A bit of a sidenote but: what is a gmail alternative that really works? For instance, spam handling is worse in pretty much any alternative I've tried.
I'm interested in EU-based products first. But they need to handle spam well!
It's hard to judge but for me Fastmail seems to be pretty great at detecting spam, at least it always ends up in my Spam folder. False positives are pretty regular, so far never actual human written emails though, only newsletters, but still. Overall for me a set and happily forget kind of service. Support is decent too.
I'm a happy user of Fastmail. It's a paid service (€5 per month) but that comes with higher standards. The webmail has been pretty good. Barely any spam to speak of (once a week?), even though I have various email addresses in public places.
Protonmail works in the sense that I can receive and send emails, it's always up when I need it. I don't know how much of the spam is not arriving or being filtered.
Do you have any deliverability issues when sending mails? I find Protonmail interesting and I like the clean UI, but I worry my mails may end up in recipients' spam folder more often.
I use Apple's hosted domain service, which is included in the price of Apple One we were already paying for. It's been surprisingly great since I switched my domains to it.
I'm interested in EU-based products first. But they need to handle spam well!