Pricing
Free to receive and read on domains you own, forever. No card, no trial clock. Pay only when you want to send, plus unlimited domains and 10 GB. Flat rate: no per-domain, no per-user surprises.
Pay for longer, pay less
Same product, same flat rate for every domain you own. Just settled further ahead.
The yearly plan renews itself. The 2- and 3-year options are a one-time payment for that many years. Nothing recurs, nothing is charged again without you. We email you before the time is up, and if you do nothing, sending simply pauses; receiving on your own domains stays free and your mail stays put.
All prices are charged up front. The 30-day guarantee below applies to every term.
| What’s included | Free | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Mailbox on your own domain | ||
| Connect your own domains | Up to 5 | Unlimited |
| Receive & read mail | ||
| Web app + full IMAP & POP3 access | ||
| DKIM · SPF · DMARC set up for you | ||
| Send mail | ||
| SMTP sending from any address | ||
| Storage | 1 GB | 10 GB |
The 30-day guarantee
Upgrade, connect your domains, send real mail. If MailHow isn’t for you, email hello@mailhow.com within 30 days for a full refund. No interrogation. The guarantee is void for accounts suspended for abuse or that issue a chargeback.
Why not $10?
Because $10/yr is real, and pretending otherwise would be the kind of marketing we don’t do. The cheapest option charges it, gives you unlimited domains, and is unusually honest about its own weak spots. If price is the deciding factor, that is a genuine answer and you should take it.
What you’re paying the difference for, stated plainly:
- Setup you don’t have to do by hand. Their docs answer “can you automate DNS?” with “unfortunately, no”: seven records, typed correctly, or your mail quietly goes to spam. We publish them for you and check them until they resolve.
- A mail app built this decade. Their webmail is Roundcube. Ours is one inbox across every domain you own, with the domain each message arrived at shown on it.
- Europe. They run on AWS in Virginia; EU hosting has been “under consideration” on their roadmap. Your mail sits in Germany, on hardware we rent and administer.
- A price that isn’t a question mark. They have said publicly that $10 is probably unsustainable and that an increase is coming, with existing accounts grandfathered. $29 is what it costs us to run this properly, so it is what we charge.
And where they beat us: their published allowance is around 3,000 messages a day, against our 100 an hour. Ours is deliberately shaped for correspondence rather than volume, and limits says why. If that number is the one that matters to you, it is theirs, not ours. The full comparison is here, including the parts that don’t flatter us.
Why not free forever?
Reliable email costs real money to run well. Servers, storage, backups, IP reputation care. A straightforward paid plan means you are the customer, not the product: no ads, no data mining, ever. Free accounts can receive so you can try the real thing; sending is what costs us reputation to protect, so it’s the paid line. See the privacy policy.