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Nowadays, email is a key tool. In this page, I offer a large overview of my setup, exploration, and so on.
Email is basically made of three things: a provider, a client and a bunch of tools. In many instances, the frontier between those three things is blurry.
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Providers
| Provider | Technology | Recommend | Self-assessed knowledge | Why? | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iCloud | IMAP | No | 5 | Silently discard emails | Silently discard some “spam” emails, and the support cannot retrieve them |
| Gmail | Gmail | No | 4 | Privacy and non-standard | Non-standard technology + perfect if you want your emails to be read by Google |
| Outlook.com | Exchange | No | 3 | Non-standard | Non-standard technology (Exchange) |
| Office 365 | Exchange | Yes | 4 | Great for collaboration | Overkilling if you just need one email address |
| Gandi | IMAP | No | 4 | Bad deliverability | Some of their servers are blacklisted, which means your emails can be received as “spam” |
| FastMail | IMAP | No | 5 | Great service, but the anti-spam is a disaster | Despite being in touch with the support, I couldn’t get a working anti-spam |
| G Suite | Gmail | No | 4 | See below |
For G Suite: YouTube (owned by Google) is a platform for hate speech against LGBTQ people and I don’t want my money to support this kind of company.