Posteo: Anonymous mail account - all costs at a glance

Posteo promises a secure mail account, the mails of which cannot be traced. We have researched the costs for the anonymous e-mail account for you.

Posteo - the most important facts

Long before the NSA affair, a small team in Berlin had been thinking about secure and, above all, really private e-mail traffic and founded the Posteo e-mail service in 2009. The most important facts:

1. The Posteo-Mail account is completely anonymous if you want to. Accordingly, you have the option to pay anonymously with the email provider.
2. The servers are located in Germany and are therefore subject to the German data protection law. In addition, the servers are operated 100 percent with green electricity.
3. Posteo uses comprehensive TLS encryption. This applies to both access to your account and the sending of emails. The prerequisite is, of course, that the other server also supports this procedure. If you only want an email to be sent via TLS and the recipient does not accept this, the transfer will be canceled. You will be informed if no transmission was possible via the secure route.
4. The server hard drives are AES encrypted and backups are made daily. These are kept for seven days so that you can have emails deleted prematurely if necessary.
5. You can also secure your account using two-factor authentication.
6. If you use an email client, you can access your emails via POP3 as well as IMAP.
7. Posteo's customer service is free and very good. An inquiry was answered comprehensively within 20 minutes. The Posteo e-mail service completely does without advertising.

Emails at Posteo - that costs you anonymity

The prices at the e-mail provider Posteo are staggered. The standard package already offers some convenience, is very inexpensive and sufficient for many private accounts. In addition, you have the option to expand your email subject.

• The Posteo standard package costs EUR 1 per month and includes a two gigabyte mailbox. Of course, your account is completely ad-free. The mail attachments can be up to 50 MB in size. An address book, a calendar and two alias addresses also belong to the standard Posteo package.
• If you need additional storage, you can add another 20 GB to your mailbox. Each additional GByte costs you 25 cents extra per month.
• Additional alias addresses are given for 10 cents each month.
• You also cost 10 cents a month for additional calendars.

Pay anonymously at Posteo - how it works

You can also pay for your Posteo email inbox anonymously.

• You pay for your anonymous email account via PayPal, bank transfer or cash letter.
• If you pay via PayPal or bank transfer, your deposit data will not be linked to the respective mailbox.
• For cash letter payments, you can deposit either 15 or 20 euros anonymously. To enable the money to be allocated, you will receive a payment code from Posteo in advance, which you will enclose with your letter.