Posteo
Web- and IMAP-based email service. 2GB cost 1€/month. Information is hosted on encrypted hard drives. Electricity from renewable resources is used.
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Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Security-focused
Features
- Encrypted mail and contacts
- Transparency
- Encrypted Email
- Calendar Integration
- Two-factor Authentication
- PGP Encryption
- Spam Filter
- Calendar View
- End-to-End Encryption
- Ad-free
- No Tracking
- Mail Filtering
- Support for Aliases
- Dark Mode
- Email Organizer
- WYSIWYG Support
- Built-in Calendar
- IMAP Support
- Sustainability
- CardDAV Support
Posteo News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
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What is Posteo?
Posteo is an independent email service provider. Based in Berlin since 2009. With focus on security, privacy, and sustainability. They offer ad free paid email accounts for individuals and businesses.
In 2022, Posteo had more than 500,000 active mail accounts
Strength:
• Very strong privacy and encryption. Including both data and payment.
• Powered by 
Roundcube. Which is Libre Source (Open Source). If you are not familiar with "Libre Source", it means this software has both stronger security & stronger privacy. Because its code is publicly available for review and contributions on 
GitHub at https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/
• Attractive 
GNU General Public License version 3. This means the software code of this extension is owned and supported by a friendly not-for-profit community. Instead of a for-profit corporation. https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/master/LICENSE
• Two-factor authentication (TFA). Video at https://posteo.de/en/blog/help-video-how-to-additionally-secure-your-account-with-two-factor-authentication
• Wide selection of theme. Including dark. Video at https://posteo.de/en/blog/new-at-posteo-many-colors-and-dark-mode
• 2 GB storage. Can be increased to 20 GB.
• Attachment up to 50MB
• Two alias addresses included. Can be increased to 20 for an additional charge of 0.10 EUR per alias per month.
• IMAP or POP3. So you are free to use any email software to your liking. Such as, but not limited to Thunderbird.
• Address book
• Calendar
• Customized filters
• Unlimited filter addresses
• Multilingual. English, French, German. Including both the interface and documentation.
• Easy migration from other suppliers to Posteo
• Forwarding and autoreply
• Country codes: posteo.co.uk, posteo.de, posteo.net, posteo.org, and more
• Self-financed. Posteo does business sustainably. They are free of debts and loans. There are no investors. So they are free from external interference.
• In 2022, Posteo had more than 500,000 active mail accounts. Source at https://posteo.de/en/site/transparency_report
• Ad-free
• Multiple payment options to choose from
Challenge: • Can not yet receive email at a custom domain name
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Rating
Average rating of 4.4Alternatives
74 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- German
- French
Comments and Reviews
Open source, supports encryption and calendaring. One of the better privacy-oriented email services. A strong competitor against Protonmail, Mailbox.org and Tutanota.
I had Posteo Mail for several years and it is absolute garbage. Why? Because of the enormous amount of spam - and yes I am most careful when I go so sites - that filled my inbox. They claim the have an automatic spam filter it just did not work! I had the paid version and when you contact the compay they reply to you by some replies in the site of "you can customize your spam filter" but even so it simply does not work. One must remember that the company - this is well documented - was ransoned by hackers. There are much better options to choose from I have a new secure email provider but moving all my emails and informing my recipients of my new email adress was quite a chore. Posteo mail is to be avoided.
A Berlin business that sets privacy and security first, been using posteo for years and I've always been statisfied.
Germany is at the forefront of the revolution, you should support them
Alternative to GAFAM using Green energy!
Posteo is truly ad-free, does not even advertise the services it offers. It costs 1€ per month, which I found is one of the cheapest not-for-free services around. The company publishes statistics about the requests from authorities and shares several important values. For example they run their servers with green energy and donate money to charities. Posteo features Mailvelope integration for end-to-end encryption and a calendar. Emails, contacts and calendars can be encrypted, the user can choose the encryption key, and the Search tool also works on encrypted data. My only critics: the look 'n feel of the web interface is old-school and the learning curve is steep. It took me quite some time to feel comfortable with it, but I could eventually find pretty much everything I was looking for.
Use it personally, good price, environmentally friendly, and reliable service. Contact features can be a little limited (ie not an easy "favorite" method), and there is not an easy way to track an external website .ics calendar, but otherwise really gets the job done.
[Edited by jtflynnz, March 23]
Also forgot to mention, you can have them encrypt your mailbox with a password of your choosing; they do not store this password, so there is no way to recover this. If you choose to go with this option, make sure to keep a record of it safe.
Additionally, they allow for 2-factor authentication, as well as card- and cal-dav syncing of contacts and calendar to clients (ie mobile).