

Next, assuming it is worth it, I’ve narrowed down my choices to Protonmail, Fastmail, and. So my first question is, considering my threat model, is it worth the effort to switch to another provider, or am I chasing privacy that won’t exist at the next provider either? I’m not concerned about people who have enough power to “legally” get anything they want despite my objections, I’m just not willing to accept the functional tradeoff for that level of privacy. My threat model is basically just I don’t want my data mined for ads, or to build digital profiles, or to track me across the web.

While researching replacements, I’ve come across several posts that flat out state google does not scan/mine workspace mailboxes, at least not more than any email provider that isn’t zero knowledge end to end. However, the main reason I was doing that was privacy.

If you would like to merge one account into another account, please see Combining accounts.I’m considering moving my personal domain from google workspace to another provider. For more information, see Aliases and Addresses in Proton Mail (new window). Otherwise, you can also create a new account at /pricing (new window) or add additional usernames to your account. If you would like us make these changes, please contact our support team (new window). Usernames and email addresses are not case-sensitive, so these changes are purely cosmetic. We can change capital letters to sentence case and vice versa Once a user takes a specific username, none of these variations can be used for a different account.Ģ. That is, username is the same as user_name and user.name, etc. This is possible because these characters are treated as transparent by our service. Changing your username would change the key that was used to send and receive all the emails in your inbox.ġ.

This key allows you to send and receive emails using Proton Mail’s encryption. When you created your account, you also created a key that was matched to your username. Your username is the beginning part of the main email address that you created to sign up for your Proton Mail account ( Unfortunately, we cannot change the main login username on your account.
