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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.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
2.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
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7comments
0news articles

Features

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  1.  Multiple Account support
  2.  Two-factor Authentication
  3.  Mail Filtering
  4.  POP3 Support
  5.  Encrypted Email
  6.  IMAP Support
  7.  Mail collector
  8.  WebDAV Support
  9.  CalDAV Support

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Recent activities

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    sebastianpaczoski added GMX as alternative to Northmail
    about 1 month ago
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    SudoVanilla added GMX as alternative to MailHaven
    2 months ago
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    SudoVanilla added GMX as alternative to Zero Email
    2 months ago
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    UniqueGo added GMX as alternative to Swissmail
    3 months ago
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    AISS added GMX as alternative to Keychat
    4 months ago
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    UniqueGo added GMX as alternative to Inbox.eu and Iroco
    5 months ago
  • javiergil replied to a comment / review on GMX
    8 months ago
  • tubby9417 replied to a comment / review on GMX
    8 months ago
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    cpfotiadis added GMX as alternative to PissMail
    10 months ago
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GMX information

  • Developed by

    DE flag1&1 Mail & Media GmbH
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.3
  • Alternatives

    60 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Spanish

AlternativeTo Categories

Office & ProductivitySecurity & PrivacyOnline ServicesBackup & SyncBusiness & Commerce

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  •   Updated May 21, 2025
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Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about GMX, and it has gotten 76 likes

GMX was added to AlternativeTo by lolsies on May 5, 2009 and this page was last updated Oct 14, 2020.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
adtyagrwl
Apr 16, 2016
0

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!

Top Negative Comment
javiergil
Sep 22, 2021
0

Pathetic. Wouldn't let me register.

Tubby 9417
Oct 18, 2024

skill issue

javiergil
Oct 18, 2024

Yes, definitely, the web designers lacked elementary skills, which speaks volumes about the company.

Arkwright
Jan 14, 2014
1

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?

Rafael Luik
Oct 10, 2013
0

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.

shinjiku
Oct 22, 2013

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.

Rafael Luik
Oct 24, 2013

Hm, United Internet owns both GMX and Mail.com through its subsidiary 1&1 Internet. Maybe the development efforts are all into mail.com icon mail.com

Spam... I don't receive that much in my Yahoo Mail icon Yahoo Mail and Outlook.com icon Outlook.com addresses, I guess it really depends on how you use them online. Yahoo! has disposable addresses in case I really need one.

shinjiku
Oct 29, 2013

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.

tabakis
Feb 8, 2011
0

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

Mickets
Sep 19, 2010
0

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.

Mickets
Aug 20, 2010
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Although it seemed like a great alternative to GMail etc, a number of people are getting frustrated with GMX:

  • Maximum of 10 recipients if sendind mail via SMTP (apparently unlimited if via Webmail)
  • Date format is only MM/DD/YYYY and can't be changed.
  • Poor response to feature requests. The above have been requested two years ago, and no solutions yet.
Mickets
Jul 26, 2012

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.

What is GMX?

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. One user can register up to 10 individual GMX e-mail addresses in one account.

The application comes with 5 GB of e-mail storage, 2 GB of File Storage, file sharing capabilities, and virus and spam protection. “Drag and Drop” capability for files and e-mails is also utilized. Other features include a push mail service to feed other third-party addresses (e.g. Gmail) into the GMX inbox, an address Book, and Black-and whitelist functions. The service supports POP3, SMTP and IMAP protocols as well as mobile device integration. The service also provides a calendar feature and the ability to directly login to Facebook using registered GMX login and password. E-mail accounts can be registered with a choice of .com, .co.uk and .us, amongst many others.

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