I’ve thinking about purchasing Proton Mail Plus only and just only to have IMAP support, but I’ve looked all the features that the Proton Unlimited Plan have, and honestly I believe it’s worth, but I hate having all the eggs in the same basket.

The features I believe worth the most are the 500GB storage, IMAP support, all the VPN servers with P2P and unlimited SimpleLogin aliases, but when I ask if it is worth the price I mean, the majority of those features I can have them having individually with others services and even at lower price.

  • capital
    12•2 months ago

    My oldest email account is from late 2008 and I’ve used a grand total of 2.04GB. I say this just to demonstrate how much storage email really needs.

    Proton Unlimited - $120/yr, comes with:

    • 500 GB storage
    • 15 email addresses
    • 3 custom email domains
    • VPN
    • ProtonPass

    Alternatives:

    Email: Fastmail: $60/yr

    • 50 GB of storage
    • 600 aliases
    • 100 domains
    • Included static site web hosting

    Storage:

    • Wasabi: $7/TB/Mo and more flexible since it’s S3 and there are tons of tools for S3.

    Password manager:

    • Bitwarden: $10/yr

    The only one I have trouble with is VPN. A while back I would have said Mullvad but unfortunately they don’t do port forwarding anymore so not so great for P2P.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
      5•2 months ago

      Can you recommend wasabi storage personally?

      I never heard of it and I’ve been shopping for a cloud backup.

      • capital
        3•2 months ago

        Yeah, I use it personally.

        It’s where my restic backup goes and I’ve had 0 issues.

        I’m considering switching to B2 since I think it would be a little cheaper but I haven’t used that.

    • /home/pineapplelover
      3•2 months ago

      I don’t know if fastmail is an appropriate comparison as it isn’t e2ee and if you’re getting proton unlimited, you’re probably gonna go for the 2-year plan, which is cheaper, at $7.99/month ($95.88/year).

      • capital
        3•2 months ago

        I had protonmail for a few years. Guess how many e2e encrypted emails I sent.

        You can also get encryption in Fastmail by using something like Mailvelope.

        • /home/pineapplelover
          4•2 months ago

          At least proton doesn’t have access to the emails. Also, I actually have used it. This one time this dr asked me to send medical stuff to their yahoo mail. I was like hell no let me send you the password to my encrypted email.

          • capital
            3•2 months ago

            Oh, that isn’t the encryption feature I was thinking of. You’re talking about a password protected email, not E2EE, though that may technically be E2EE.

            That’s super shitty of your doc by the way, but you already know that.

            I have used the password protected email feature before, once, in the few years I used Proton.

            I’ve also sent password protected .zip files with 7-zip.

            It just doesn’t come up that often and there are other ways around it. And for E2EE, I have Mailvelope.