Fastmail Email vs mail.de

Fastmail Email provides email, calendars, contacts, and file storage for individuals, families, and businesses. Mail tools include search, pinning, snooze, scheduled sending, offline support, and private memos on messages. Fastmail says its paid service has no ads, personal-data mining, or third-party sharing. It says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest, supports TLS 1.3 and Perfect Forward Secrecy, and offers two-step verification and passkeys. Customers can choose the EU or US as their primary data residency. Fastmail offers apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, plus a browser app. Access protocols include JMAP, IMAP, POP, SMTP, CardDAV, CalDAV, and WebDAV; OAuth is documented for third-party clients. Fastmail does not provide end-to-end encryption in its own apps, though PGP or S/MIME can be used through supported third-party apps. Plans range from Basic at $4 a month to Family at $14 a month, with different storage and account allowances. The service is paid, has no free plan, and offers a 30-day trial. Every plan includes 24/7 expert support from real people.

mail.de is an email service available on the web, iOS, and Android, with IMAP/SMTP support and end-to-end encryption listed. The provider is based in Gütersloh, Germany, and was founded in 2009. Two free plans are listed: FreeMail Zero has 500 MB of storage, a 25-email daily limit, and a 60 MB attachment size; FreeMail includes 1 GB, one email alias, and a 50-email daily limit. Paid plans start with PureMail at €0.99 per month, billed under a 12-month contract with the total amount due at the beginning of the term. PureMail includes 2.5 GB of storage, one alias, and 100 emails per day. PlusMail costs €2.49 per month and includes 5 GB and 10 aliases; ProMail costs €3.99 per month with 20 GB and 20 aliases. PowerMail costs €6.49 per month and provides unlimited storage and 30 aliases. The paid plans have daily email limits ranging from 100 to 5,000, and a 30-day trial is listed.