Mailboxes on your own domain
Your domain. Real mailboxes.
Mail addressed to your domain is delivered and kept here, in mailboxes you open and read — not forwarded off somewhere else. 5 of them for 5,000₮ a month.
Three steps, once.
After this, adding an address takes a few seconds.
Point your domain
Add four records at your registrar. We check them against live DNS and mark the domain active the moment they resolve.
| Type | Host | Value | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| MX | @ | mx1.nearlyfree.email | 10 |
| MX | @ | mx2.nearlyfree.email | 20 |
| TXT | @ | v=spf1 include:spf.nearlyfree.email ~all | — |
| CNAME | nf._domainkey | dk.nearlyfree.email | — |
Create your mailboxes
Name them whatever you want. Each one gets 500 MB of its own storage, and mail is delivered straight into it.
- StripePayment succeeded09:14
- VercelDeployment ready08:02
- ana@studio.coRe: invoice 0042Tue
Add aliases and a catch-all
An alias forwards mail without using up a mailbox — to one of yours, or to an inbox you already read. Turn on the catch-all and nothing addressed to your domain is lost.
- sales@→hello@yourdomain.com
- info@→you@gmail.com
- *@Catch-all→hello@yourdomain.com
The parts that usually cost extra.
Mail is kept, not forwarded
Every address is a real mailbox with its own storage. You read and reply in it, rather than chasing mail into somebody else's inbox.
DKIM, SPF and DMARC
Generated when you add the domain, then checked live against what your registrar is actually serving.
Catch-all when you want it
Switch on *@ and anything addressed to your domain lands somewhere instead of bouncing.
Aliases cost you nothing
Point sales@ or info@ at a mailbox, or at an inbox you already read. Aliases do not use up your mailbox allowance.
Nearly free, then barely more.
One domain on every plan. Pay when you need more than one mailbox on it.
For teams that only need email.
Workspace and Microsoft 365 are priced per person, per month — and most of that price is the rest of the suite.
What a suite bundles
- An AI assistant
- Video calls
- Shared documents
- Cloud storage
- Spreadsheets
- Slides
- Chat
If your team lives in those, keep them — they are good, and this is not a replacement for them. But plenty of small teams sign up for one reason: they want hello@ and billing@ on a domain they own. Then they pay every month, per person, for six things nobody opens.
This is the one part, done properly: real mailboxes, DKIM that is actually checked, your mail in and out whenever you want it. No assistant reading it, because there is no assistant.
Questions worth asking first.
Moving email feels risky, so here is the honest version.
- Can I use my normal mail app?
- Every mailbox is an ordinary IMAP account, so Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook and the Gmail app all work, on a laptop or a phone. There is webmail in the browser too, if you would rather not set anything up.
- Can I bring my existing mail across?
- Yes. Export from your current provider — Gmail and most clients produce an mbox file — and import it straight into the mailbox from the dashboard. Whole Maildir archives work as well, folders and all.
- Can I get my mail back out?
- Any time, from the same screen. The Maildir export is lossless: folders, read and unread, flags, everything. It is a normal archive another mail server will accept, so leaving is a download, not a support ticket.
- Will what I send land in spam?
- DKIM, SPF and DMARC are generated when you add the domain, and the panel checks them against live DNS rather than assuming they are right. Until all three resolve, the domain is not marked active.
- Do I have to move my domain?
- No. Your domain stays where you bought it. You add a few records at your registrar and nothing else changes — the website on that domain is untouched.
- Does anything read my mail?
- No. Your mail is not scanned, profiled, or used to train anything. There is no assistant here to feed it to, which is rather the point.
- What if a mailbox fills up?
- Each mailbox has its own storage. Old mail can be archived off with the export, and you can move an address to a mailbox of its own rather than paying per person for space nobody uses.
- What happens if I stop paying?
- You drop to the free plan rather than losing anything: the domain and its mail stay put, and you keep one mailbox. Export first if you want a copy — that never expires.
Bring a domain. Keep your mail.
One domain and one mailbox, free, for as long as you want it.