StartMail is a privacy-first email service that keeps your inbox safe.
After successfully founding Startpage in 2006, we continued our mission to protect people’s online privacy by creating a fully private email solution. StartMail was launched in 2013.
Sending email is structurally unsafe. It’s like sending a postcard - which makes snooping easy. With StartMail you can enjoy secure, ad-free email communication without surveillance.
Unlike Big Tech email providers, we don't make money off tracking your email activity, profiling you or serving intrusive ads. Startmail will never serve you ads, and protects you from identity theft, spam and phishing attacks.
Need to provide an email address to sign up for an online service but want to protect your real identity? With StartMail you can generate unlimited disposable email addresses on the fly. Keeping your identity safe and your main email address free of spam.
Unencrypted email can be intercepted, and sensitive data can easily land in the wrong hands. With StartMail you can send encrypted emails to anyone, even if the recipient doesn’t use encryption. This ensures that other people can’t read your confidential messages, ever.
An email service built by the founders of Startpage - the world’s most private search engine
Watch our video to learn about the benefits!
"We believe that Privacy is a fundamental human right worth fighting for and your personal data should not be collected without your knowledge and consent. We created StartMail to keep your email safe from the prying eyes of Big Tech and Big Brother."
Robert Beens
Keep all your important messages safely stored in one place. With StartMail, you'll never have to worry about running out of space.
Unique extra email addresses you can create and delete at any time. Help to keep your main address exclusive, and prevent spam and phishing.
Send encrypted emails securely to anyone, anywhere. Even if the recipient does not use encryption, we allow you to set a password for them to receive and reply to your encrypted emails.
We make it easy to keep your emails secure with PGP encryption. With just one click, you can encrypt your email with PGP and ensure that only the intended recipients can read your message.
Easily transfer your contacts and emails from other providers with just a few clicks.
If you need help, we are there for you. Our support team consists of humans who use StartMail daily - no chatbots found here.
It's fast, easy to use and comes with all the bells and whistles you want! Stop selling your privacy to internet giants. Start using secure email with StartMail!
Joël
StartMail-User
I strongly recommend investing a few dollars/euros in a secure and private email provider, such as StartMail. I really love the fact that StartMail offers me the option to use “disposable” email addresses every time I make an online purchase. As such, I am not compromising my main email address."
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Frederic Carteron
Superior Court Judge
I am sooo excited to be signed up for your email services — and equally happy and relieved to cancel all my Gmail email accounts. Thank you all once again for creating and maintaining the highest ethical standards at StartMail.
Anonymous
StartMail-User
Premium privacy features and security make StartMail the ideal email service for individuals or businesses sending sensitive information regularly. With unlimited aliases, huge amounts of storage, and top-class encryption, StartMail is a no-brainer for those looking to move away from more easily hackable services like Gmail or Outlook.
Chelsea Forsyth
techradar.pro - The source for tech buying advice
Five Stars. I've been using StartMail for a few months now, and I really like it. The security features are awesome, and its very intuitive to use. It's so great to know that I am no longer beholden to companies like Google and Microsoft for my email. Definitely recommend.
Ron B.
StartMail-User
Free email isn't free — you pay with your privacy. That's why I now use StartMail to secure my email privacy. Dump the spy-mail and get your own StartMail account for pennies a day!
Kim Komando
Radio host of The Kim Komando Show - America's largest show about tech
I think StartMail is the best (not just one of the best) secure email provider in the entire world! It has the best help knowledge base among all secure email providers. Till date, I have never had to create a single support ticket to ask how to do something. Everything is so clearly explained and there’s not a single typo or grammatical error in the content.
Ramesh Kaimal
StartMail-User
A nice, easy email operation that doesn't spam with advertising and doesn't sell or market my mail. I'm so happy I switched and will gladly continue paying yearly for the peace, and security I have.
BrotherMatthews
StartMail-User
I have set up a lot of aliases that will be used for orders, subscriptions, etc. If one gets junk emails I can delete it and use others created for the same function.
Tennfarmer
StartMail-User
There are plenty of so-called “free” email services, but they aren’t really free. You pay with your privacy. Big Tech companies are creating detailed profiles of our personal lives and making billions by selling our data. They save your private messages and information, even after you delete it. This opens you up to intrusive ads, identity theft, spam and phishing attacks!
of people do not want their data used for personalized ads.
StartMail puts you back in control - no tracking, profiling, or intrusive ads.
of phishing emails are opened by their targets.
StartMail warns you every time you click an external link to protect you from phishing attempts and keep your personal data safe.
of all emails are spam.
StartMail lets you create disposable email addresses for every service you sign up for. This protects your inbox from spam and helps identify where data has been leaked.
Simple pricing for premium privacy
Private and encrypted email account with a StartMail domain (name@startmail.com)
Private and encrypted email account with your custom domain (name@customdomain.com)
StartMail is headquartered in the Netherlands, which means that your emails and data are protected by European privacy legislation (GDPR) - the strongest privacy laws in the world. Of course, our servers are located here too.
We protect your data, activity, and privacy with state-of-the-art security and technology.
