StartMail is an encrypted email service that provides a secure way for users to communicate with friends, family, and colleagues. It offers enhanced privacy features such as end-to-end encryption and secure storage of emails. It also provides advanced search capabilities and a simplified user interface with options to customize the view. StartMail also offers a disposable email address feature for added privacy. With its robust security features, StartMail is ideal for anyone looking for a secure and private way to communicate online.
As with Protonmail, Tutanota is a good alternative to StartMail. All of these services may not be as feature-rich as Gmail and its kin, but unlike them, they offer end-to-end PGP-based encryption and allow for truly private emails. That's worth a lot in an age when intelligence agencies simply store all emails that travel across the web in plain text (as Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo offer).
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Mailbox.org is a good replacement for StartMail because it offers PGP-based encryption (you choose whether you want them to handle your private keys or not), and it comes with Calendar and Contacts features that are better than StartMail. But you have to pay a bit to use it. A closer 1-for-1 replacement for Startmail in terms of functionality might be Protonmail, but it has fewer features than Mailbox.org.
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Mailfence is the only secure email solution listed here that offers interoperability with any other openPGP solution. Moreover, Mailfence is much more than just secure email, Mailfence is a complete suite with calendar, documents, contacts and presence all included. A true alternative to the Google Apps suite.
Protonmail is probably the best alternative to Startmail at the moment. Both services are fairly basic in terms of functionality, but both also offer end-to-end encryption using the tried and tested PGP standard (unlike Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo). Consider Tutanota as well, which is very good for the same reason/purpose.