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Daum Mail (Kakao)

Free from Free. Based in South Korea.

Last checked 24 October 2026

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OverallNot rated
Privacy0.0
PriceNot rated
Features2.5

No overall score until I confirm the price.

Key facts

Cheapest plan
Free
Free
Free plan
Yes
Storage
Not confirmed
Your own domain
No
End-to-end encryption
No
Company based in
South Korea
Your data is kept in
South Korea
Founded
Unknown
Free trial
Unknown
Funded by advertising
Yes, or its parent company is
Works in any mail app
βœ“ IMAP and SMTP
Calendar and contacts
No
Aliases
Yes
Open-source apps
No
Sign up without ID
No
White label
Unknown
Reader offer
None

From our records, not yet confirmed: plans, prices and storage

Daum Mail (Kakao) email addresses end in @daum.net, @hanmail.net.

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Trust score

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Still being checked

My Trust score counts only things Daum Mail (Kakao) controls: reliability, abuse handling, email security, account security, transparency, fair dealing and support. It doesn't change the stars above. I'll show a score once I've had a week of my own checks. So far 0.5 points are confirmed. How it's worked out

Reliability 0 of 1

  • Website uptime over 30 daysFrom my hourly checks. 99% or more scores in full, 98% scores 0.75, 97% scores 0.5 and 95% scores 0.25. Needs a week of checks.Not checked yet: 0/1

Abuse and reputation 0 of 0.75

  • Mail servers kept off blocklists for 30 daysFrom my daily checks of the free blocklists. A listing only counts if I see it on two separate days.Not checked yet: 0/0.5
  • Publishes a way to report abuseNot checked yet: 0/0.25

Email security on its own domain 0.2 of 1

  • DMARC set to rejectFrom my DNS checks of the domain its mail comes from.No: 0/0.4
  • MTA-STS, so mail to it can't be quietly downgradedFrom my DNS checks.No: 0/0.2
  • DNSSEC on its domainFrom my DNS checks.No: 0/0.2
  • Website on HTTPS with HSTSFrom my website checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2

Account security 0 of 0.5

  • Two-step sign-inNot checked yet: 0/0.25
  • PasskeysNot checked yet: 0/0.25

Transparency 0 of 0.75

  • A security contact (security.txt or a security page)Not checked yet: 0/0.25
  • A transparency report, or a published policy on government requestsNot checked yet: 0/0.25
  • A published security audit, or a bug bountyNot checked yet: 0/0.25

Fair dealing 0.25 of 0.5

  • You can copy all your mail out with any mail app (IMAP)Yes: 0.25/0.25
  • You can cancel onlineNot checked yet: 0/0.25

Support 0 of 0.5

  • A way to reach a person, listed on its websiteNot checked yet: 0/0.25
  • A public status pageNot checked yet: 0/0.25

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Plans

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Cheapest plan I know: Free, Free.

Before you sign up

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Taking your email with you
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How to cancel
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Refunds
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Minimum term
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Price when it renews
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After you close your account
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Getting help
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Taken from Daum Mail (Kakao)'s own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.

Reviews

App Store 5.0

These are other people's ratings, taken from each site on the date shown. They don't change my stars, which come only from the facts.

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Features

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Policies and contacts

0 of 5 found
Privacy policy
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Acceptable use policy
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Terms of service
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Report abuse
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Contact
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Track record

No known breaches
Known data breaches
βœ“ None on record for daum.net

From public sources, last read on 31 October 2026: breaches from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0), which lists breaches of the provider's own site, not of every account that uses it; incidents as the provider reports them. None of this changes my stars.

Company and servers

Founded, owner, servers, uptime and blocklists
Founded
Unknown Suggest an edit
Domain first registered
1996 (daum.net)
Website hosted in
South Korea (Kakao Corp)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in.
Mail servers
South Korea (Kakao Corp)
mx3.hanmail.net, mx2.hanmail.net, mx1.hanmail.net
Mail security records
SPF soft (~all) Β· DMARC monitoring only Β· No MTA-STS Β· No TLS reporting
Blocklists
βœ“ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 3 of its mail servers
Name servers run by
Kakao Corp
DNSSEC
Not signed
IPv6
Not yet
Website certificate
DigiCert Inc Β· TLS 1.2
Home page answered in
3.8 seconds Β· HTTPS with HSTS

My automatic checks last ran on 31 October 2026. Server countries come from their IP addresses (IP geolocation by DB-IP), and big providers often run servers in many countries. Blocklists are the free lists that answer public look-ups.

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Price history

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Sources

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