I'm actually a customer of Tutanota, and their product has been pretty good in the last ~2 years I've used it.
Short of hosting your own email, I can't think of other email providers as secure as tutanota. They tick off a lot of boxes: open source, hosted in Germany, encrypted mailboxes, DKIM/DMARC support...
The only feature that might give people pause is that their search functionality isn't great. I have pretty low volume of emails to my personal inbox so it doesn't matter, but it might be frustrating to use as a work inbox.
Also a customer since a few years. Working with domains is a breeze. I also think the calendar and contact list are perfect features to place behind encryption.
This recent downtime issue is basically the only reliability problem I can even recall having experienced with Tutanota, so they seem to be getting more and more attention.
Seldom need search, but it is very basic and slow. I tend to work around that by using folders for e.g. senders, topics. Most (all?) collab functions are available within a single account between subusers (like an organization). Collaboration between independent Tutanota customers would be a nice addition.
Just playing with the thought of improving or implementing these _few_ features I've mentioned quickly turns into a pit of snakes. A cryptographic and engineering challenge.
So instead, I trust Tutanota to work on what's important, thoughtfully paced. Not too fast like my chaotic mind.
I like Tutanota much more (except for the last week) for a few reasons. The ones that come to mind include email search, more affordable pricing, and more flexible domain allowances. Also, they tend to roll out new features on a faster timeline, such as the recent addition of a new domain verification method that few providers currently support (that I forgot the name of?) and an in-app calendar.
> We have long wanted to publish a status page. However, as a privacy-first email service, we cannot use Google services to host a status page (like most services do).
The fact that a status page is not reachable would itself imply the status of the service whose status it reports, no? Especially since visiting the status page is not normally done unless someone is having problems with the service.
Not really; part of the point of a status page is that it lets you distinguish between "their service is down" and "the route between me and their service is down".
I don’t know if we will get a report as to what happened, but Tutanota is frequently used for…perhaps not entirely legal transactions. (Not that I would ever do such a thing, perish the thought.) I wonder if they made the wrong person/drug syndicate angry…
They supply a steady stream of spammers and phishing gangs with email addresses to use when signing up for email sending services. We blocked their domains entirely because it is all garbage.
>We are very sorry about this ongoing outage. We are working on fixing this. While someone wants to stop you from using encrypted emails, we are committed to not let that happen. Thank you very much for your patience and for weathering this storm with us.
Weird fb quirk that I never noticed, if you click on the link it goes to the post. Then if I click ‘go back’ it doesn’t go back here, it opens the fb front page. Then I click ‘go back’ again and I’m here. They somehow Load the front page and then direct me to the post so quickly I don’t notice it when I’m going to the post. I’m on iOS Safari...
They've been down most of the day in North America. I've been using the service for about a year or so, without any problems but they have had at least some down time almost every day for the last few weeks. How common is it for botnet attacks like this to last so long?
I have often found that organizations (government or private) have no idea how to configure privacy for their FB announcements so there is no way to view public content without logging in, even if it is ordinarily available to anyone with a FB account.
Short of hosting your own email, I can't think of other email providers as secure as tutanota. They tick off a lot of boxes: open source, hosted in Germany, encrypted mailboxes, DKIM/DMARC support...
The only feature that might give people pause is that their search functionality isn't great. I have pretty low volume of emails to my personal inbox so it doesn't matter, but it might be frustrating to use as a work inbox.