Ask HN: Alternatives to Email?

I am a little confused by the need for 'foolproof'. Do you mean they cannot type it in wrong? Or they might send you junk mail? Or are you worried the email will address will be abandoned? As in we are leaving school, and we always want to keep in touch?

What do you mean? What specific issues are you trying to solve or work around?

I'm setting up my personal website, at myname.url , and I want to have a way of letting people get in touch with me privately and securely.

Right now I have me@URL alongside me@gmail and me@hey because sometimes mails just don't arrive correctly, or go to spam, etc. Depending on the sender to send again to another address is not satisfying to me.

I'd prefer not to have to stand up and maintain my own server. I can get a PO box, and I can get a synthetic phone number, but I really crave something I can really trust. Something encrypted, deniable, and having all sorts of nice qualities.

From an security aesthetics POV, I love projects like https://github.com/maqp/tfc . What other projects like this are there?