Features

What you get

Mail is forwarded in memory and discarded immediately after delivery. It never touches disk on our servers, and we do not inspect or modify forwarded email in any way.

When you sign up for a PrivoMail account, you create an alias address and set a forwarding address. Every email sent to the alias is instantly forwarded to your real inbox without being stored anywhere on our infrastructure.

A free account gives you one alias with no strings attached. This is a low-barrier way to try the service and start reclaiming some of your online privacy.

Using the same alias for every service creates a correlation risk: if multiple sites share an alias, a tracker can link your activity across them. More aliases mean better separation. Paid plans give you up to 40 aliases.

How it works

PrivoMail uses Postfix virtual aliases. When an email arrives at an alias address, Postfix looks up the forwarding address in a live database query and delivers the message directly, without ever writing it to disk.

Because the lookup happens at the MTA level, there is no intermediate store-and-forward step. The mail exists only in RAM for the fraction of a second it takes to relay it onward.

Alias types

Random: available on all plans. Generates a cryptographically random short address, e.g. hx7k2m@privomail.io.

Natural-name: Pro and Pro Plus. Generates a name-like alias with a random suffix for entropy, e.g. marcus.bell4@privomail.io. Looks plausible; still unguessable.

Enabling and disabling

Every alias has an enabled/disabled toggle. A disabled alias stops forwarding immediately — useful when an address starts receiving spam. Re-enable it at any time from your account page.

Forwarding address verification

When you create an alias, we send a one-time verification link to the forwarding address. Until you click it, the alias does not forward mail. This prevents PrivoMail from being used to relay mail to addresses that did not consent.