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AnhourMail is private, low-cost email hosting: a free address at anhourmail.com, or your own domain on the paid plans, with fast open-source webmail and every standard mail protocol. This page lists what works today, grouped the way people look for it, with a link to the guide for each. What isn't built yet is listed at the end.

Email on your own domainCopy Anchor Link

• Custom domain email on Plus and Supporter: add a domain you own and keep it with your registrar; you only add DNS records.
• Guided DNS setup. The console shows every record with a copy button and checks each one live, so you can see what's left. It works with any DNS provider.
• Signed mail. We create DKIM keys for your domain (an RSA key and an Ed25519 key) and show them as ready-to-paste records, alongside SPF and DMARC.
• Catch-all sends mail for addresses that don't exist at your domain to one mailbox.
• Automatic setup records (optional) let many mail apps fill in the server settings from your address.

Guides: Use your own domain · Catch-all

A free email addressCopy Anchor Link

Every account can claim one free address at anhourmail.com with 1 GB of storage, once it has confirmed its email address. Names that would pass for system or staff addresses are reserved, and a name is never handed out again.

Guide: Your free address

Email aliases and masked aliasesCopy Anchor Link

• Aliases are extra addresses that deliver to your mailbox, such as hello@ or shop@ on your domain.
• Masked aliases are random addresses you give to one site each, so the site never learns your real address.
• Switch any alias off when it starts getting spam, and back on later. A note on each reminds you where you used it. Reply from whichever address the mail came to.
• Plus addressing: add +anything after your name, with no setup.
• How many: on Free, 10 aliases and 10 masked aliases at a time; on the paid plans, up to 400 per mailbox, both kinds together.

Guide: Aliases and masked aliases

Private by defaultCopy Anchor Link

• No ads, no tracking, no profiling. Paid plans fund the service, and there's no analytics in the product or on this site.
• Remote images are blocked until you choose to load them, so tracking pixels can't report when you open a message. When you do load them, they come through our privacy proxy, so the sender never sees your IP address.
• Every message opens in a sandboxed frame with scripts off, after its HTML has been cleaned.
• Your mail stays out of our logs. Subjects, bodies and recipients never go into logs, analytics or the audit log.

Guides: Remote images · How messages are kept safe

Fast, open-source webmailCopy Anchor Link

The webmail at mail.anhourmail.com talks JMAP to the mail server, so it fetches only what changed instead of downloading whole folders.

• Conversations and folders: threads, archive, junk, move, pin favourite folders, and search with filters.
• Writing: rich text (sent with a plain-text copy), drafts, undo send, attachments, and named signatures.
• Several mailboxes in one session, and shared mailboxes opened by address in a tab of their own.
• Keyboard shortcuts for everything you do often.
• Settings that run on the server: automatic replies, confirmed forwarding, and blocked and safe senders, so they apply in every app you use.
• Your look: light and dark themes, density, reading pane, your photo and sender name.

Guides: Webmail · Webmail settings · Folders and signatures

Contacts that syncCopy Anchor Link

An address book beside your mail: add, edit and group contacts, import and export vCard files, and people you email are saved for you. Contacts sync to your phone and computer over CardDAV.

Guide: Contacts

IMAP, SMTP and JMAP for any mail appCopy Anchor Link

Use the webmail, the mail app you already like on your computer or phone, or both. Connections are always encrypted.

• App passwords: each mail app signs in with its own password, scoped to what it needs and shown once. Lose a phone, revoke its password, and nothing else changes.

Guides: Mail app settings · App passwords

Families and small teamsCopy Anchor Link

On Plus and Supporter, one account holds everyone, for one yearly price.

• People and roles: invite up to 10 people and give each a role (owner, domain, user or billing administrator, member, or read-only).
• Mailboxes: 10 included, sharing the account's 10 GB. Add a user and their mailbox in one go, set storage per mailbox, and suspend, delete or restore mailboxes.
• Shared mailboxes for addresses like support@ or family@, on your own domain or ours.
• Delegation: give someone Read and manage, Send as or Send on behalf on a mailbox, and convert a person's mailbox to a shared one when they leave, so no mail is lost.

Guides: People and roles · Mailboxes

Sign-in securityCopy Anchor Link

Two-factor sign-in with an authenticator app, recovery codes, and passkeys or security keys. Owners can require a second factor for everyone in the account, and you can see and end your sessions.

Guide: Sign-in security

AccountabilityCopy Anchor Link

An append-only, tamper-evident audit log records every change in your account and who made it. When Anhourtec support needs to look at your console, it's read-only, short, explained and shown in your audit log.

Guide: Audit log

Your data, and leavingCopy Anchor Link

• Export your mail and contacts whenever you like: one .mbox file per folder and a vCard file, straight from your mailbox. Account owners can also export the account's settings and audit log.
• Delete your account with a 14-day grace period you can cancel.

Guide: Export your data and delete your account

Open source and self-hostingCopy Anchor Link

The webmail, console and this site are open source (AGPL-3.0), the reusable libraries MIT. The mail server is Stalwart, run unmodified. You can read the code, and run the stack yourself.

Guide: Self-hosting · Credits

PricingCopy Anchor Link

A free plan, and low-cost yearly plans priced per account rather than per person:

Full details, including storage and extra mailboxes, are on the pricing page.

Not built yetCopy Anchor Link

We list these so nothing here reads as a promise:

• Paying for a plan. Billing opens with the beta; until then the prices above are planned prices.
• Importing mail and contacts from another provider. Until it arrives, any mail app can copy mail over IMAP (see switching).
• Newsletters and bulk sending, a paid add-on for Plus and Supporter (coming later).
• Instant push in the webmail. Today it checks for new mail while it's open.