Email providers advice?

Why did we ever domesticate strawberries? I am eating wild strawberries from the garden—some consolation for the absolutely awful summer weather we're having at the moment—and they're so nice. Mmm.

Anyway—I have a question for you all! I currently use Gmail for my main fandom email account, but I'm considering changing to something else. I've been investigating possibilities, but I thought I'd ask if anyone here has any relevant knowledge/experience.

Things I want:

• Good about privacy and security, not selling users' data, etc. (hence the wanting to move away from Gmail).


• Ideally something with a funding system similar to Dreamwidth's, where you can have a basic free account or pay for more features; I don't want anything funded by ads, since the incentives involved there would seem to undermine the first point.


• Reasonably nice user-friendly interface, which is difficult to specify exactly—but things like making it easy to find all the important buttons, not having the 'new email' window block you from doing anything in the main window (my main RL email does this and it's very annoying), etc.


• A good inbox search function would be useful.

The main candidates I've identified so far are Protonmail and Tutanota—has anyone here used either of these, if so what are your thoughts on them, and/or do you have any other suggestions to make?