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<< What is the best email service to use?

Ideally, in the interests of privacy and security, it would be best to host your own email server using fully open-source, free-as-in-freedom software, but since that isn't always possible, here are a number of email services commonly recommended by /tech/:

• cock.li
  American-based email provider hosted by a fellow /tech/nician. Hosts 8ch's email addresses, and has a wide variety of email addresses (albeit most of them not safe for work) to choose from.
• OpenMailBox
  French-based email provider. Runs completely on libre software with anonymizing and privacy protecting features.
• Mailoo
  French email provider. Explicitly states it runs on free software.
• Posteo
  German-based email provider. Fully LibreJS compliant with anonymizing and privacy protecting features. 1€/month
• ProtonMail
  Swiss-based email provider. Hosted in retired military bunkers, features anonymizing features and automatically expiring email messages.

Hosting my own email server interests me. How can I go about doing that?

You can find more on how to set up a mail server with GNU/Linux at
https://archive.is/0dcAN (https://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/email/?intcmp=bcm_edmsept_007)