do a propter domain name:
this is a high tech low stress method:
a method not prone to error so should work 1st time:
protonMail (off shore company) has an excellent help page on setting up the MX records at your domain name provider. Pick one of protonMail's providers they talk about in their help page(s), pick goDaddy.
-At goDaddy buy a domain name for a year or two for your email effort. Pick something generic like "mymail.com" after all this domain name will only operate your email. You can play all day at goDaddy and find the very best domain name. goDaddy charges like $2.00/1st year for some names. Only goDaddy option you need to get is a private name listing ~$10 USD.
-goDaddy has good tech support during business hours and use them to navigate to their domain records control page. The goDaddy web site is clunky, i think my grandmother designed it back in the booming 90's.
-create a free protonMail account.
-upgrade the free account one level up, protonMail+. Note; there is a good offer for discounted protonMail+ and portonVPN and protonCloud. Tho a protonVPN rumor has it they limit p2p peers to less than 6. The protonCloud dosnt do sync.
-Use caution; the porton billing department is fragile.
-Proton is private; minium all they want to have is any id, password, and bitCoin payment. That is why you might consider protonVPN too. Proton may be private, maybe not secure.
-review; you got a goDaddy private domain name and upgrade to a protonMail+ account.
than
look up the protonMail help page for doDaddy MX records. Clip board from proton to goDaddy the various records text commands. So easy. the protonMail+ acc allows you to do the
bill@mymail.com else you can get a protonMail++ and do
anyName@mymail.com and it all funnels into your protonMail.
setup a proper email clients (iOS & macOS):
SETUP iOS:
-the protonMail iOS app is on the mighty iStore free. It has NOT been updated so the jury is out how much data they dredge from your emails and how it is traced to you. Apple now gives you a data privacy for recently updated iOS apps.
-hint the iOS proton app, you must remain "logged in" for the notifications and finger print/ face reg. to work.
-the iOS app can reference your domain name
bill@mymail.com if you want it primary.
-you can make protonMail iOS your designated defalult iPhone email client, i did not. I did move the native iPhone email client icon out from the bottom 4 priority application icons and dragged the protoMail icon into its space.
SETUP macOS:
-protonMail has a "Bridge" app you have to dwn load install other wise you can only use the proton web portal.
-To setup ANY macOS email for protonMail; Once the Bridge is operating use the Bride settings; port, email adr, security setting... and plug them into CanaryMail client to create a protonMail account in Canary Mail.
-I like Canary macOS as they seem more private than average, may be not.
-Canary is free for ~22days and otherwise low cost. One license may cover all your macOS needs.
-i use Catalina.
general:
-apple limits you to only one email user name per apple account.
-apple could read your email content just like google.
-dont ding your personal credit card, buy bitCoin with USD for all off shore purchases these days
-separate domain name & email provides gives you sone options to change out the email and no one will know
-the protonMail++ account does a few things more. Notable; it gives you the ability to have any email name left of the @ symbol. So
business@mymail.com is the same as
personal@mymail.com, all funnels to the same email client. Just more porfessional.
-protonMail is generous and I do not have an issue to pay for their services.
-get multiple proton free protonMail account(s) for burner emails.
-also myBurner
@protonMail.com same as myBurner
@pm.com
-do not delete your previous gmail account. Let it sit and hold reserve your email name you have been using for decades. While you move everyone to the new email setup.
i do not represent any of these peeps
and
do your own research = no guarantee this works.
