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Mailfence Blog
Company blog · blog.mailfence.comsecuritywriting
Mailfence Blog is the company blog at blog.mailfence.com, writing about security and writing. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Mailfence blog posts on migrating a Skiff account, plus-addressing to track spammers, and the service's stance on legal requests and privacy. The comments cite these posts rather than judge them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Private email by Mailfence - Everything you need to know about email privacy, security, encryption and email etiquette.
What Hacker News says?
I would check out Mailfence. Best alternative to PM IMO. https://blog.mailfence.com/how-to-migrate-your-skiff-account...
Comment linking /how-to-migrate-your-skiff-account/
on “Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset”Submitted How to Degoogle Your Life (2023) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWow, super nice feature: https://blog.mailfence.com/plus-addressing-to-track-spammers... I'd be really tempted to switch once my Fastmail contract runs out. Except I'm experiencing so little spam, so I'm so satisfied. But all their other features are so cool too. What to do, what to do? :)
Comment linking /plus-addressing-to-track-spammers/
on “Mailfence: Secure and private email service”Submitted GDPR Compliance Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNo reputable email service will allow you to use it to commit crimes. If the activity is against their ToS, and they get a legal warrant to provide information to the authorities, then this goes beyond any reasonable expectation of privacy. Mailfence is pretty open about this[1]. Their privacy policy[2] also seems reasonable. Their only obligation is complying with Belgian law, and I'll take that any day over a serv…
Comment linking /transparency-report-and-warrant-canary/
on “Tutanota Is Now Tuta”Submitted End-To-end Encryption and Digital Signatures as a story · 2 points
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