Gmail and Outlook are probably the two most popular and used email clients in the world. Are they the only ones? Of course not! There are alternative services that offer easy handling and whose usability can be consolidated as a good option for those people. Who do not want to depend on the features of Google and Microsoft.
Alternatives to Gmail and Outlook
So if you want to be original without losing efficiency, or show off in front of your friends or co-workers because you use a tool they don’t know about, read carefully.
Zoho email
It is an email service with a business vocation: it allows you to obtain a professional email with calendar, tasks, notes and bookmarks, from an integrated interface designed with usability and collaborative work in mind. Zoho mail offers domains for business and enables the option to set up different custom email addresses. The service also offers an encrypted environment, with privacy and without ads.
Zoho mail includes a tool called Streams that, based on a usability inspired by the design of social networks, seeks to replace email chains with an interactive space that allows users to make comments, share files, manage tasks or tag people others. Because, who has not been lost in an endless chain of emails? Furthermore, another interesting and novel option of this email service is that. It allows you to share email drafts so that they can be reviewed before they are sent.
ProtonMail
ProtonMail is a free, end-to-end encrypted, open source email service developed in 2013 by scientists and engineers at CERN. Doesn’t sound bad, right? It is a service design to offer the highest level of security and privacy: the servers are host in Switzerland and to open an account. It is not necessary to provide any personal data.
Privacy is, therefore, the great differential value of ProtonMail: all emails are automatically protect with end-to-end encryption, which means that these emails cannot be share with third parties. At the same time, hosting on Swiss servers develops strict data protection protect by the laws in force in the European country and collect in the most secure data center in Europe.
Although the service is base on guaranteeing privacy in an exhaustive way. The software has also been design to facilitate the experience and usability. It can be use on any device without the need for prior installation and the accounts are compatible with other email providers. In addition, the design is intuitive and integrated. Following the guidelines of the most popular mail servers.
Tutanota
Developed in Germany, this mail service also offers privacy as a differential value: just like ProtonMail, it includes end-to-end encryption. Furthermore, Tutanota is an open source service that can be use on both Android and iOS devices.
Tutanota offers support for custom domains and allows business use based, as the service itself underlines, on “the best security conditions in the world”. In this way, the data store on its servers is encrypt to ensure that it only belongs to the users. In addition, the emails are store on highly secure data servers in Germany power by renewable energy.
GMX
GMX (Global Message Exchange) allows you to quickly, easily and freely create an email address that offers the user an advantage over providers such as Outlook or Gmail: it allows you to attach and send large files (up to 50 MB). In addition, GMX allows you to quickly configure the account to receive emails sent to Gmail and Outlook accounts.
This service currently has more than 20 million users in countries such as Austria, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain and Switzerland. Among its advantages, in addition to the possibility of sending large files, it offers the possibility of encrypting emails with the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) standard makes a mobile service tool available to users from any device and includes integrated tools such as calendar or Mail Collector, to unify all email accounts.
Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is an email client launch in 2003 and develop by the Mozilla Foundation. Which offers a free, open source, cross-platform service. It is a free application and very easy to configure and use.
One of the great advantages of Thunderbird is its wide range of add-ons, extensions, and themes. Which give the service great customization capabilities. When it comes to security and privacy, Thunderbird offers protection against tracking and adds built-in remote content blocking.
