar.