Well, this is what I read. I'm no lawyer, but the terming seems vague. I
might be wrong. Hopefully a lawyer among us (I know there is one) will clear
it out.
PRIVACY: SAFe-mail Ltd. will not disclose information about you or your use
of the SAFe-mail system, unless SAFe-mail believes that such action is
necessary to comply with its legal requirements or process; enforce these
terms; or protect the interests of SAFe-mail Ltd., its members or others. You
agree that SAFe-mail may access your account, including its contents, for
these reasons or for service or technical reasons. Please note that your
Internet Protocol address is transmitted with each message sent from your
account.
https://www.safe-mail.net/agreement.html
The bold is mine..Only I don't know how to make a double bold on "or for
service or technical reasons" :P
And, yeah, I could swear when I asked for an account it did not work until I
filled the phone number field with an obviously fake number.
I very much prefer this (again the mail with cocks, meh):
How can I trust you?
You can't. Cock.li doesn't parse your E-mail to provide you with targeted
ads, nor do I read E-mail contents unless it's for a legal court order.
However, it is 100% possible for me to read E-mail, and IMAP/SMTP doesn't
provide user-side/client-side encryption, so you're just going to have to
take my word for it. Any encryption implementation would still technically
allow me to read E-mail, too. This was true for Lavabit as well -- while your
E-mail was stored encrypted (only if you were a paid member, which most
people forget), E-mail could still technically be intercepted while being
received / sent (SMTP), or while being read by your mail client (IMAP). For
privacy, I would recommend encrypting your E-mails using PGP using a mail
client add-on like Enigmail.
As you pointed out, the only real option is hosting your own mail.
