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mail.de

PureMail from €0.99 a month. Based in Germany.

Last checked 25 October 2026

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Overall3.5
Privacy3.0
Price5.0
Features3.0

How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.

Key facts

Cheapest plan
PureMail
€0.99 a month
Free plan
Yes, 1 GB, with adverts
Storage
2.5 GB
Your own domain
No
End-to-end encryption
Optional (PGP or encrypted storage)
Company based in
Germany
Your data is kept in
Germany
Founded
Unknown
Free trial
30 days free on paid plans
Funded by advertising
Yes, or its parent company is
Works in any mail app
✓ IMAP and SMTP
Calendar and contacts
✓ Yes
Aliases
Yes
Open-source apps
No
Sign up without ID
No
White label
Unknown
Reader offer
None

Paid plans are 12-month contracts

mail.de email addresses end in @mail.de.

Trust score

Still being checked
Still being checked

My Trust score counts only things mail.de 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 2.3 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 0.25 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 abuseYes: 0.25/0.25

Email security on its own domain 0.8 of 1

  • DMARC set to quarantine (reject scores in full)From my DNS checks of the domain its mail comes from.Partly: 0.2/0.4
  • MTA-STS, so mail to it can't be quietly downgradedFrom my DNS checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
  • DNSSEC on its domainFrom my DNS checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2
  • Website on HTTPS with HSTSFrom my website checks.Yes: 0.2/0.2

Account security 0.5 of 0.5

  • Two-step sign-inYes: 0.25/0.25
  • PasskeysYes: 0.25/0.25

Transparency 0.25 of 0.75

  • A security contact (security.txt or a security page) SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
  • 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 0.25 of 0.5

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

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Plans

5 plans
FreeMail£0, with adverts (1 GB)
PureMail€0.99 a month (2.5 GB, no adverts)
PlusMail€2.49 a month (5 GB, 10 aliases)
ProMail€3.99 a month (20 GB, 20 aliases)
PowerMail€6.49 a month (40 GB, grows by 1 GB a month when full)

Prices as listed when I checked, before any tax. Dollar and euro prices are what the provider charges.

Before you sign up

Not checked yet
Taking your email with you
Unknown Suggest an edit
How to cancel
Unknown Suggest an edit
Refunds
Unknown Suggest an edit
Minimum term
Unknown Suggest an edit
Price when it renews
Unknown Suggest an edit
After you close your account
Unknown Suggest an edit
Getting help
Unknown Suggest an edit

Taken from mail.de's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.

Reviews

Trustpilot 3.8

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

2 of 22 offered, 20 still to check

Policies and contacts

3 of 5 found
Privacy policy
mail.de/en/privacy
Acceptable use policy
Unknown Suggest an edit
Terms of service
mail.de/en/tos
Report abuse
abuse@mail.de
Contact
Unknown Suggest an edit

Track record

No known breaches
Known data breaches
✓ None on record for mail.de

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
Unknown Suggest an edit
Website hosted in
Germany (SOPRADO GmbH)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in.
Mail servers
Germany (SOPRADO GmbH)
mx01.mail.de, mx02.mail.de
Mail security records
SPF soft (~all) · DMARC quarantine · MTA-STS ✓ · TLS reporting ✓ · DANE ✓
Blocklists
✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 2 of its mail servers
Name servers run by
ipcom GmbH
DNSSEC
✓ Signed
IPv6
✓ website and mail servers
Website certificate
Let's Encrypt · TLS 1.3
Home page answered in
444 ms · 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.

mail.de home page

Screenshot
The mail.de home page, as my checks saw it
Captured by my automatic checks on 31 October 2026.

News

Latest headlines
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From mail.de's own blog and social accounts, and from tech and security news sites. I show the headline and its first few lines, and link to the full story where it was published.

Price history

2 prices since 22 October 2026

Cheapest plan per month, in pounds. Prices charged in dollars or euros are converted at a rough rate. Every change I find is added here with its date.

£0£1£2£32026
  • 25 October 2026 €0.99 a month, when I checked
  • 22 October 2026 €2.49 a month, when I checked

Sources

3 sources

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