mail.de

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mail.de GmbH
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Email provider
languages German
operator Fabian Bock
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On-line - (currently online)
https://mail.de

mail.de is a provider of secure e-mail services founded in 2009 with headquarters in Nordhastedt and a business office in Gütersloh . There the webmailer is programmed and the systems are administered.

mail.de initially started as an advertising-free, paid service. In 2012, an advertising-financed freemail tariff was added to the portfolio. Mail.de won the Öko-Check as the most sustainable e-mail provider.

safety

All protocols (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV, Jabber) have been available in encrypted form since the service was started. With the compulsion of HTTPS, for example, mail.de was one of the pioneers in the e-mail sector in 2010. In July 2013, in a test by 15 major providers, mail.de was the only e-mail provider alongside Freenet and Arcor that supported transport encryption for server-to-server communication.

In its 4/2014 issue, c't magazine rated mail.de as one of 16 providers in a security test as the best and most secure FreeMail provider. The provider signs all outgoing emails with a DKIM signature.

Since 2012, mail.de has been the first webmailer in Germany to offer registration using two-factor authentication . The username can differ from the publicly known e-mail address. There is also the password and the six-digit code from the mail.de authenticator, a smartphone app that corresponds to the time-controlled one-time password ( TOTP standard ).

mail.de is the third email provider worldwide that supports DANE / TLSA (DNS-based Authentication of Name Entries) with the services SMTP, HTTPS, IMAP, POP3 and Jabber and thus avoids some weaknesses of the SSL / TLS transport route encryption .

The data center is located in Hamburg at IPHH.

The Perfect Forward Secrecy technology is used with all protocols, so that each encrypted connection uses its own session key. This prevents all recorded connections from being decrypted afterwards by cracking the SSL key.

mail.de is the first e-mail provider to offer its customers to publish their public PGP keys via OPENPGPKEY in the DNSSEC-secured domain. Since March 2016, it has also been possible to publish S / MIME keys via SMIMEA.

Products

The focus of mail.de lies in the provision of free, advertising-financed FreeMail mailboxes as well as advertising-free premium mailboxes.

There are differences u. a. in the number of possible alias addresses, the transfer volume (data traffic) and the payment and term conditions. IMAP is also available in the FreeMail package.

A major difference to some comparable services of the competitors is the requirement for the consent of the customer to use his login data not only by the email provider himself (on behalf of his advertising customers), but also by his advertising partner directly with FreeMail accounts.

In May 2017, mail.de GmbH started its service in Switzerland under mail.ch, in August 2017 in the United Kingdom under mail.co.uk and in France under mail.fr. In these three countries, anonymous registration is only possible using an email address and password.

Functions

In addition to the basic functions of the webmail, a. the following functions are available:

  • Drag and drop
  • Parallel opening of messages
  • Creation of folders and sub-folders
  • Attachments up to 100 MB or as a download link
  • SMTP dispatch via external e-mail providers
  • Filters for newsletters and / or spam mails,
  • Online storage including server-side support for ZIP archives, playback of multimedia files, etc.

Since April 2014, customers have been able to use the setup wizard to import emails including the complete IMAP folder structure and contacts from other providers' mailboxes free of charge.

IPv6 has been supported since 2013 , which was used by around 14% of customers in August 2014.

Calendar, address book and online storage can also be integrated into external programs using the open standards CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV. On the other hand, mail.de enables use via a modern Ajax webmailer, which is optimized for common browsers.

mail.de offers customer support by telephone at a fixed network tariff and via live chat.

literature

  • Email security. Computer Bild , issue 09/2014 from April 5, 2014
  • Free mail with extras. Article in the PC world , issue 12/2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SSL web server test from Qualys. Retrieved August 22, 2014 .
  2. ↑ STARTTLS test from ssl-tools.net. Retrieved on August 22, 2014 (German).
  3. ↑ mail.de - About us. Retrieved on August 16, 2014 (German).
  4. ↑ Surf greener. In: Schrot & Korn. Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Golem.de Article: Gaps in the encryption chain. July 24, 2013, accessed on July 27, 2014 (German).
  6. ↑ Blog article about signing with DKIM. January 9, 2013, accessed on July 27, 2014 (German).
  7. ↑ Blog article mail.de Authenticator. October 11, 2012, accessed on July 27, 2014 (German).
  8. ↑ Computing center mail.de at IPHH. November 14, 2012, accessed on July 27, 2014 (German).
  9. ↑ Using DANE to Associate OpenPGP public keys with email addresses. April 1, 2015, accessed April 25, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Mail encryption: Mail.de brings automated PGP key management. March 10, 2015, accessed on April 25, 2015 (German).
  11. ↑ Using Secure DNS to Associate Certificates with Domain Names For S / MIME. March 16, 2017, accessed on August 16, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Simple and secure distribution of your S / MIME public key . mail.de GmbH. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
  13. ↑ Figures on IPv6 use at mail.de. August 22, 2013, accessed on August 22, 2014 (German).
  14. ↑ Support from e-mail providers. June 17, 2013, accessed on July 27, 2014 (German).