Paul O'Brien

A personal catch-up on what’s changed in KT8 Mail since launch, and a couple of side projects I’ve been building alongside it.

KT8 Mail is my new email service that you own outright: your own domain and your own Cloudflare account, with no mail company in the middle. I took Cloudflare’s open-source Agentic Inbox, made it better and made it simple to install. Members can request an invite code today.

HEY wants to reinvent how you handle email, while Fastmail wants to fit however you already work. After six months inside HEY and years of writing about Fastmail, here's an honest, fact-checked comparison of pricing, features, privacy and the trade-offs that matter day to day.

Proton is built so your mail is unreadable to the host, and Fastmail so email is fast and dependable. Here is how they compare on encryption, custom domains, price, support and jurisdiction, and who should pick which.

Masked email does the same job as a disposable address but forwards to your real inbox, so you keep password resets and can switch it off. This guide compares the two, explains why sites block disposable addresses and weighs the main services.

QuickInbox.app promises anonymous, tracking-free disposable email. When I checked in October 2026, it loaded PostHog session replay, published no privacy policy or contact details, and tied paid plans to a bank card.

Amazon SES strips away SaaS markups to offer low-cost email infrastructure. This review covers the sandbox, DKIM and MAIL FROM setup, pricing and the bounce handling you have to build yourself.

Nostr Mail (Nmail) is an open-source webmail client that carries email over the Nostr protocol, so your identity is a key pair rather than an account. It’s fast and genuinely encrypted between Nostr users, but it leaks some metadata and the bridge to ordinary email weakens the story.