Is it good? Are there any better alternatives?
Killed my account bc they didn’t feel I used it enough. F’em…
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They seem to delete it after 6 months of inactivity
It costs real world money to keep that data. tbf i don’t think you would find a service that does not delete inactive accounts. iirc when i did a market survey to find a new email address basically all free providers didn’t guarantee keeping your data if the account is free and inactive.
Same
My opinion on tuta: Can I use thunderbird? No? Goodbye.
There are many alternatives, but given that I haven’t switched from a trash free one as I don’t want to spend money for just having a mail server, it would be hypocritical to recommend any.
Payed for 5 years, but now I’m in the progress of migrating to a “regular” mailservice. Problems I have with tuta: The client has become super slow in recent months, it seems to get worse and worse. Notifications don’t arrive or arrive too late (Android). No other way than to use it with their clients. No offline support (or at least it doesn’t work for me). UI/UX isn’t that great either.
Would you recommend it as a secondary service?
Depends on your needs. It’s reasonable for mails you don’t need instantly or offline, but at the same time should be encrypted at rest. I don’t know if there is a new pricing model now, but I have paid 1€ a month, so basically nothing. If you don’t mind the downsides and encryption is important to you, it’s a very fair price I think.
Ive lost two accounts due to being inactive on them so I kinda gave up trying
Posteo is the gold standard for me. They are absolutely solid in terms of values while making no big fuss about their (excellent) work - other than Tuta and Proton.
I just swapped from proton to mailbox.org and I considered tuta heavily.
I chose mailbox over tuta because:
- tuta didn’t allow third party clients like thunderbird. Given I jumped to proton from Gmail and now mailbox from proton, I wanted to decouple as many systems as possible if I had to jump again.
- mailbox, if I’m remembering correctly, had better encryption properties except for their calendar. Tuta has an encrypted calendar, and now I’m looking into a self-hosted calendar system.
I think I would still recommend tuta to like my mother or something because it’s very clean and easy to set up and good enough. I’d recommend mailbox.org as a slightly harder alternative if you care about your calendar being encrypted.
I paid for it for years but it’s just too limited. Inbox rules suck. Tags technically exist but are half baked.
Searching your tuta inbox is terrible. By default it sets the search window to a few days, and searching your entire inbox takes (not exaggerating) ~1000x as long as any other provider I’ve used. Where I expect a few seconds it takes tens of minutes to search a time window of ~1 month which for me might be ~1000 emails total.
I like it
paid for a year a while back when they had some discount. will not renew.
like others have said:
- no standard protocols support to use other clients and their clients are shit
- no client improvement in the last year
- their pricing buckets are weird and the price per gigabyte is too high
it’s a niche product. if e2ee is the primary goal, that’s fine. it’s not what most people want/need. as far as I see it, we lack a good service with no tracking/mining and tuta is just too much limiting.
It’s slow as hell to load and as the other commenter said search is horribly slow. I’m not even exaggerating when I say I spent an hour waiting to load an email from a year or two ago.
I use them, and recommend them. Full E2EE is my number one requirement - after learning what can be done with just metadata.
Lack of 3rd party clients doesn’t bother me.
That they allow integration with your phone’s contacts app is a big win - Proton don’t allow that.
