Create mailboxes at will
Tired of Gmail and Outlook? We’ve got just what you need.
On the Internet, each person has an average of two mailboxes. With our service, create as many mailboxes as you want.
Aliases to protect your privacy
An alias is an address that redirects your mail to another address. Using them prevents you from giving your real addresses to anyone.
You receive spam from one of your aliases? Delete it with one click.
Use your domain name
By default we offer three domain names: 42l.fr, courrier.dev and kittens.army.
You can also use your own domain name : we will help you to configure it to make it work with our service.
Let's redecentralize mail
The mail protocol was designed to work with a federation of servers, without any authority or central point.
Yet there are only two international leaders, which centralize and store everyone’s correspondence indefinitely: Gmail and Outlook. You can help change that.
Service reserved to our members
For disk storage reasons, this service is only available to our members.
To become a member of the association, click here.
By using it, you accept our Terms of Use without condition.
Frequently asked questions
General questions
The management of a classic mailbox looks like this :
Your personal and professional emails are mixed, you receive spam, you have only one address for all your activities…
We suggest you to create aliases that allow to relay your mails and to protect your real address:
This way, nobody knows your real address and you can create and delete aliases at will.
This also prevents more powerful actors (states, or large companies) from linking your identities with your email.
Ideally, you should create an alias for each service. When you have to give an email address to a third party, give your alias. That way, if that address is ever used to send you spam, you can simply delete the alias.
The question was raised during the January 2020 General Assembly. The answer is yes: when your membership expires, you will keep an access to your member area and you can continue to add and delete email addresses as before.
However:
- If financial needs are too great on our side, or technical limitations (especially storage) are at stake, this choice could be reviewed during a General Assembly.
- If this should happen, we will not close the door in your face overnight. We will do our best to give you several months notice.
We intend to specifically maintain this service for as long as possible (as long as the association exists and there are people to take care of it).
Nevertheless nothing lasts forever. But if we ever have to close this service, we will give you several months notice, if possible.
Just contact us. You will remain the owner of your domain name, but you will need to add some DNS entries (SPF, DKIM, DMARC…) in order for it to work properly.
We will guide you through the configuration of your domain name.
We do not rule out any possibility, but it is unlikely that this will be possible as we would like to avoid our server being used for spamming purposes. Condition the access to the services to members is often a sufficient guarantee to prevent malicious use of our service.
However, once you are a member, nothing prevents you from creating email addresses for your relatives with your account.
Use of the service
We maintain this service for you
This service is maintained by La Contre-Voie, a non-profit association recognized of general interest. We ensure daily the proper functioning of this service.
However, we don’t have the financial resources of Google (we do not sell your data!) and if most of our services are free for you, they are not for us: their maintenance requires a personal and financial investment.
We cannot survive without your support. To help us, you can make a donation or join the association.