Posteo.de Email Provider Is Down
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Frankly, I am debating alternatives, even though I have been happy with them for years. It is just scary to be without email, and communication at the same time. People who don't use Google, what do you use? Is it ever down?
Posteo.de email service is down, prompting concerns about reliability and sparking a discussion about alternative email providers and the challenges of avoiding Google.
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They've finally implemented offline support in mobile app which was the last major missing feature I've been wanting.
They're not a "privacy" provider tho. So if you're one of those keep looking (private email is oxymoron but whatever)
They've had maybe only 1 major outage that I've noticed in the 5 or so years I've been with them and it was resolved in a day.
Do you remember if there was any communication regarding that outage? Posteo's record is similar, from what I can tell. This is the first major outage for 7 years that I have experienced, and if I look at it from an uptime perspective, that's really good. Overall the service was out for 5 hours or so.