cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43889999
Originally posted at ShopCanadianStuff.ca/blog which has no affiliation to NorthMail.ca
I noticed NorthMail.ca which I had previously only know for being a Canadian hosted and owned free webmail provider was now listing Video Calls and an office suite as features.
Oddly enough Northmail was featured in a recent monologue joke on Late Night with Seth Meyers. You can see the joke on TikTok here or at 7:15 on this YouTube video of the show.
I tried out the video calling and it works pretty well though it is not obvious how to do it.
I made a brief guide on how to use the video calling feature in this blog post at ShopCanadianStuff.ca/blog
NorthMail.ca has many other features, a calendar, file and photo storage, dark mode and other theme customization. Language settings allow for both English and French as well as many other languages.
The paid premium version of NorthMail.ca provides 100 GB of storage (1GB for free version), no ads, and promises a faster smoother experience for $0.99/month.
If you sign up soon you can get a pretty good pick of the available email addresses so you don't have to go with something as long a BuyCanadianElbowsUp_1867@NorthMail.ca unless you want something that long.
If anyone is concerned about if Northmail.ca is actually Canadian, the owners name is listed on their website, I checked their linked in page which lists the same person as their CIRA domain registration.
To find more Canada made products and services check out ShopCanadianStuff.ca
Why does the site complain about lack of https support and why is it in zenarmours database as a spam site
Given that it offers free email, I would be kind of surprised if no one had ever used it for spam.
As for https support, I had no issues there, and a quick check shows that the site has a valid certificate from Let's Encrypt. The security signature is given as "AES-GCM, 128-bit keys, TLS 1.2", which means it's one TLS version behind and has the exact same security signature as amazon.ca.
Seems the original post used "http://" and I use Firefox focus on my phone. Looks like that doesn't do the https redirect like regular Firefox.