CraneMail EU Has Been Erected - Lifetime Deals Now in Amsterdam
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Our European location for CraneMail is (finally) live. All EU plans will be provisioned in our new Amsterdam, NL datacenter. (Image)

This service is run by online buddies of mine who ran VPS hosting for a long time. I expect it to be pretty good, though I’m not currently using it. mxroute.com is also around and comparable, though I think it is only sited in the US for now. Cranemail also has a US location.

Posting because people have been asking about non-Google email. I’m not connected with the company, I just know some of the guys running it. They have an affiliate program that I haven’t signed up for, though maybe I should ;). The above link is non-affiliated.

Edit: link is from May 2025, not brand new, still works.

  • Novi Sad@feddit.org
    4·
    16 days ago

    They’re still an American company. Better than Google, for sure, but the CLOUD Act means that when the US demands all your email, they will get it – even if the servers are located in Europe.

    • solrize@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      14 days ago

      I contacted Cranemail and they are a US company registered in Wyoming. Oh well. I think leaving your email on someone else’s server isn’t really the right way to do it anyway. It’s gotten very difficult to self-host SMTP, but self-hosting IMAP isn’t too bad, or you can just regularly pull and delete your email from a hosted IMAP, transferring it into your own and possibly making an encrypted backup.

    • solrize@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      16 days ago

      I think the company is Canadian but I haven’t checked. BuyVM was defnitely Canadian and was run by the same guy. You have to assume that email is never private anyway, since the person at the other end probably is on gmail, may have used CrapGPT, and so on.

      • Novi Sad@feddit.org
        2·
        16 days ago

        Hm, interesting. The website at least doesn’t look to me like it’s Canadian:

        Of course it could still be, and email privacy is of course endangered by many other things. However, if someone does go through the hassle of shifting everything to a different email account, I would say best make sure to get a good distance from the US right off the bat.