Mailo vs Riseup Email

Mailo is an email service available on the web and through Android and iOS apps, with calendar, address book, cloud and sharing services. Its free plan includes 1 GB of email storage, 500 MB for documents and photos, five aliases, advertising banners, and IMAP4 and EAS access. Premium is listed at €1.50 per month and expands the mailbox to 20 GB, with 5 GB for a virtual disk and photo albums and up to 100 aliases. Premium also removes webmail advertising, supports attachments up to 50 MB and provides POP3 or IMAP4 access. It includes a lifetime email address, and the offer can be activated for one to five years. Mailo says it stores data in France, does not use or sell it, and does not read messages; listed features also include end-to-end encryption and custom domains. Migration tools can retrieve messages, contacts and events from an old provider and set up forwarding. Mailo says it offers responsive, personalized support in English.

Riseup Email is a free email account available through webmail or a mail client. Riseup describes the service as part of movement-run communications infrastructure for activists and allies. New accounts require an invite code from someone who trusts the applicant, and each account has 1 GB of storage. Riseup recommends Thunderbird and lists mail-client options for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS. Clients connect using IMAP or POP, with SMTP for outgoing mail. Riseup says messages are individually encrypted on its servers and can be unlocked with the account password, but the service is not end-to-end or client encrypted unless users add Mailvelope or another OpenPGP solution. It says it does not log users’ internet addresses or include the sender’s IP address in outgoing email. Riseup services have Tor onion services, and email to certain activist providers is delivered over them. Trash messages are deleted after 21 days and Spam after 7 days. Riseup does not back up all old messages, so users are responsible for keeping their own copies. The service is funded entirely by small user donations.