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Have you considered Proton Mail? It's by folk from CERN in Switzerland. So non-5 eyes. It's a very solid and reliable email service.
I did, their free plan is too limiting if you ask me and I know that they had some shady decisions in the past. I am pretty well satisfied with Tutanota. I just wanted to switch to Skiff because at first glance, I thought it was as good as Tutanota and on my Samsung phone, the notifications worked. Whereas Tutanota's became either very delayed or did not come at all. I don't mind checking the Tutanota app every now and then but why should I when notifications are a thing. I sure as hell will switch to a different phone since Samsung seems to be very badly rated in https://dontkillmyapp.com/. Unfortunately, turns out they're US based (big red flag already) and they are hosting their servers in AWS (another big red flag).
"I also know that they had some shady decisions in the past." I am assuming this is a reference to responding to a legal order to hand over details for a user. Any company would have to do the same. The problem is with the law, not the company.
exactly. They lost their warrant canary, but that in and of itself isn't reason enough to abandon the platform or believe it's compromised.
And if legal warrants are your concern, you shouldn't be using a cloud solution at all tbh