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Guides, reviews, and setup tutorials for encrypted email. ProtonMail, Tuta, and everything that keeps your inbox private.
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End to End Encrypted Email Explained: What Stays Private
Understand what end-to-end encrypted email protects, how Proton Mail and Tuta handle outside recipients, and how to check a message's protection.
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Secure Email Providers Without Phone Number: Best Picks
Tuta is the clearest choice for email signup without a phone number. Compare Proton's verification caveat, free plans, pricing and recovery options.
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Secure Mail: What It Protects and How to Set It Up
Secure mail needs more than encryption. Learn which threats it addresses, what metadata remains visible, and how to harden an inbox in 10 minutes.
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Thunderbird PGP Setup: Encrypt Email Without Add-Ons
Set up OpenPGP in Thunderbird without add-ons: generate a key, publish it to keys.openpgp.org, exchange keys, and verify mail really sent encrypted.
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Proton Mail vs Gmail Privacy: Encryption and Data Access
This Proton Mail vs Gmail privacy comparison explains encryption, data collection, jurisdiction, legal disclosure, and practical tradeoffs.
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How to Encrypt Email in Outlook: S/MIME, Purview, and IRM
All three Outlook encryption methods compared: S/MIME, Purview Message Encryption, and IRM, with setup steps for both classic and new Outlook.
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SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Setup for a Custom Domain
A step-by-step guide to publishing SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records for your own domain so your mail lands in inboxes and nobody can spoof your address.
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How to Set Up Proton Mail: 2FA, Bridge & Custom Domain
Set up Proton Mail step by step: create an account, secure recovery and 2FA, configure Bridge or a custom domain, and migrate safely from Gmail.
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Tuta Setup Guide: Getting Started with Encrypted Email
A step-by-step guide to setting up Tuta, formerly Tutanota: account creation, the privacy settings worth changing, and migrating your existing mail.
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Email Security Threat Model: Who Reads Your Email?
A clear-eyed look at who can access your email, under what circumstances, and which of those threats actually warrant changing your setup at all.