Create a free email account without a phone number

Free email without a phone number or ID: a mailbox on one of five domains, recovery codes instead of SMS, and a recovery address in case you lose the password.

Why we do not ask for your phone number

Sign-up forms usually ask for a phone number for two reasons: to stop people creating mailboxes in bulk, and to give access back when a password is forgotten. We solve both differently, so there is no phone verification — not at sign-up, and not later.

Bulk sign-ups are held back by a check in your browser, a limit of one sign-up every 48 hours from one internet address, and sending limits that grow with the age of the mailbox. Access comes back through recovery codes and a recovery address.

No documents, payment details or real name are needed either.

How to create an email account without a phone

Open the sign-up page — the “Create mailbox” button on the front page.
Choose a mailbox name and a domain. The name is 3 to 32 characters: Latin letters, digits, dot, dash and underscore, starting with a letter or digit. Service names such as admin, support and postmaster are reserved.
Choose a password of at least 10 characters. It must not contain the mailbox name.
Enter a recovery address — another mailbox you read. The field is optional, but it is your second way back in without a phone.
Tick that you accept the terms and press “Create mailbox”. The robot check runs in your browser while you fill in the form, and the button becomes active when it is done. There is no third-party captcha on the page.
The next page shows ten recovery codes of sixteen digits each. They are shown once — save them before you close the page.
The mailbox works straight away: the “Open the mailbox” button takes you to webmail.

An address on one of five domains

You can create the mailbox on any of these domains. They all work the same: one mail system, one server, one set of settings; only the look of the address differs. If a name is taken on one domain, try it on another.

alpost.ch
alpost.me
notabox.in
wpost.me
solkarion.com

How to recover access without a phone

Instead of SMS, there are three routes. The first two work without us; the third takes days and does not always succeed. We do not restore access on the strength of documents.

A recovery code. On the account recovery page, enter the mailbox address and one of the codes, then set a new password. Each code works once; the others stay valid.
A confirmed recovery address. A password reset link is sent to it; the link works for 30 minutes and only once. An address that was never confirmed through the link in our email will not do.
A request with questions about the mailbox. If you have neither codes nor a confirmed address, file a request and give another mailbox for the answer. How it works is described below.

How a recovery request works

We write to the address you gave and ask questions only the owner can answer: about messages, folders and the history of the mailbox. The answers are checked by software: the person handling the request sees only “matches” or “does not match”, never the messages themselves. Each question gets one attempt.

If the check passes, the password does not change at once. There is a three-day wait: a message with a cancellation link goes to the mailbox itself and to the confirmed recovery address. If you did not file the request, open the link and cancel it.

If the mailbox is almost empty — no recent messages and no folders of your own — there is nothing to prove ownership with, and the request has to be declined. This happens most often with new mailboxes, which is why the codes and the recovery address are worth saving on day one.

What is limited for a new mailbox

Without phone verification, sending limits are what protects against bulk mail. They grow with the age of the mailbox: someone who opens a mailbox for a single mass mailing needs volume at once, and at once is exactly when it is smallest.

The daily count resets at 00:00 UTC. How much you can send right now is shown in your account, in the Summary.

Public links to Disk files can be created once the mailbox is older than 7 days.

First 24 hours: 10 messages a day and no more than 5 an hour, up to 3 recipients per message and 10 a day
1 to 7 days: 30 messages a day and no more than 10 an hour, up to 10 recipients per message and 50 a day
7 to 30 days: 50 messages a day and no more than 10 an hour, up to 20 recipients per message and 100 a day
Over 30 days: 100 messages a day and no more than 20 an hour, up to 30 recipients per message and 100 a day

What to do on day one

Save the recovery codes outside this mailbox: in a password manager or on paper. A new set is issued in your account, under Security; the old codes stop working at that moment.
Confirm the recovery address with the link in our email — it works for 48 hours. If you left the address out at sign-up or missed the deadline, add it or send the email again in the same section of your account.
If you want a second step at sign-in, turn on two-factor protection. The code comes from an authenticator app; no phone number or SMS is needed. Details are in the guide “Turn on two-factor protection”.
Sign in at least once every six months: under the terms of service, a mailbox nobody has signed into for 180 days is deleted together with its mail.

What is not here

No SMS and no calls — not at sign-up, not for recovery, not as a second step at sign-in.
No recovery by documents, even if you are ready to show them.
No way to get the mailbox back if you have neither codes nor a confirmed recovery address, and nothing in the mailbox itself shows that it is yours.
No promise that nothing is known about you. We have no phone number and no documents, but we keep the date the mailbox was created and the time and address of the last sign-in; the sending log for 7 days, mail server logs for 30 days, website logs with the visitor’s address for 14 days. The full list is on the page “What we store”.