Looking to leave GMAIL and am currently testing Proton for a $1 a month. So far it’s pretty good and the issue I have is not with Proton, but with who I’m sending messages to. If I send an email to a gmail account my information is still sitting on a Google server. So is Proton worth it? Is something like Fastmail just as good over all due to how email works? With Fastmail I can get email for my whole family for $14 a month. I won’t have the VPN, ProtonPASS and other Proton apps, but are they worth the $12 a month for one person?
You dont know how the sender or recipient handles your mail, but handling your own with encryption is still a good practice.
An email provider can have an entire database of all your emails (e.g. Google with Gmail), which more valuable than individual people or companies having access to only a few related ones.
There’s also PGP support with some providers, so you could set-up encrypted emailing with people if that’s important to you.
Either way, getting away from the big providers is a good move, I’d at least want my inbox encrypted though, like Proton or others do.
Fully encrypted email should have been made standard a long time ago.