# Posteo email

21 Hacker News commenters recommended Posteo email and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 10 years (4 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Cheap, simple email with encrypted address books that people have used for years without trouble. Main caveat: custom domains are not supported.

## Why people recommend it

- Reliable for many years (4 comments): "I've been over at posteo for about a decade. Couldn't imagine a reason to go back for my personal account." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377400)) "they are just great. Been using them for 15 years now or something like that and I never had any problems." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431801)) "have been using posteo.de for the last decade with no problems at all" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339366))
- Cheap compared with alternatives (4 comments): "it's way cheaper than Fastmail for multiple mailboxes across family members" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342465)) "It's barebones but cheap and sticks to one things that it does well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309379)) "my 1 EUR per month Posteo provider delivers in seconds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251597))
- Privacy-focused with simple interface (2 comments): "I like the UI simplicity of posteo. They still have quite some advanced features like encrypted address books and more" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041908)) "much better alternatives to Gmail in terms of privacy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094060))
- Little spam and fast delivery (2 comments): "I use a small local provider (posteo) and have 0 problems with spam." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895065)) "my 1 EUR per month Posteo provider delivers in seconds" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251597))

## What people warn about

- No custom domain support (3 comments): "Posteo doesn't support custom domains (I've used them and otherwise they are good)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228115)) "Posteo does not allow custom domains, which is an immediate nope from me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629764)) "Not being able to use your domain is a pretty massive downside." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431869))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Gmail](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gmail.md): 295 recommend
- [mailbox.org email](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mailbox-org.md): 45 recommend
- [Zoho Mail](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zoho-mail.md): 29 recommend
- [iCloud Mail](https://hackerapproved.com/p/icloud-mail.md): 24 recommend
- [HEY email by Basecamp](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hey-email.md): 23 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://posteo.de/en)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Posteo email", https://hackerapproved.com/p/posteo/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).