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Free mail: everything it includes

A gigabyte mailbox, an address on one of five domains, access from a browser and from any mail program. No charge, no card details, no advertising inside your messages. Here is everything there is — and what there is not.

What is included

Mailbox size
1 GB
One message with attachments
up to 25 MB
Access
IMAP, SMTP, webmail
Domains to choose from
5
Spam filtering
on
Filters and out-of-office
yes, set up in webmail
Two-factor protection
yes
Term
indefinite, as long as you sign in at least twice a year

An address of your choosing

The mailbox can sit on any of our domains — alpost.ch, alpost.me, notabox.in, wpost.me, solkarion.com. What you can do is identical; only how the address looks and sounds differs.

These are not five different services: one mail system, one server, one set of settings. If the name you want is taken on one domain, it is almost certainly free on another.

Three ways to read your mail

Webmail — at mail.alpost.ch, with the same look as the site. Nothing to install, works from any device.

A mail program — iPhone, Android, Thunderbird, Outlook. The settings are the same for every domain and are gathered in the guide "Set up mail on a phone or in a mail program".

Both at once: messages live on the server, not on the device. What you read on the phone is read in the browser too.

How much you can send

The limits grow with the age of the mailbox. This is not distrust of you personally: it is how one keeps out the person who opens a mailbox for a single mailshot and abandons it.

First 24 hours
10 messages, up to 3 recipients each
1 to 7 days
30 messages, up to 10 recipients
7 to 30 days
50 messages, up to 20 recipients
Over 30 days
100 messages, up to 30 recipients

The spam filter

Incoming mail is checked before it reaches the mailbox: the sender’s signature, their reputation, the content, the links inside. Anything suspect goes to the Spam folder rather than being deleted — the verdict can always be revisited.

The filter learns from what you do. Move a message out of Spam into the inbox and it remembers.

Protecting the mailbox

Three things worth switching on the first day, each with a guide of its own:

  1. Backup codes — the only way back in if the password is forgotten.
  2. Two-factor protection — a code from an app on top of the password.
  3. App passwords — separate passwords for mail programs, revoked one at a time.

How delivery itself is protected

This part is usually invisible, yet it decides whether a message arrives and whether anyone reads it on the way.

  1. Messages are signed with a 2048-bit DKIM key — the recipient can see they were not tampered with.
  2. SPF with a strict refusal: nobody can send as you from another server.
  3. DMARC tells the recipient what to do with a forgery.
  4. The zones are DNSSEC-signed — our server’s address cannot be swapped en route.
  5. MTA-STS in enforce mode and DANE: another server must deliver to us over an encrypted channel and only to the host we named. Most mail services have neither.

What is not here

  1. POP3 — IMAP only. POP3 takes messages off the server, leaving nothing on your other devices; for mail read on both a phone and a computer it is more of a trap than a feature.
  2. Aliases — additional addresses for one mailbox — are not available yet.
  3. Importing mail from another mailbox is not available yet; messages have to be moved by hand with a mail program.
  4. Advertising inside messages does not exist and will not: the service lives on advertising on the pages of the website.

If you stay away for six months

After 180 days without a single sign-in, the mailbox and everything in it is deleted. Ten days before that we put a warning into the mailbox itself and send it to your recovery address, if you gave one.

Any sign-in cancels the deletion. Opening webmail twice a year is enough.