GMX
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GMX Mail is a German-based free webmail service provided by GMX (Global Mail Exchange). In addition to an e-mail address, each GMX account includes a Mail Collector, Address Book, Organizer, and File Storage.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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GMX information
Developed by
1&1 Mail & Media GmbH Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 2.3Alternatives
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- Updated May 21, 2025
- 4.67 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
GMX is not the king of email services but it is surely a pretty good alternative. It is a hassle-free service. I like it a lot!
Pathetic. Wouldn't let me register.
skill issue
Yes, definitely, the web designers lacked elementary skills, which speaks volumes about the company.
The exodus of internet/email users from the US of PRISM (and UK, GCHQ) is understandable. While the description here is that GMX is "German-based" when you look at the contact details it lists California. Does anyone know whether GMX is subject to the same snooping laws as GMail and other US internet companies implicated in mass-snooping by Ed Snowden?
I used to think it was a good alternative in the past but the interface is kind of heavy/slow and the suggestions forum is practically abandoned. The development of improvements is very slow or doesn't exist at all.
Yet, barely any spam. Unlimited inbox space, and bunch of other. The UI may suck, but its worth using for sites that do not accept standard e-mail providers. And its also good to use as a spam-inbox, to signup with knowing you will get plenty of spam from the sites. My GMX is a spam heaven.
Hm, United Internet owns both GMX and Mail.com through its subsidiary 1&1 Internet. Maybe the development efforts are all into
mail.com
Spam... I don't receive that much in my
Yahoo Mail and 
Outlook.com addresses, I guess it really depends on how you use them online. Yahoo! has disposable addresses in case I really need one.
Most e-mail providers this day support Alias or Disposable Addresses, if I recall correctly Yahoo! Mail allows for e-mail re-use, not unheard off, but if you delete your e-mail then it can be registered back, nothing like this with Gmail, since there is a potential concern for Privacy. I personally use good old Mail.ru, being long time hater of UI and 1&1 I stay away from GXM or Mail.com, other then use them as fake accounts for sites that I know are going to spam the crap out of me.
Other then that I use Hushmail as I love privacy and encrypted e-mail providers like Hush Communication, prob because there Canadian company as well, and that's where I am from.
Outlook, I still hate, no matter how you look at it I tend to get e-mails asking me to buy Viagra or something along dating local sluts, and I never use my Outlook/Hotmail for anything other then for personal stuff that I signed to it back in like 2006 (Banking, Bills, Ect) Prob should just move over to Hushmail or my Google Business Apps.
I've been using gmx since the last millenium. Love their POP3 service (as I don't speak a word of german). Only downside is that they scrapped internationalization some time in the early 00s
OK. GMX is getting worse. Now, the Filters aren't working (no filters can be added), and the SPAM black/white lists also are showing problems.
Although it seemed like a great alternative to GMail etc, a number of people are getting frustrated with GMX:
I read this comment above, and totally agree with it. I was just about to post a reply, when I noticed that that comment is also mine!
Anyway, update in 2012: those limitations still remain. But I still use GMX because it works. I use it with Thunderbird 99% of the time, via IMAP, and have not complaints. I would like to export my Thunderbird filters and import them in to GMX (so messages are filtered and organised directly on the server), but (a) it's not possible and (b) I requested it on their forums but until this date, as Phil Collins would say, "no reply at all".
The forums are a bit frustrating themselves. Lots of questions, little amount of answers. And to make things worse, their search tool doesn't work (it returns the number of results, but doesn't display them). The workaround for this is to use Google to search the forums (site:forums.gmx.com keywords).
But why do I still use GMX? Because:
a) I don't want to change my e-mail address yet AGAIN. Tried Zoho (good), Yandex (nice), but I already get mail from old addresses via GMX and GMX is also my MSN address, etc, etc, etc.
b) it works. If one day I have to mail more than 10 recipients, I just write the draft and then use the Webmail to send. I can live with that
c) Ten free e-mail aliases: Yes, I can have up to ten totally different addresses linked to the main one. It's not like GMail's plus-thing (mainaddress+alias@gmail.com). And there are main domains to choose from (gmx.com, gmx.us, gmx.com.br, etc)
d) It's not GMail. GMail has its pros, but... it's GMail. That is, another Google thing. I don't want my life on Google. I already have and Android phone, YouTube, Blogger... Google search, Google Earth, Google Maps... GMail as well? No way.