Figures, I just purchased an account last week. That’s fine, it’s not that expensive anyway and hopefully this helps more people decide to move from Google, like I’m in the process of doing.
If you want I guess you could send them an email and hope to get the other months for free?
The voucher can be redeemed until 31 May 2025 when registering a new private email account on the Premium or Standard plan. It is entered in the second step of registration and automatically credited with your first payment for a term of 12 months. Instead of paying for 12 months, you only pay for 6! The first month is generally free. A change of plan is only possible after the 12-month term has expired. The voucher is non-refundable, cannot be cashed in, and cannot be transferred to existing accounts
So it’s 50% discount in case anyone wonders. Standard plan is 3€/mo (so I guess €18 for the first year), premium is €9/mo (so i guess €54 for the first year). There is also a lite plan for 1€/mo but then you don’t get a discount.
One of the few mail providers to integrate OpenPGP and also support custom domains.
You can have them encrypt your mail with your public key as soon as it arrives, so that your mailbox is always encrypted.
If you trust them to store your private key, you can use their web interface to decrypt your messages in the browser. Or you can have complete custody of your own keys and use your own external mail client.
You can also turn off mailbox encryption (the default) and just use it as a regular mail provider.
You can have them encrypt your mail with your public key as soon as it arrives, so that your mailbox is always encrypted.
I like the idea, but can’t they read the mail on arrival and before encryption anyway?
They can read them, obviously, but this way they are stored in an encrypted format in case of breaches or warrants.
Yes and no.
AFAIK, warrants in Germany can be issued to monitory communications traffic, so they’d have to copy any new mail in plain for the authorities. But yes, old mail would be secure.
Yes, but this is true of all standard email services. If you want end-to-end encryption then you need to have your correspondent encrypt their message with your public key before sending, as with any E2EE email.
The purpose of encrypting incoming mail is for mail that arrives unencrypted (most mail) so it does not sit in plaintext on their servers.
Wish I’d held off, or this happened sooner. But can’t complain, let’s get more onboard! 🎉🎉🎈
Geil 🤩
