Alternatives to Purelymail
Low-cost email hosting for your own domains, with IMAP, POP3, SMTP and optional webmail. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Purelymail
Low-cost email hosting for your own domains, with IMAP, POP3, SMTP and optional webmail.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Purelymail.
Migadu
Email hosting for custom domains, priced by usage rather than by mailbox, with webmail.
Migadu is usage-priced hosting for custom domains with unlimited addresses per domain, webmail and free DNS setup help, and no ads or tracking.
Fastmail
A paid, privacy-focused email, calendar and contacts service with web and mobile apps.
Fastmail costs more but adds calendar, contacts, Android and iOS apps and EU or USA data residency for custom domains.
Zoho Mail
An ad-free hosted business email service for custom domains with calendar, contacts, notes and tasks.
Zoho Mail is paid business hosting for custom domains with calendar, notes, tasks and 24-hour human support.
mailbox.org
A German email and workspace service with mail, cloud storage, video meetings and office tools.
mailbox.org is a German paid service with storage, meetings and office tools, hosted under GDPR with ISO 27001 certification.
Posteo
German ad-free email provider with calendar, address book and notes, run on green energy.
Posteo is a low fixed-price German provider with calendar and contact sync and signup without personal details, but only 4 GB base storage.
Runbox
A paid, ad-free email service hosted in Norway and powered by renewable energy.
Runbox is a paid, ad-free Norwegian service running on renewable hydropower, with a fully functional 30-day trial.
Mailfence
Encrypted email service from Belgium with OpenPGP support, calendars, contacts and document storage.
Mailfence adds OpenPGP encryption, calendar and document storage with custom domains, placing advanced features on paid plans.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Thunderbird
Mozilla’s desktop mail client, with calendar, contacts and a unified inbox, funded by donations rather than ads.
Mox
An all-in-one open-source mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email.
Roundcube
A self-hosted, browser-based IMAP webmail client written in PHP.
Mail-in-a-Box
Turnkey open-source script that builds a full mail server on Ubuntu.
