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[–] superkuh 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago 

Ultimately no centralized email service can be trusted to act in the interest of it's customers. Everyone should run their own email servers and self-host everything. Unfortunately home/residential IP addresses are blacklisted by almost all "pro" email providers so you either have to host on a remote server (I use a VPS) or use a remote sendmail agent like http://ghettosmtp.com/ which provides free outgoing smtp for your home mailserver.

I've been running my own mailserver for almost 5 years now. It was a hassle to set up but what I learned was definitely worth it. And since the first couple months it's run without me touching it at all. A couple times I've been added to the blacklist of big companies. Once by MS's Office365 mailservers. But after I found an internal phone number to call I was able to fix that within a day.

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[–] TheresALOTofWater 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Not everyone can or even wants to run their own mail server. In reality, sometimes you compromise some security for usability. In fact, I would argue that unless people really do their homework and understand how to configure it, they could be more at risk than using a secure email service like protonmail.