{"slug": "posteo", "name": "Posteo", "category": "communication", "category_name": "Email and chat", "description": "", "recommenders": 8, "commenters": 9, "warners": 0, "score": 7.47, "rising": 2.69, "first": "2025-12-30", "latest": "2026-09-04", "why": "i have been using posteo.de for the last decade with no problems at all.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 8, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "i have been using posteo.de for the last decade with no problems at all.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "posteo.de", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://posteo.de", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Posteo"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 793080689, "item_id": 49567543, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567543", "by": "alturp", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I can think of mailbox.org and posteo.de .", "excerpt": "I can think of mailbox.org and posteo.de . I use mailbox.org with custom domai for two years now and it works as intended from mail side.", "context": "", "use_case": "EU email provider", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gmail to end support for \"Send as\" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"}, {"id": 790272960, "item_id": 49392060, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392060", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Like posteo does it", "excerpt": "I see. I mispoke with \"privacy pass\" although it's similar. I meant like a one time break between your payment and account for regular accounts underneath the option to use privacy pass. Like posteo does it or Brave does it for Origin: https://posteo.de/en/site/payment", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"}, {"id": 789429856, "item_id": 49339366, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339366", "by": "premier_cru", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i have been using posteo.de for the last decade with no problems at all.", "excerpt": "i have been using posteo.de for the last decade with no problems at all. Exactly the feature set you use. I only recently started to use their Caldav stuff which works. I recommend them.", "context": "", "use_case": "IMAP email", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail"}, {"id": 787614737, "item_id": 49225921, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225921", "by": "rendx", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://posteo.de/ Germany", "excerpt": "https://mailbox.org/ Germany https://posteo.de/ Germany https://runbox.com/ Norway https://www.migadu.com/ Switzerland more: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fastmail offers EU data region"}, {"id": 763136944, "item_id": 47696059, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696059", "by": "unfitted2545", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the combination of Posteo and Bitwarden", "excerpt": "I love the combination of Posteo and Bitwarden. Any email I use has a \"+random letters and numbers\" generated for that entry to combat spam. If I need better privacy separation, I have my main email with my name, then an alias with random letters and numbers.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "One item purchased, Ten emails"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "acessoproibido", "context": "Uses it only for personal email", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895065", "date": "2026-02-04"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["email hosting", "eu email provider", "imap email", "personal email"], "compared": [{"slug": "proton", "name": "Proton", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "mailbox-org", "name": "mailbox.org", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565693", "title": "Gmail to end support for \"Send as\" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154", "title": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334409", "title": "An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082", "title": "Fastmail offers EU data region", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694093", "title": "One item purchased, Ten emails", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624741", "title": "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 3}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 793080689, "item_id": 49567543, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567543", "by": "alturp", "date": "2026-09-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I can think of mailbox.org and posteo.de .", "excerpt": "I can think of mailbox.org and posteo.de . I use mailbox.org with custom domai for two years now and it works as intended from mail side.", "context": "", "use_case": "EU email provider", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gmail to end support for \"Send as\" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"}, {"id": 790272960, "item_id": 49392060, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392060", "by": "Cider9986", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Like posteo does it", "excerpt": "I see. I mispoke with \"privacy pass\" although it's similar. I meant like a one time break between your payment and account for regular accounts underneath the option to use privacy pass. Like posteo does it or Brave does it for Origin: https://posteo.de/en/site/payment", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"}, {"id": 789429856, "item_id": 49339366, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339366", "by": "premier_cru", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i have been using posteo.de for the last decade with no problems at all.", "excerpt": "i have been using posteo.de for the last decade with no problems at all. Exactly the feature set you use. I only recently started to use their Caldav stuff which works. I recommend them.", "context": "", "use_case": "IMAP email", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail"}, {"id": 787614737, "item_id": 49225921, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225921", "by": "rendx", "date": "2026-08-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://posteo.de/ Germany", "excerpt": "https://mailbox.org/ Germany https://posteo.de/ Germany https://runbox.com/ Norway https://www.migadu.com/ Switzerland more: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fastmail offers EU data region"}, {"id": 763136944, "item_id": 47696059, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696059", "by": "unfitted2545", "date": "2026-04-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the combination of Posteo and Bitwarden", "excerpt": "I love the combination of Posteo and Bitwarden. Any email I use has a \"+random letters and numbers\" generated for that entry to combat spam. If I need better privacy separation, I have my main email with my name, then an alias with random letters and numbers.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "One item purchased, Ten emails"}, {"id": 762115744, "item_id": 47632234, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632234", "by": "MidnightRider39", "date": "2026-04-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I use my custom email address and forward to posteo, for me there is little to no lock-in; I could go to another service tomorrow and wouldn\u2019t have to change anything", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"}, {"id": 750321040, "item_id": 46895065, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895065", "by": "acessoproibido", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use a small local provider (posteo) and have 0 problems with spam", "excerpt": "I use a small local provider (posteo) and have 0 problems with spam. So a 20 pound monkey can also throw around some weight. To be fair I only use it for personal stuff its probably different if you need enterprise scale l.", "context": "Uses it only for personal email", "use_case": "Personal email", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Is Killing B2B SaaS"}, {"id": 748227905, "item_id": 46764244, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764244", "by": "hnben", "date": "2026-01-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "posteo has not given me any trouble with any of my emails at all.", "excerpt": "I selfhost for >10 years, but only for receiving, i.e. I can not send anything from my domain, because I thought that would have been to much stress to set up. My setup: I have a root server with DNS attached to it. On there is a postfix, with a minimal config that forwards all emails to my real address on posteo.eu. And posteo has not given me any trouble with any of my emails at all. I use this setup, so I can easi", "context": "", "use_case": "Email hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Deutsche Telekom is violating Net Neutrality"}, {"id": 742908816, "item_id": 46431801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431801", "by": "hackerInnen", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I can't stop to recommend posteo.", "excerpt": "Okay looks like proton does a lot nowadays. But if someone wants a nice email provider that just works I can't stop to recommend posteo. A german email provider. 1\u20ac/month and they are just great. Been using them for 15 years now or something like that and I never had any problems. At least I can't remember any. They also always give out a transparency report[1] and apparently can't hand out much data to governments, ", "context": "", "use_case": "email hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stack (and Saved 500\u20ac/Year)"}]}