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I was interested in hosting my own mail server that provides a similar level of privacy for users as Protonmail, ie the server admin cannot read any emails, even those which are not E2EE with PGP. Is there a self-hostable solution to this?

I'm aware the server admin can't read emails that were sent encrypted using the user's PGP key, but most emails I get are automated emails from companies/services/etc without the option to upload a public key to send the user encrypted email. If you're with a service like Protonmail, the server admin still cannot read even these emails.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

but then the admin can still read the mail while it arrives ;-)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's true of protonmail too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but maybe only for emails from outside, not for emails from within protonmail? haven't read any specs of protonmail yet...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

For internal emails yes they are encrypted on the client side. OP can use PGP or S/MIME for that too.