Posteo
Posteo from €1 a month. Based in Germany.
Last checked 22 October 2026
How these stars are worked out. Commission never changes a star.
Key facts
- Cheapest plan
- Posteo
€1 a month - Free plan
- No
- Storage
- 4 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
- 2009
- Free trial
- No, €1 a month from the start
- Funded by advertising
- No
- Works in any mail app
- ✓ IMAP and SMTP
- Calendar and contacts
- ✓ Yes
- Aliases
- Yes (posteo.de only)
- Open-source apps
- ✓ Yes
- Sign up without ID
- ✓ Yes
- White label
- No
- Reader offer
- None
Storage was 2 GB in older reviews
Posteo email addresses end in @posteo.de, @posteo.net, @posteo.org, @posteo.eu, @posteo.at, @posteo.ch.
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Trust score
Still being checked
My Trust score counts only things Posteo 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 2.1 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 abuse SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
Email security on its own domain 0.6 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.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)Not checked yet: 0/0.25
- A transparency report, or a published policy on government requests SourceYes: 0.25/0.25
- A published security audit, or a bug bountyNot checked yet: 0/0.25
Fair dealing 0.25 of 0.5
- You can export all your mail SourceYes: 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
1 plan
Posteo
- Paying monthly
- €1 a month
- Storage
- 4 GB (up to 75 GB at €0.25 a GB a month)
- People
- 1
- Own domains
- None
- Email addresses
- A few aliases included, more at €0.10 a month each
- Also includes
- Calendar, address book, encrypted storage, no personal details needed to sign up
Prices as listed when I checked, before any tax. Dollar and euro prices are what the provider charges. Tap a plan to see what's included.
Before you sign up
5 of 7 checked
- Taking your email with you
- Works with standard mail apps (IMAP and POP3), so you can copy your mail out Their page ↗
- How to cancel
- Cancel within the month with 14 days' notice Their page ↗
- Refunds
- You pay in advance; if you leave they refund your remaining credit, or donate it to a charity if you prefer Their page ↗
- Minimum term
- Monthly, no long contract Their page ↗
- Price when it renews
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- After you close your account
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Getting help
- Email support from people (no bots), weekdays 7am to 7pm GMT, usually within one working day Their page ↗
Taken from Posteo's own pages. Policies change, so check their page before you pay.
Reviews
Trustpilot 3.1
Trustpilot
3.1 out of 5
From 194 reviews, checked 22 October 2026
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Features
11 of 22 offered, 6 still to check
- Your own domainNo
- Works in any mail app (IMAP)✓ Yes
- Calendar and contacts✓ Yes
- Open source✓ Yes
- White label (resell as your own)No
- Two-step sign-in✓ Yes
- Passkeys✓ Yes
- PGP encryption✓ Yes
- Password-protected email to anyoneUnknown Suggest an edit
- Catch-all addressNo
- Filters and rules✓ Yes
- Sieve filters✓ Yes
- Auto-reply✓ Yes
- Scheduled sendUnknown Suggest an edit
- Undo sendUnknown Suggest an edit
- Import from another provider✓ Yes
- Mobile appsNo
- Desktop appUnknown Suggest an edit
- POP3✓ Yes
- CalDAV and CardDAV sync✓ Yes
- JMAPNo
- Tor (onion) addressUnknown Suggest an edit
- Pay with cash or crypto✓ Yes
- Export all your mail✓ Yes
- APINo
- AI featuresNo
- Single sign-on (SSO)Unknown Suggest an edit
Policies and contacts
4 of 5 found
- Privacy policy
- posteo.de/en/site/privacy
- Acceptable use policy
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Terms of service
- posteo.de/en/site/terms
- Report abuse
- posteo.de/en/site/contact
- Contact
- posteo.de/en/site/contact
Track record
No known breaches
- Known data breaches
- ✓ None on record for posteo.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
- 2009
- Domain first registered
- Unknown Suggest an edit
- Website hosted in
- Germany (INTERNET AG Global Network)
Only the website. Where your mail is kept is under Your data is kept in. - Mail servers
- Germany (INTERNET AG Global Network)
mx01.posteo.de, mx02.posteo.de, mx03.posteo.de - Mail security records
- SPF soft (~all) · DMARC monitoring only · MTA-STS ✓ · TLS reporting ✓ · DANE ✓
- Blocklists
- ✓ Not listed on the 12 lists I check, for 4 of its mail servers
- Name servers run by
- Netnod AB
- DNSSEC
- ✓ Signed
- IPv6
- ✓ website
- Website certificate
- DigiCert Inc · TLS 1.3
- Home page answered in
- 278 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.
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Price history
1 price 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.
- 22 October 2026 €1 a month, when I checked
No earlier prices yet. The history starts from my first check.
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