OT: Best way to send e-mails to a recipient that does know encryption

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Tue Jan 2 15:23:28 CET 2024


On Dienstag, 2. Januar 2024 12:16:15 CET LuKaRo wrote:
> > I do not want to use Gmail to send that kind of informations and I'm
> > comtemplating using posteo.de.
> > 
> > Is this any better?
> 
> I'd argue of course it's better. Google openly admits reading your
> e-mail, so other mail providers that respect your privacy should be
> preferred. I particularly like posteo.de, because the 1€/month fee is
> still very cheap but makes clear that they have a different business
> model that doesn't involve customer data. Furthermore, they deploy a
> very sophisticated solution that makes it technically impossible to
> match payment data or IP addresses to mailboxes, and even fought (and
> won!) a lawsuit against the German authorities that wanted to force
> posteo to hand out customer data (which they don't even collect).

Posteo will release data to authorities if they are forced to do so by a 
judicial order. See their transparency reports for details:
https://posteo.de/en/site/transparency_report

I'm still using Posteo.

Regards,
Ingo
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