Prefer me a FOSS email service provider.
By definition an email server is not under your control, so the question of whether or not it runs FOSS is a bit moot and in any case impossible to verify.
In terms of privacy-respecting email hosting, Proton, Posteo, and Mailbox all spring to mind.
dont forget tuta
Exactly this. Services and software are not the same thing, you’re asking for a service recommendation and it can’t be open-source software because it’s not software.
I plan on using proton until I hate myself enough to run my own email server
It’s not completely FOSS, but I run Port87, which is quite a bit FOSS. It uses Haraka as its SMTP server, SvelteKit as its server framework, Nymph.js as its database layer, Svelte as its frontend framework, and Svelte Material UI as its UI framework.
The ones that I created and maintain are:
The base app layout is also available on GitHub.