Posteo.de - E-mail service. How good?

[David]

Originally Posted by William9

The service provider should have privacy policies that protect the customer as much as good business practices and the law will allow.

Where in the law does it say that companies have to store users personal information, before they can provide them with an email account?

As far as your other requirements go I do agree with them. Posteo (the company we were discussing when this subject came up) meets all of them.

[Tsunami]

Originally Posted by FredOnline

IMHO, this last paragraph makes the previous ones irrelevant.

From what you've posted previously - over the years - I would have thought you would be best using your own domain, and having a LOCAL archive back-up of your e-mails, instead of relying on storing them online.

When refering to a local archive, you mean like in MS Outlook where you can save your emails on the hard drive?

One thing to keep into account though: your own domain name's forwarding email address can be used, but when you reply to the emails received your true email address (like ...@mail.com) will show. The receiver may store that email address and only have used your forwarding address with own domain the very first time email traffic came into being. By the time you have to change mailbox, they may have forgotten about your own domain's email address and keep emailing the address the "forwarding address" was initially forwarding to.

[FredOnline]

Originally Posted by Tsunami

When refering to a local archive, you mean like in MS Outlook where you can save your emails on the hard drive?

I wasn't thinking of MS Outlook, more like MailStore Home.

I use that program on a weekly basis, to back-up my e-mails locally - I've set up a calendar event for every Saturday just to remind me.

Originally Posted by Tsunami

One thing to keep into account though: your own domain name's forwarding email address can be used, but when you reply to the emails received your true email address (like ...@mail.com) will show.

In Posteo - most probably many other providers too - you can add a "Reply-To:" option to your e-mail address.

For example, my Posteo e-mail address (not my own domain), I have the Reply-To: set to reply to my own domain e-mail address.

Even though someone receives my e-mail that says from "me@posteo", if someone replies to that e-mail, it goes to my own domain e-mail address.

If you have your own domain, why not utilize it?

[mechanic]

(Sorry about late reply but this seems better than new thread)

Posteo.de claims to have in-place spam filters, but there's no way for users to check their operation or tune them. Or have I missed something?

[rockman]

Originally Posted by mechanic

(Sorry about late reply but this seems better than new thread)

Posteo.de claims to have in-place spam filters, but there's no way for users to check their operation or tune them. Or have I missed something?

Correct.

I am enjoying the service. I have most of the encryption features enabled, except the PGP inbound encryption. My mailbox, contacts and calendar are encrypted at rest. They use TLS SMTP connections whenever possible. It is well done.

[David]

After using Posteo for a couple of weeks I decided to go elsewhere. Posteo's service is fine but their web interface (you have a choice of two) just does not cut it. If I was using an IMAP connection (with a client) I would have stayed.

[jeffpan]

Originally Posted by David

After using Posteo for a couple of weeks I decided to go elsewhere. Posteo's service is fine but their web interface (you have a choice of two) just does not cut it. If I was using an IMAP connection (with a client) I would have stayed.

Thanks david for the info.
Is their webmail just native roundcube or customized roundcube?

[jl66]

I think just the opposite: I am not going to change it to another email provider, I am very happy with Posteo after many months, I am only using webmail with encryption (not IMAP or POP to avoid some attacks), with PGP (Mailvelope), and I love they use Dane.
I find it very fast and without problems or disconnections until now.

[jeffpan]

Originally Posted by jl66

I think just the opposite: I am not going to change it to another email provider, I am very happy with Posteo after many months, I am only using webmail with encryption (not IMAP or POP to avoid some attacks), with PGP (Mailvelope), and I love they use Dane.
I find it very fast and without problems or disconnections until now.

what's the advantages by using dane? thanks.

[jl66]

Originally Posted by jeffpan

what's the advantages by using dane? thanks.

http://www.internetsociety.org/deplo...esources/dane/

[jl66]

Emails are encrypted in Posteo (if you choose that option). If some hacker access your account all the emails are encrypted.
IMAP/POP is disabled (if you choose that option), so hackers can´t try throught those ports to hack your account.
You can also choose 2 Factor Autentication and only allow to login with the code you get with your phone app (FreeOTP).
You can use encryption to send/receive emails encrypted to/from some friends using Mailvelope extension and adding your PGP keys. They are used locally and not inside Posteo.
Posteo works very well without problems until now and it´s cheap ($1 monthly), you can add funds everytime you want, or add some more aliases if you want to pay some more cents every month (2 aliases are free), or delete your previous aliases and add new ones.
They are worried about your security and they fight against false or non-necessary requests from authorities.
These are some advantages and why I only use it now. Of course I never use online my main posteo account, only aliases.

[17pm]

Originally Posted by jl66

Emails are encrypted in Posteo (if you choose that option). If some hacker access your account all the emails are encrypted.
IMAP/POP is disabled (if you choose that option), so hackers can´t try throught those ports to hack your account.
You can also choose 2 Factor Autentication and only allow to login with the code you get with your phone app (FreeOTP).
You can use encryption to send/receive emails encrypted to/from some friends using Mailvelope extension and adding your PGP keys. They are used locally and not inside Posteo.
Posteo works very well without problems until now and it´s cheap ($1 monthly), you can add funds everytime you want, or add some more aliases if you want to pay some more cents every month (2 aliases are free), or delete your previous aliases and add new ones.
They are worried about your security and they fight against false or non-necessary requests from authorities.
These are some advantages and why I only use it now. Of course I never use online my main posteo account, only aliases.

I agree with this user. Posteo seems to be a good secure email provider. Roundcube is not the fastest webclient but it's ok. Sadly, they do not support the use of own domains, which is enough to make some potential customers look elsewhere (like me..).

[FredOnline]

Originally Posted by David

After using Posteo for a couple of weeks I decided to go elsewhere. Posteo's service is fine but their web interface (you have a choice of two) just does not cut it. If I was using an IMAP connection (with a client) I would have stayed.

Was it functionality or was the interface not pretty enough?

I think you mentioned previously setting up an own domain with your Posteo account.

Any problems with that?

[David]

I was not able to set up a domain name (it's not allowed) Basically I used forwarding from my domain name registrars and created alias addresses in order to reply.

Both interfaces are pretty much the same but seemed flaky. Sometimes you received nothing - sometimes a blank screen. It seemed pretty random

It is fast and seemed okay otherwise.

you do have to pay upfront (for a year) one Euro a month I think. I let them keep my unused money (though you can get it back) as I do think the service will improve. I will return and check it out in a year or so.

[rockman]

Originally Posted by David

After using Posteo for a couple of weeks I decided to go elsewhere. Posteo's service is fine but their web interface (you have a choice of two) just does not cut it. If I was using an IMAP connection (with a client) I would have stayed.

AFAIK, there is only one interface and you can switch languages between DE and EN. The interface is a customized RoundCube integrating contacts and calendars with CardDAV and CalDAV for syncing with other devices.