Email service
Mail Solo
Mail Solo is a single-mailbox offshore email account — IMAP, SMTP, POP3, Roundcube webmail, custom-domain support, ten gigabytes of storage, anonymous signup. It exists for the journalist, activist or researcher who needs a mail address that survives a domestic press order, supports PGP, and is paid for outside the financial surface of a card processor.
$3 per month
- 10 GB
Specification
- Storage
- 10 GB
- Uptime SLA
- 99.9%
- Notes
- IMAP, POP3, SMTP; Webmail (Roundcube); Custom domain optional
Who this plan suits
A single journalist whose source-correspondence cannot live on an in-jurisdiction mailhost, an activist whose domestic provider has a history of cooperating with disclosure orders the threat model considers hostile, a freelance researcher whose work crosses jurisdictions and whose mail surface needs to match, a dissident rebuilding a public-correspondence surface after a deplatforming event. One mailbox is sufficient when the user's PGP setup is solid and the threat model treats the operator as untrusted.
It is undersized for a small newsroom team or a research group whose collaboration includes shared address books and shared calendars — Mail Team is the honest answer there. It is undersized for an organisation running its own multi-domain mailhost — Mail Unlimited covers that case. PGP is supported but not enforced: the reader's correspondents may not have configured PGP, and the operator's role is not to lecture them.
Where this plan can be operated
Mail Solo can be deployed in Iceland or Switzerland. Both jurisdictions have established mail-server jurisprudence that resists fishing-expedition disclosure: ProtonMail v UVEK A-550/2019 in Switzerland (alongside the BÜPF and revFADP framework) and the IMMI / Resolution 23/138 framework in Iceland produce courtroom postures where a foreign disclosure order must clear a specific-suspicion threshold rather than a fishing expedition.
For most single-user mail deployments, the deciding factor is the user's threat model relative to specific adversaries. Where the adversary is an EU domestic prosecutor with bilateral cooperation channels, Iceland's geographical and treaty distance is the more conservative answer. Where the adversary is a US-style civil-procedure attack, both jurisdictions are roughly equivalent and latency to the user's most-frequent correspondents matters more. The full cash payment route is supported on this plan and is the cleanest financial surface for users who prefer not to operate a Monero wallet.
What the operator sees, and what it does not
Mail is harder than VPS to make opaque to the operator: the SMTP protocol requires the operator to see envelope metadata in order to deliver, and any mailhost that claims otherwise is misrepresenting its operational reality. We see, mechanically: the envelope metadata of in-flight mail (sender, recipient, timestamps, subject if it transits unencrypted SMTP from a remote mailhost), the IMAP login IP and timestamp, billing metadata, and the volume of stored mail. We do not retain message bodies beyond what the user keeps in their own IMAP folders.
What we cannot see, and what a sober reader should verify by configuring rather than trusting: the contents of PGP-encrypted bodies, the contents of TLS-protected SMTP flows from cooperating mailhosts (which are most modern providers), the relationship between the billing identity and the mailbox identity (we do not require they match), the metadata of in-transit mail past the moment it leaves our infrastructure. The operator's role narrows to the delivery layer; everything else is the customer's. Payment in Monero, Lightning, on-chain Bitcoin, or cash.
Jurisdictions
The offering is available from the jurisdictions listed below. The choice between them is made at the order step; this section discloses what the choice is, so the reader knows before the form opens.
- Iceland Reykjavik
- Switzerland Zurich
Ordering this plan
The order step confirms the jurisdiction, the payment rail, and the contact detail before any service is provisioned. Questions about the plan or migration ahead of an order go through the contact form.