About Thelemail
Encrypted email hosting for people who want to own their correspondence without running a mail server.
Thelemail is encrypted email hosting for people who want to own their correspondence without running a mail server. We host it; you verify it.
Why we built it
Three options exist if you care about your email: run your own server and lose the fight with deliverability; hand your inbox to a provider that mines it; or pay per seat for a productivity suite to get the one thing you wanted — a private mailbox on your own domain. We didn’t like any of them, so we built a fourth.
What we actually do
Mail between Thelemail accounts is end-to-end encrypted. Your stored mailbox is encrypted at rest with a key derived from your password, which we never hold. Mail to outsiders is encrypted when they publish a key, and sent over standard SMTP otherwise — and we tell you which. We run the sending infrastructure so your mail lands instead of vanishing into spam.
What we won’t pretend
The server is closed source and there is no self-hosted option. Our client apps aren’t public yet — we’ll publish them when the code is ready to be read, not before. We don’t hold a third-party audit or compliance certification, and we won’t claim either until they’re real. The full, unflattering version lives on our threat model page.
How we stay honest
We charge money so we never have to monetise you — no ads, no scanning, no training on your mail. We’re EU-hosted, on European infrastructure. Founding members keep their price for as long as their subscription stays active. If you ever leave, your data and your domain go with you.