Hopefully, I can shed some light because I’m in the process of looking for a new email provider so I’ve been researching extensively for the past few days.

Firstly, despite their strong marketing about privacy and encryption, ALL the privacy-focused email providers face the same fundamental limitation when it comes to incoming emails from external sources:

• They can read incoming external emails upon arrival.
• They process these emails (for spam filtering, etc.) before encryption.
• Only after this processing do they encrypt the emails for storage.

It’s a limitation inherent to the current email infrastructure and affects virtually all email providers as far as I’m aware.

So, marketing claims about “zero-access encryption” often refer to emails at rest (in storage), not during transit or initial processing. For truly private communication, end-to-end encryption (like PGP) needs to be implemented by the sender before the email reaches any server.

That being said, Mailbox provides E2E encryption through standard PGP and S/MIME protocols, allowing users to encrypt both incoming and outgoing emails with their own encryption keys that can be generated or imported into the system. Beyond email encryption, they implement domain security and server-side encryption of all stored data, with the option to create secure aliases that only communicate over encrypted connections.

For Mailbox users communicating with other Mailbox users, there isn’t an automatic E2E system in place by default (like Proton has). Doesn’t matter to me because very little people I communicate with use Mailbox (it’s currently the same situation with Proton for me).

You could register anonymously, use a VPN, and encrypt your messages with PGP and be safe that way. I, however, consider emails inherently unsafe means of communication and use them for registrations and meaningless communication only.

Also, Mailbox has Guard feature that creates a temporary mailbox for recipients without PGP. The recipient receives two emails - one with a link to the temporary mailbox and another with the password. You can also add an additional PIN for extra security that you communicate through another channel.

P. S. Their servers are powered by 100% renewable energy, if that carries any weight.

I use Librewolf. The comment was meant as info for those who think that having uBlock as a base still holds significance in light of Manifest v3.

Has the same limitations as uBlock Origin with Manifest v3 and won’t work in Chrome.

Exhaustive research was conducted on an impressive sample size of… one single device.

…and the provided details are astounding.

Subscribed. 🍻

KDE - I love to tinker and own my DE. 😎

Ventoy ⬆️⬆️⬆️

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brutal!

Sure there was. Backlash and bad publicity for one. This way they do it in small digestible bites.

Check it out. 🚀

There was a bit of wiggling to set it up - you’ve to allow firewalls on both PCs to allow it to pass through.

First time I hear of Sorcerer, but it sounds awfully similar to this French classic.

I use Deskflow. It’s an upstream for Synergy. I’ve Tumbleweed and Mac connected. Buttons can be mapped to avoid difference in keyboard layouts and streamline the experience. Been happy with it. 🙂

This. AntennaPod ♥

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I just found out from another thread that Fennec is alive. When DivestOS went under, Fennec was pronounced dead too (that was when I migrated to IronFox) .

However, it seems someone continued maintenance. Does anyone have more details?

It was. I was using it for a year or two until a couple of months ago when it seemed abandoned. Moved to IronFox in the meantime.

Good to hear it’s up and running. Thanks!

Edit: I remember what and how: When DivestOS went under, Fennec did too. Don’t know who’s this who continued.

Did Fennec resurrect?

Trump’s choices are keeping the American dream alive. Too bad L. Ron ain’t alive. 😁

Don’t take it to heart, bro. I saw people downwoting for an honest “thanks”. 😄

That’s okay. Means privacy isn’t your primary concern.