E-mail migration

Today, just a small announcement to warn that I am deprecating all previous e-mails I’ve had.

TLDR; if you need an e-mail to contact me, use jae@iki.fi, that’s it. This is a for-life alias, it won’t change again.

To go more in details, as for why, and where:

• Before 2010, my e-mails were hosted on 9online, the e-mail service of the French ISP SFR.
• Around 2010 to 2012, I was on Laposte, which is the e-mail service of the French postal service (yes, they do that).
• From 2012 to around 2018, I was mainly using Gmail due to not being able to afford a domain, and Gmail in general being *wildly* popular at the time.
• Starting 2018, up to 2020, my e-mails were hosted by a nonprofit.
• From 2020 to 2022, those e-mails were on ProtonMail.
• In 2023, I decided to take back the hosting into my own hands… until now.

And that’s where we stand. Simply put: I don’t have any more energy and money to throw into e-mail hosting.

It was fun while it lasted, but it’s just easier for me to delegate sending and receiving to the Finnish nonprofit Iki (AKA “Internet Users Forever”), and the storage part to Posteo from now on.

Why Posteo? Simple:

• They’re cheap, only €1 a month with all the basic features included.
• Direct IMAP/SMTP access, no need for a weird bridge like ProtonMail does.
• Can also sync calendars and contacts books, which is a nice addition.
• No ads anywhere, no matter if you’re paying or not.
• They’re European. This is not in a sense of security, more that I prefer buying local.

While Posteo goes at length about the privacy and security of their e-mail service, it doesn’t matter to me. E-mail is still deeply unsafe to its core, and no amount of duct tape is going to fix that.

All I need is a cheap service that just works, and it seems they are doing just that fine.