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Email

Email is one of the most essential forms of communication on the internet. Althrough it is not relied as much as it was before, you still need an email address just to make an account on most services.

Email services

Email Provider	Free?	Privacy score	Notes	Final Grade
uq.ci	Yes	10	N/A	10
cock.li	Yes	10	New users are required to do a proof-of-work challenge to be able to send mail.	10
cock.lt	Yes	10	Registrations disabled temporarily.	10
pissmail.com	Yes	10	One account per IP	10
riseup.net	Yes	10	Invite required	9.50
tuta.io	Yes	10	Account must go through manual verification.	9
namecrane.com	25 EUR/yr for 100GB	9.50	Crypto payments are supported.	9
protonmail.com	Yes	9	You sometimes, in order to prevent abuse, have to provide them with an email that is from another provider.	8.50
mailbox.org	1 EUR/mo cheapest plan	7	Crypto payments are not supported (yet) and you must pay for your inbox with a credit card.	8

Selfhosting your email

If you don't like any of the providers above, you might want to host your own Email server. THere are numerous all-in-one solutions for the job, listed below:

Name	Minimum requirements	Reccomended Requirements	Notes
Docker Mailserver	512mb of ram w/o ClamAV	2GB of ram	This is a pretty simple, no-bullshit docker image that runs all you need to get the ball rolling with an email server.
Mailcow	6GB of ram	N/A	Mailcow features a very nice UI for everything related to administering your own little Email server. Very welcoming for beginners. Uses Docker
Mail in a box	512mb of ram	1GB of ram	Kinda like mailcow but everything is ran on the system. You however have to dedicate a box to it and use Ubuntu 22.04.
Luke Smith's emailwiz	~512MB	N/A	A stupidly simple email setup script.

Is it a good idea to selfhost your email?

Depends. If you value your time you should probably just use a well estabilished service, as IP reputation is a pain in the rear end.