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Add to SafariWhen comparing Mailpile vs Tutanota Mail, the Slant community recommends Tutanota Mail for most people. In the question“What are the best free and open source email providers for Linux?” Tutanota Mail is ranked 1st while Mailpile is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Tutanota Mail is:
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
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Pros
Pro Beautiful UI
Uncluttered, highly intuitive, easy to use user interface.
Pro Built-in rock-solid and easy-to-use encryption
Mailpile offers support for OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption and signatures in an easy to use manner.
Pro Theme support
The underlying architecture of Mailpile allows for themes that not only change the visual aesthetic of the client, but layout as well allowing for different UX designs.
Pro Secure
Encryption is turned on by default.
Pro Portable
The whole webmail client can be carried around on your external device (such as a USB stick) and used without having admin access to install.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under AGPL.
Pro Good documentation
Pro Fast, scalable search engine
The search engine is at the very center of Mailpile. It was specifically designed to be able to handle large amount of e-mails without grinding the machine to a halt.
Additionally, the search includes a tagging feature that can automatically organize new mail by set rules or bayesian classifiers.
Pro Plugin architecture
Pro Internationalization support
Mailpile is available in over 40 languages.
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
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.
