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You should look into this
Aye, I have looked through this too: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/gmail
Unfortunately every service seems to have something going on that I dont like or they dont have something I want. Maybe I should just be less discerning. It doesnt help that switching is a lot of effort and bother.
I took a look at disroot but i heard about that too that there are some things about it that make it not useable to me, like them storing the mails unencrypted apparently. So that one became not an option.
Proton might be good, but after everything i have heard about that too i fear it might develop more problems later which would just have me switch again.
Tuta might be good, but I have heard about that one too that they like sending ads about their services you cant opt out so that kind of attitude doesn't sit well with me. Not even google does that. That also has be worrying they might start enshittifying the service at some point and maybe make the free version so awful i'd have to switch again.
Many others can't be used for free at all, which is quite important thing for service this crucial. I wish eu itself would create some email service instead of having to rely on corporations that might change their mind about anything the moment it becomes more profitable to them. Though that one would probably be very austere and definitely not have aliases as option.. Why must everything it related be so annoying nowdays.
Kmail on your list seems decent. I cant seem to find a way to make account for it, only to get the client for managing other accounts unless i'm misunderstanding something.
Yes, all these email services want you to pay up for them. I think this is the price tag for privacy.
I have switched to Mailbox org a couple of years ago. I had a freemail provider before that. Unfortunately, this providers' data got leaked, and therefore I got pwned, luckily only resulting into a tsunami of spam. The entry-tier with Mailbox is 1 € per month (= 12 € per year) which is compareably cheap in my opinion. Of course, it depends on what features you desire - more features cost more money. They also offer a free trial for 30 days (but it is wise to start the free trial at the begin of a month, as far as I recall).
The process of switching the email provider took me at least 6 months, where both the old and the new email adress have to exist simulatiously.
If you need to register quickly to an online service, i can recommend Temp-Mail org. Its free, but you need to have the tab opened for the registration process, as all data (including the free temporary email adress) will be deleted once the tab is closed. I used this service to register with my home instance, because back then I didn't want to expose my real email adress.