I setup a PM mail for job applications & the local/name is not offensive or inappropriate. I am sending to businesses & agents with posted job openings, so, it's not unsolicited. I expected a high number of no responses, but > 90% is much higher than I expected(before the latest layoffs trend, anyway).
Is such an address likely to go straight to spam or is there a general dislike for Proton Mail I am not aware of? I understand 'free' emails are often abused by bad actors, but I presumed that Proton Mail would be less maligned than most. Is this an incorrect assumption?
Google has a stranglehold on what it considers "valid" and I don't know how we use other providers as long as they have it.
Proton Mail seems to be less blackballed than most. But still has massive deliverability issues. If you want reliable delivery, you really have to stick with Microsoft, Google, AWS SES, or mayyyyybe FastMail.
I hate this situation.
The left-field approach would be to build your own client on top of an email API like mailgun or sendgrid (excluding the free tiers). But those are expensive for a personal use-case.
Why? Are you paranoid and odd?
I'm definitely odd that I read the stories of unlucky people's entire lives F'd over because they happily used all the standard convenient google services and then google killed them, in error, and with no human customer service to correct it, and I decide that maybe we shouldn't all just cooperate with a bad thing, and try to get myself some other service providers.
I already have my domain firstlastname.com with Google domains. I can setup email forwarding for free. All goes to my gmail address.
As far as normal people their reaction was "That's cool you have your own email like that"
Also I was getting what I thought was an annoying bug trying to register for a video streaming subscription for months under an actual protonmail address I use only for that purpose so the spam it gets doesn't flood regular email. It was just silently never getting to the payment page and reloading the page to enter an email without any kind of error or failure message. Each time, I figured screw it, probably broken, I'll try again next month. I finally just tried a gmail address instead and it worked fine.
The more leaks the better. So ymmv when you create a new account.
I wish it weren't so, because its a great service and is so much faster than gmail in my experience, but that's where we're at.
A user might mark you as spam in their client if they perceive you as engaging in unwanted marketing especially if they’re unclear where you got their email.
And proton was one of two preferred clients the hurtcore folks liked back when I was learning about OSINT + favored by a few other really rude sets of people so it’s absolutely possible especially if you have one of the newer non dot ch addresses.
Do you have a trusted friend you can try emailing to test?
What exactly are you emailing about?
I am not sure why you would use a proton mail address for job applications, it’s like making a website with a weird TLD instead of a .com - no real positive benefit besides maybe saving money, highly likely to be viewed with suspicion.