[tor-talk] Tor-friendly email provider

[blobby at openmailbox.org]

 From my notes dated May 2016 for Tor-friendly e-mail providers:


Bitmessage.ch - https://bitmessage.ch/

Cock.li - https://cock.li/ (various domains available).

Lelantos: http://lelantoss7bcnwbv.onion/

Mail2Tor: http://mail2tor2zyjdctd.onion/

Mailbox.org - https://mailbox.org/ (30 days free).

ProtonMail - https://protonmail.com/ (wants SMS).

RiseUp - https://help.riseup.net/ (need invite).

RuggedInbox - https://www.ruggedinbox.com/ (unreliable).

Runbox - https://runbox.com/ (usually doesn't work with Tor).

Sigaint - http://sigaint.org/ http://sigaintevyh2rzvw.onion/

Tutanota - https://tutanota.com (48 hours to check you).

Unseen.is - https://www.unseen.is/ (requires secondary e-mail address; 
can be slow to load).

VFEMail - https://vfemail.net/


On 2016-09-23 21:54, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
> On 9/22/2016 1:00 PM, Oskar Wendel wrote:
>> 
>> gmx.com doesn't want me to register: "Your registration could not be
>> processed at the moment. Please try again later."
>> 
>> gmx.net seems to blacklist Tor, too:
>> 
>>     Registrierung leider nicht moglich!
>> 
>>     Sie haben versucht, sich mit der IP-Adresse 77.247.181.162
>>     bei GMX zu registrieren.
>> 
>>     Diese IP-Adresse ist nicht zugelassen.
>> 
>> Whatever it means, but it looks like "you are using Tor, so flick 
>> off".
>> 
>> - From the link provided by nusenu:
>> 
>> Sigaint doesn't allow pop3/smtp unless you buy a pro account, which is
>> quite expensive...
>> 
>> mailbox.org allows only 30 days for free.
>> 
>> riseup.net is the provider I'm using currently, but I'm not happy with
>> it and that's why I'm looking for another one...
>> 
>> mail.ru is in Russian, too... any way to switch to English?
>> 
>> mail2tor, according to the site, is not very reliable.
>> 
>> bitmessage.ch doesn't seem to allow creating custom addresses.
>> 
>> Doesn't look good, maybe it's time to learn Russian...
>> 
> I don't think GMX allows using Tor, but they don't offer anything
> special - as to privacy, security.  They're not a lot different than
> most others - anymore.
> What is it about Riseup that you don't like?  Just curious.  I've not
> used it, but most people seem to like it.
> 
> Unseen.is - located in Iceland is a more privacy conscious provider.
> I've created an acct using TBB in the past.  They don't - or didn't -
> keep logs or store messages after you delete them.
> They offer end to end encryption - between Unseen users, using their
> own app loaded on computers.  They'll keep encrypted messages on their
> server, if you want.  It's proprietary encryption, which some don't
> like (can't be independently tested).  They claim they intentionally
> never have the private key, so no LEAs can force them to decrypt or
> hand over messages.
> 
> I'm not sure that independent testing of encrypton or software is as
> relevant today, if - - avoiding state players is a main concern. For
> protection against _non-government criminals_ (see what I did there?),
> independent testing is important.  Even the largest universities' or
> security firms' resources are tiny compared to the time, money, talent
> and computing power that nations put towards cracking encryption,
> paying for or coercing back doors, or finding exploitable software
> bugs.  I'm sure governments have made huge advances since Snowden's
> papers in 2013, that we probably will never hear about.