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Do they offer cloud storage now? From what I can see on their web site, it’s 500GB…just for email. I mean sure, that’s cool, but it would take me several lifetimes to accumulate 500GB of email so it’s not much of a selling point to me.

It’s a good email service, anyway. I’ve been using the free tier for a few years. Similar to Proton, and in theory Tuta is more private because they encrypt the headers as well as the message body.

I use their paid tier mostly for custom domains. Tuta gives me 3 custom domains and Proton only offers 1 on their respective base paid plans, so Tuta gets my business.

I don’t think the encryption difference matters all that much, what matters to me is:

  • FOSS clients
  • custom domains (so I can easily switch providers or self-host); I need at least two
  • local decryption

Tuta provides those, Proton doesn’t, and I don’t need the extra features Proton provides, so Tuta gets my money. I just wish Tuta had a few minor more features, like:

  • labels - allegedly in development
  • better calendar sharing - I’d love to sync NextCloud and Tuta calendar automatically
  • reply as Gmail/etc - makes it much easier to switch from other providers, probably nothing they can do though
  • features to make it easier to leave - auto forwards and whatnot

It meets my needs though.

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Reply As is working for me, for custom domains I setup in tuta.

@hersh@literature.cafe
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Great points, thanks.

Can you clarify what you mean by “local decryption”? I thought Proton and Tuta work pretty much the same way, but perhaps there’s a distinction I’m missing.

One thing I like about Tuta is that it has the option to cache your messages in localstorage in your browser so you can do full-text search. FWIW, I think Proton added a similar feature recently, though I have not tried it. I imagine neither would work very well with large mailboxes; probably better to configure a real email client.

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