MailHow vs Namecheap Private Email
Namecheap Private Email is sold per mailbox, per domain — five domains means five subscriptions and roughly $74–163/year. MailHow is $29/year for all of them, in one inbox.
The short version
Namecheap Private Email is an add-on sold at domain checkout, and it is priced that way: one subscription covers one domain. Five domains means five subscriptions and five dashboards. Aliases exist, but they are forward-only — you cannot send from them — so every address you actually reply from costs a mailbox. If you are mid-migration off their Open-Xchange platform right now, this is a reasonable moment to look around.
What it costs: one person, five domains
$29/yr flat. Every domain, every address, one subscription, one inbox.
One subscription per domain. Roughly $74/yr with a single sending mailbox and receive-only aliases per domain; roughly $163/yr if you need three sendable addresses per domain. Renewal prices run 25–58% above the intro price.
Side by side
| MailHow | Namecheap Private Email | |
|---|---|---|
| Price for the persona | $29/yr, one subscription | $74–163/yr, five subscriptions |
| Domains per subscription | Unlimited | One |
| Send from an alias | Yes, any address on any domain | No — aliases are forward-only |
| Inbox | One, spanning every domain | One dashboard per domain |
| Outgoing limit | 100/hour | 500–1,500/hour per domain |
| Two-factor auth | TOTP + app passwords | TOTP + app passwords |
| Hosting | Germany (Hetzner) | Los Angeles — US only, no EU option |
| Deliverability tiering | Same delivery path for everyone | “Premium Email Delivery” is an Ultimate-tier upsell |
| Bought at domain checkout | No | Yes — it's right there in the cart |
A green check marks a row where Namecheap Private Email beats us. Figures checked 2026-07-08 — they change their prices and we change ours, so verify before you buy.
Where Namecheap Private Email is better
- A much higher hourly send allowance than ours: 500–1,500/hour per domain against our 100/hour.
- It is one click at domain checkout, which is genuinely convenient if your domains already live at Namecheap.
- Very cheap for exactly one domain with one mailbox. If that is you, this page is not for you.
Documented friction with Namecheap Private Email
Every item below links to its source. We list only things that are published and checkable — not rumours, and not our opinion of them.
Aliases cannot send. Namecheap's own knowledge base states it is impossible to send from an alias.
Namecheap KB 9627New subscriptions since 2026-06-02 are being moved off Open-Xchange onto an in-house platform; CalDAV/CardDAV documentation is flagged as applying only to pre-June-2026 subscriptions.
Namecheap blog, Private Email updates
Which one should you actually buy?
- You have one domain, one mailbox, and want it bundled with the registrar you already use.
- You need to send hundreds of messages an hour — our 100/hour cap would get in your way.
- You want your mail hosted in the US.
- You have more than one domain and are paying for a subscription per domain.
- You want to reply from any address without buying a mailbox for each one.
- You want EU hosting.
Receiving on your own domains is free on MailHow, with no card — so you can point one domain at us, leave the rest where they are, and see for yourself before moving anything. Start free.
Sources
Checked 2026-07-08. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will fix it — including when the correction favours Namecheap Private Email.