Query For The Wiki-Beeb: Proton Mail, Anyone Use It?

I want to switch away from Gmail to a paid-for private
email with sufficient extra email addresses and enough
storage. Their top-level package is $8-10 depending on
how you pay for it and seems to have what I need, plus.
Just want to know if it all works as well as they say.
Also looking to create a few free backup accounts so
I could use info on any companies similar to Proton Mail
that offer a free basic account. I want to get away from all of
my old email accounts where I am the product they sell.
Plus I just got a new laptop and I want to keep the trash
out of it while syncing selected files with my desktop that
is getting old and starting to do odd things occasionally.
This is a life and death situation so don't let me down Wiki-Beeb.

 

I’ve had their basic package for a few years. Does the job. I’m an extremely basic user of proton so I dunno how much usage experience would suffice. It’s never been down I tried to use it.

 

Grab a second gmail account and alias it. [email protected] and then alias it as [email protected]. All emails flow to myemail and you can tell which email was sold based on the alias added after the + sign. Change the alias each time to easily track the source of spam. I use this all the time.

 

Email from ProtonMail often gets flagged as spam/malware/phishing ... so if its important communications I would pick something else.

 

Speaking of Proton Mail - they are releasing a desktop app. If you are top-tier premium subscriber you can use the Beta now, but if not everyone else will get it early '24.

 

Pay for email??? Next you'll be expecting me to pay for porn!

 

Dunno if it's work or personal for you but 10+ years, we've been really happy here;

https://www.rackspace.com/applications/email-productivity

https://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/pricing