Disroot provides secure email accounts for your desktop client or via a web interface. The communication between you and the mail server is encrypted with SSL, providing as much privacy as possible. Furthermore, all the emails being sent out from our server are encrypted as well (TLS) if the recipients email server supports it. This means that emails are no longer sent as traditional "postcard", but are actually put in an "envelope".
Nevertheless, we encourage you to always be cautious when using email communication, and to make use of GPG end-to-end encryption to ensure your correspondence is as private as can be.
Webmail
You can access your mail from any devices by using our webmail at https://webmail.disroot.org
Or
Use your favorite email client
There are many desktop/mobile email clients to choose from.
Here are few suggestions.
Find the required settings, or if you need some extra help, check our Howto page for details on how to set up Disroot's email with your favourite client.
IMAP: disroot.org | SSL Port 993 | Authentication: Normal Password
SMTP: disroot.org | STARTTLS Port 587 | Authentication: Normal Password
SMTPS: disroot.org | TLS Port 465 | Authentication: Normal Password
POP: disroot.org | SSL Port 995 | Authentication: Normal Password
Mailbox size limit: 1 GB
Attachment size limit: 64 MB
Disroot webmail
Our is powered by Roundcube. Roundcube is a modern approach to webmail. It's simple, fast and provides most of the features one could expect from webmail:
Responsive skin:
A beautiful Disroot flavor skin with multi-device support.
Translations:
The interface is translated in more than 80 languages.
Drag-&-drop message management:
Move your messages with your mouse.
Full support for MIME and HTML messages.
Attachment previews:
See images directly within your messages.
Threaded message listing:
Display conversations in a threaded mode.
Filters:
Set up rules to automaticallyi to move or copy email to specific folders, forward or reject emails, according to subject, sender, etc.
Folders:
Manage your folders (add, remove, or hide).
What is encryption
Encryption is when you change data with a special encoding process so that the data becomes unrecognizable (it's encrypted). You can then apply a special decoding process and you will get the original data back. By keeping the decoding process a secret, nobody else can recover the original data from the encrypted data.
You can use Mailvelope, a browser add-on in Chrome, Edge and Firefox, that securely encrypts your emails with PGP using Disroot webmail. Check this howto.
Add storage to your mailbox
If the free 1GB is not enough, you can extend your mailbox storage.
Transactions made within the EU are subjected to extra VAT of 21%.
Custom domain linking
This feature is a perk for your financial contribution to the project. It allows you to use your own domain to be able to send and receive emails. It is a lifetime reward.
Delimiters
The plus sign ("+") can be used as a delimiter in your email address to create sub-addresses, e.g. username+whatever@disroot.org. This can be used, for instance, to filter and track spam.
Example: david@disroot.org could have an email address like 'david+bank@disroot.org' that he could give to his bank. It can be used to send and receive emails. These addresses do not need to be manually configured; they are always routed back to the original mailbox.