Email service
Anonymous email hosting from a privacy-friendly jurisdiction
The email service is a small, opinionated mailhost rather than a consumer mail product. The reader gets IMAP, SMTP, a webmail interface, anti-spam filtering, and the option to bring a custom domain. There are no integrated calendars, no document editors, and no AI-assistance features; the brief is to deliver mail reliably from a jurisdiction whose courts ask careful questions before they compel a host to act, and that brief alone.
The three tiers below differ only in mailbox count and storage. Anonymous signup is supported on all of them; payment is in Monero, Lightning, on-chain Bitcoin, or cash by post. End-to-end PGP is supported but not enforced — the reader's correspondents may not have set it up, and the operator's job is not to lecture them.
Each plan in the ledger below carries its own dossier with the operational framing — what the operator sees mechanically (envelope metadata is unavoidable in SMTP), what the operator deliberately does not retain (message bodies, application-layer logs, the relationship between billing identity and mailbox identity), and how PGP and TLS-protected SMTP narrow the residual visibility. The journal entry After Snowden — what changed in privacy hosting frames the post-2013 mail-deliverability and surveillance reality these plans operate in.
The offering
- Mail Solo $3/mo
- 10 GB
- Mail Team $9/mo
- 50 GB total
- Mail Unlimited $19/mo
- Unlimited fair-use
Who this offering serves
The mailhost serves journalists whose source-correspondence cannot live on an in-jurisdiction provider, activists whose domestic mail provider has cooperated with disclosure orders the threat model considers hostile, NGO IT leads consolidating a small team's mail surface, and organisations running their own multi-domain mailhost. The three tiers cover the single-mailbox case (one journalist, one activist, one researcher), the small-team case (newsroom of three to five, NGO regional chapter), and the organisation case (a federated NGO, a press-freedom consortium with multiple member outlets).
Projects that need a consumer mailhost with integrated calendar, document editor, AI-assistance features and a polished mobile app should look elsewhere — the editorial brief here is sober mail delivery, not a productivity suite. The Mail Solo, Mail Team, and Mail Unlimited dossiers cover the per-tier framing in detail, including the operator's metadata posture and the technical boundary at which the operator's visibility ends.
Where the mailhost operates
Every mailbox is operated from Iceland or Switzerland. Mail-server jurisprudence in both jurisdictions has been tested in court: Switzerland's anchor is the ProtonMail v UVEK A-550/2019 decision of the Federal Administrative Tribunal, which set the procedural threshold a foreign-jurisdiction request must clear before a Swiss mailhost is compelled to disclose; Iceland's anchor is the IMMI framework and the Whistleblower Protection Act of 2020, which extend source-protection obligations to the mail layer. Both jurisdictions reject fishing-expedition disclosure as a matter of established case-law.
Custom domains are supported on every tier. The public-facing mail surface need not reflect the operator's domain — a publication can operate editorial@theirpublication.org from either jurisdiction while keeping its operating identity and its publishing identity separate. The full comparative framing of the two jurisdictions for mail workloads sits at Iceland versus Switzerland for civil-liberties hosting.
Each plan has its own page below with the full specification, the jurisdictions it is operated from, and the operator's contact email for questions about migration from another mailhost.