If you are interested in switching from Gmail to EU provider and were hesitating because you weren’t sure how to approach it this post is just for you!
I am describing my path where I switched to Soverin email provider and talking some details about desktop and mobile clients.
Soverin is EU based provider with servers in Europe, high privacy and years of experience.
Whole post here: EU made email


Free means you’re the product.
Paid means that you might be the product and cheap means I expect you to be the product.
My recommendation would be to read the tos and look for their data gathering and analytics info before choosing a vendor.