Both auto-forwarding and auto-reply are paid features, which makes cancelling & switching much more difficult. Gmail is a breeze comparatively. I highly recommend against using their addresses (e.g. protonmail.com, proton.me, pm.me)

Email forwarding is available for everyone with a paid Proton Mail plan.

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  • HayadSont
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    2 days ago

    Thank you! Great answer!

    For some reason, perhaps because I’m an absolute shill/sucker for free services, I always forget about mailbox.org. Thank you for bringing it to my attention and talking about its features!

    Though, if I understand correctly, we basically don’t have a privacy-respecting email provider that offers auto-forward and auto-reply functionality in its free plan/tier:

    • Proton Mail requires a paid plan for auto-forwarding/replying and its free plan doesn’t support IMAP. BUT?!, crucially, IIUC, the issue can already be circumvented with a custom domain that sits in front of Proton Mail. Which, isn’t entirely free, but 1$ for the domain ain’t bad.
    • Tuta Mail doesn’t even offer the functionality AFAIK nor does it support IMAP. Furthermore, I don’t know if the custom domain trick works for this one.
    • Finally, mailbox.org doesn’t even have a free plan. Though, at 1 euro/month, it’s at least very competitively priced.