Best email provider?

[Yeni78]

Is there any email provider now that is based on tor? I saw some before but I havent tried it.

[ForgottenPassword]

Is there any email provider now that is based on tor? I saw some before but I havent tried it.

There was once tormail but that had a problematic faith, it was hosted on a server that also hosted kiddy porn sites so it was attacked by the FBI.

Due to the way email works running an email server on a Tor hidden service is pointless as the IP of the server or a gateway server has to be known in order to receive email.

You can use Tor with almost any email provider including gmail.

[mckim0012]

Create an anonymous email using tor in gmail how would they know it was you? Or better start using bit message.

[rokkyroad]

Hard to beat Gmail if only for their excellent 2FA. 2FA sms is invaluable to me and it should be to you too. Nothing worse than getting your email or exchange accounts hacked when you are dabbling with btc and altcoins.

Find me another email service with 2FA as good as Gmail's.

[DrG]

IMO gmail is the best. Google has proven to be very reliable, very innovative and has a corporate motto of "do no evil"

Oh God, thanks for the laugh....ahh that was good.  That might have been Google's motto in 1999.  Nowadays I see them and Apple as the corporate behemoths who cowtoe to the US gov.

While email isn't ever secure with encryption, I trust Outlook with my privacy a little more.

For safety nothing is easier than Google 2FA though - a must have for exchanges.

[NapoleonBonaparte]

Create an anonymous email using tor in gmail how would they know it was you? Or better start using bit message.

They may not allow you to use tor when registering.

Let us know if you are able to get this done.

[Wooden Plate]

bitmessage is really good, gmail, mail, yahoo but you wont get anonimity  with these

[Shattered]

Buy a domain, buy a offshore vps or offshore hosting or use a spare pc in your home and become the email provider yourself.

If you buy a VPS, you need to trust the company hosting it.

I would NEVER trust anyone other than me to handle my privacy and neither should you, you should always use PGP to encrypt private emails and do the encryption on your PC (not using your providers server-side tools).

The email provider I use is https://unseen.is
They are based out of and hosted in Iceland and are OK although they lack the functionality of using "+" aliases in email addresses. I PGP encrypt anything sensitive so I do not need to trust them - the main driving factor behind choosing them was the cool domain...  

Since there are various PGP software providers to choose from (GoAnywhere, Gpg4win etc)
Do you have a few you could recommend?  

[DubFX]

Gmail is fine for me, just use two-factor auth. and you should be safe.

[botany]

Do people use hushmail?

[badykvik]

Gmail is fine for me

[serje]

I have my personal blackberry address

[negafen]

Gmail still the best.

[iluvbitcoins]

Do people use hushmail?

yes, if they don't want to be spied

[Watoshi-Dimobuto]

I'm using countermail. https://countermail.com

We are using a strong encryption protocol called OpenPGP, with 4096 bits encryption keys to protect your data. To the best of publicly available information, there is no known method which will allow a person or group to break OpenPGP:s encryption by cryptographic or computational means.

[ForgottenPassword]

I'm using countermail. https://countermail.com

We are using a strong encryption protocol called OpenPGP, with 4096 bits encryption keys to protect your data. To the best of publicly available information, there is no known method which will allow a person or group to break OpenPGP:s encryption by cryptographic or computational means.

This is useless. You are still relying on their word that they are actually encrypting your messages and not saving the original before encrypting it. There is no way you can know they don't do this without doing the encryption yourself.

You can PGP encrypt it on your PC before sending and eliminate this risk entirely - you can do this with ANY mail provider - no need to pay countermail for something you can't be sure they actually do.

Since there are various PGP software providers to choose from (GoAnywhere, Gpg4couwin etc)
Do you have a few you could recommend?  

From what I understand those are just frontends, most of these use GnuPG as a backend which is the de-facto standard:

https://gnupg.org/

GnuPG is a command-line tool, so if you find it difficult to use you might want to install a frontend too or an email client that has plugins for it like thunderbird.

Frontends:
https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/frontends.html

thunderbird plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/enigmail/

[madken7777]

Privacy is only needed for crook and people who deem important enough. Most users don't fit into this category.

You are an idiot.

I can read, so I assure you I am not an idiot.

[ForgottenPassword]

Privacy is only needed for crook and people who deem important enough. Most users don't fit into this category.

Not true.

Most people (like you) don't deem privacy important enough until its too late and your privacy has been violated in a very bad way. Once it happens to you you'll understand why privacy is incredibly important.

It's similar to health. There are a lot of people who do not care much about their health until they get very sick - then they realize your health is more important than anything else.

[leepsteer00]

I prefer Gmail. Although sometimes I prefer the interface of Outlook's web app (Hotmail).

[dadugan]

For people who use gmail, don't forget you are giving up your privacy for free service.