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Disroot Email vs Private-Mail

Disroot Email

disroot.org

Private-Mail

privatemail.com

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FigureDisroot EmailPrivate-Mail
Price fromFree$8.95/mo
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open sourceYes—
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
iOSYesYes
AndroidYesYes
Plans published64
Spec score · Private Email Services9.4 (#2)8.2 (#14)
Spec score · Secure Email Providers9.4 (#2)8.0 (#19)
Spec score · Email providers8.9 (#9)8.0 (#16)
Custom domainYesYes
End-to-end encryptionDisroot recommends GPG for end-to-end email encryption and says Mailvelope can provide PGP encryption with webmail in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.Yes
Free planYesYes
SupportDisroot links to setup instructions for configuring email clients and says users can consult them for extra help.The site advertises 24/7 support and provides phone, live chat, and ticket support options.

Plans

Disroot Email

  • FreePrice not published
  • Free emailFree
  • Free mailboxFree
  • Extra mailbox storage€0.15 a month
  • Custom domain linkingPrice not published
  • Extra storagePrice not published

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Private-Mail

  • Standard Plan$8.95 a month
  • PrivateMail Pro$15.95 a month
  • Business GroupShare$64.95 a month
  • Business Pro$64.95 a month

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In their own words

Disroot Email

Disroot Email provides free email accounts through webmail and desktop or mobile email clients. Its Roundcube webmail includes threaded messages, filters, folders, attachment previews, and MIME and HTML support. Mail clients can connect using IMAP over SSL, SMTP with STARTTLS, SMTPS with TLS, or POP over SSL; suggested options include Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail, ClawsMail, Mailpile, K-9 Mail, FairEmail, and iOS Mail. Connections to the mail server use SSL, while outgoing messages use TLS if the recipient’s server supports it. Messages remain unencrypted on Disroot’s servers unless users encrypt them themselves. Disroot says its data is stored on its own servers in a Netherlands data center. Email logs may include usernames, IP addresses, and sender and recipient addresses; they are retained for 48 hours and not backed up. The free email plan includes a 1 GB mailbox and 64 MB attachments. Plus addressing routes sub-addresses to the original mailbox. Users can link a custom domain for sending and receiving mail through a lifetime feature tied to a donation amount they choose. The service supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and extensions.

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Private-Mail

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