When comparing Tutanota Mail vs Posteo, the Slant community recommends Posteo for most people. In the question“What are the best email service providers?” Posteo is ranked 1st while Tutanota Mail is ranked 2nd.
Specs
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Pros
Pro End to end encryption
End-to-end encrypted:
- internal emails (between Tutanota users)
- external emails: requires setting a password and sharing it separately to the recipient
- calendar
- contacts
- email storage
- email subject lines
Pro Open source
See here.
Pro Based in Germany
Tutanota's servers are located in Germany, which has strict privacy protection laws, even stronger than those of Switzerland.
Pro Anonymous: no personal information and no phone numbers are required to register
Pro F-Droid app
Pro No offices in the USA
Pro Free
A free account is available.
Pro Add free
Pro Desktop client
Pro U2F for second factor authentication
Pro Affordable price for paid plans
Pro Numerous feature/advantages
Pro No ads
Posteo is ad-free with no ads when using their email services.
Pro Support for IMAP/SMTP
Posteo supports email clients such as Thunderbird and Claws Mail which will allow for greater control over encryption and user's private keys.
Pro No Personal Information required to register
Registration through VPN is allowed and no personal information is required, just a username and password.
Pro Very secure
Posteo does very well on Dismail's server list and it supports end-to-end encryption with PGP. This can be done in the browser or with an email client, and Posteo has a help section on how to set up encryption.
Pro Inbound encryption
You can select an option to encrypt inbound email from their server with a user-provided GPG key.
Pro Encrypted storage
You can select an option to encrypt all of your emails stored on their servers.
Cons
Con No support for third-party clients (eg Thunderbird...)
Con Doesn't support PGP encryption
Con No support for IMAP and SMTP
You can't use your favorite email client.
Con No custom domains
