I'm looking to switch over to move privacy focused setup, so far i have a VPN, and will be making other changes. Is there any email providers that you know respect privacy, or how one would do this?
Use a web hosting and domain provider (eg mythic beasts), and get a [email protected] email address. Or self host the server, if you have the ability, then you just need to buy the domain.
If you own your own domain the you can use a paid tier of a service like Proton or Tuta where the emal is [email protected] and the backend is actually them, so you don't need to selfhost.