# Email

Use a **secure** and **privacy focused** email provider ([list of suggested providers](https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/)).

My recommendation:

[![protonmail-logo.png](https://bookstack.leepeuker.dev/uploads/images/gallery/2019-08/scaled-1680-/protonmail-logo.png)](https://protonmail.com/)

##### Steps to change your email provider (to protonmail)

**1.** Register [a new account](https://protonmail.com/signup).

<p class="callout info">Think about registering two accounts. One to use for personal and official affairs and one for spam (e.g. registering an account on an untrusted site).</p>

**2.** Forward all incoming emails from your old email address/es to your new email address. (e.g. [How to forward in Gmail](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957?hl=en))

**3.** Delete all emails saved in your old email account/s. If you want to keep emails, you can either copy/send them manually to your new email address or use the protonmail [Import-Export app](https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/export-import-emails/).

<p class="callout warning">To use the protonmail Import-Export app you need a premium account. The cheapest way is to just upgrade your account to Pro for one month, which will cost you 5€ one time.</p>

**4.** Change all your existing online accounts, newsletter subscriptions and etc. to you use your new email address/es.

<p class="callout info">I recommend to connect this step with the updating and upgrading of your passwords.</p>

**5.** Delete your old email account/s.

<p class="callout warning">Wait a few weeks/month before doing this. Maybe you forgot to change your email address somewhere important and still need the address active.</p>