{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The 8232 Project wrote","author_name":"The 8232 Project (npub1c7…6uz7q)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1c7kqntvzldec32skmcd7uu6tmdenz73r5p76dwlr0x9gwtpj9qds66uz7q","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"I was researching WebMail providers, and noticed that most WebMail providers recommended in privacy communities are labelled as proprietary by [AlternativeTo](https://alternativeto.net/ ).\n\n\nI made a list of WebMail providers, private or not, to see which ones were actually open source:\n\n\n### \n\nProprietary\n[AOL Mail](https://mail.aol.com/ ): Free\n\n\n[Cock.li](https://cock.li/ ): Free\n\n\n[CounterMail](https://countermail.com/ ): Paid\n\n\n[Fastmail](https://www.fastmail.com/ ): Paid\n\n\n[GMX Mail](https://www.gmx.com/mail/ ): Free\n\n\n[Gmail](https://gmail.com ): Free\n\n\n[HEY Email](https://www.hey.com/ ): Paid\n\n\n[Hushmail](https://www.hushmail.com/ ): Paid\n\n\n[iCloud Mail](https://www.icloud.com/mail ): Free\n\n\n[Mail.com](https://www.mail.com/ ): Free\n\n\n[Mailbox.org](https://mailbox.org ): Paid\n\n\n[Mailfence](https://mailfence.com ): Freemium\n\n\n[Outlook.com](https://outlook.com ): Freemium\n\n\n[Posteo](https://posteo.de/en ): Paid\n\n\n[Rediffmail](https://businessemail.rediff.com/ ): Paid\n\n\n[Riseup](https://riseup.net/ ): Free\n\n\n[Runbox](https://runbox.com/ ): Paid\n\n\n[Soverin](https://www.soverin.com/ ): Paid\n\n\n[StartMail](https://www.startmail.com/ ): Paid\n\n\n[Yahoo! Mail](https://mail.yahoo.com ): Freemium\n\n\n[Yandex Mail](https://mail.yandex.com ): Freemium\n\n\n[Zoho Mail](https://www.zoho.com/us/mail/ ): Freemium\n\n\n### \n\nOpen source\n[Criptext](https://www.criptext.com/ ): Free\n\n\n[Disroot](https://disroot.org/en/services/email ): Free\n\n\n[Forward Email](https://forwardemail.net/en ): Freemium\n\n\n[Infomaniak kMail](https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/service-mail ): Freemium\n\n\n[Kolab Now](https://kolabnow.com ): Paid\n\n\n[Lavabit](https://lavabit.com/ ): Paid\n\n\n[Mailpile](https://www.mailpile.is/ ): Free\n\n\n[Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail ): Freemium\n\n\n[Roundcube](https://roundcube.net/ ): Free\n\n\n[Skiff](https://skiff.com/ ): Freemium\n\n\n[Tuta](https://tuta.com ): Freemium\n\n\nUnless I’m missing something, it seems like people overlook this when deciding on WebMail providers. Is it a distinction between a proprietary backend server and a proprietary app, or is there a different way to decide if a WebMail provider is proprietary vs. open source? Lavabit was labelled proprietary by AlternativeTo, but open source by Wikipedia.\n\n\n# \n\nNote\nIf I have labelled an open source WebMail provider as proprietary by mistake, please provide evidence by linking to the source code, and I will happily change it.\n\n\n"}