I am looking to migrate my personal mail to a free service that has reasonable storage space, supports IMAP, and is headquartered in the EU. So far GMX.com is the only one that fits the bill, but the free tier benefits are a bit too generous. Is there a catch?
I know you specifically requested a free service but if you can spare 1€ a month for it, I highly recommend mailbox.org
I’ve heard great things about it, and I might even take it since it’s one measly euro. But still, I want to see what is offered for free
Former admin here, ama.
Can only report positive things from the inside, good people with moral compass there, not a thing I say often. Mail.com is also owned by the company.
Of course it’s often tried to get you to pay more by pushing you to subscribe pro features.
I have had it for more than a decade and just switched away. Apparently a lot of spam is sent through them, so I had an issue where an email I sent bounced back. Also their incoming spam filter is bad causing me a five-day delay on one important business email. They also have ads which I don’t really mind since I use adblock anyway. The mailbox cannot be set in new outlook and all automatic filters are quite primitive to set. I haven’t seen any updates at all to it in the decade either, so wouldn’t be surprised if it had a ton of security vulnerabilities. I didn’t know they offer any paid services.
I’ve just switched to posteo , they are located in Berlin, Everything seems to work well, but they cost (a minimum of) one euro a month - what I liked was that It is easy to scale up, and they appear to be very ecology conscious. Ad free, located in Berlin.
I had an account a long time ago, it was very good. They unfortunately deprecated the UI translations, so everything went German only, which was painful to navigate.
