Email without bells and whistles: deliberately no AI gimmicks
Email without AI gimmicks
The promise is simple: email that just works. No bells and whistles that demand your attention, no features that sound like a demo but don't make your day any better. You open your inbox, you read and send your mail, and you're done.
That's a deliberate choice. Owner Wim puts it nicely: he wanted email without any hassle with AI or other unnecessary bells and whistles. That's precisely the starting point. Not because technology is bad, but because most people are looking for a mailbox that's reliable and doesn't get in the way.
An important nuance: under the hood there is smart technology, only unobtrusive and in your favour. The filtering against spam, phishing and malware works with self-learning (ML-driven) detection. That's no gimmick but protection: it keeps rubbish out of your inbox without you having to do anything. The difference from a gimmick is simple: good filtering is precisely what you don't notice. It asks nothing of you, shows no pop-ups and doesn't try to convince you of a new feature. It quietly does its job, and that's exactly the intention.
Why this counts
Many email services stack feature upon feature. You get assistants that want to summarise messages, suggestions that finish your sentences, and gadgets that mainly look good on a sales page. For anyone who just wants to mail, that's noise, and sometimes a privacy concern: the more a service does with your content, the more questions it raises about who's reading along.
There's also the cost side. Email is often hidden inside a larger bundle with word processors, storage services and tools you never look at. You pay for the whole thing while using only a small part. That can be simpler. You can read more about it in email without the bundle: pay only for email.
And then there's the calm. An inbox that doesn't show a new button every week is an inbox you can rely on. For a self-employed person, an SME or an office manager, that predictability often weighs more heavily than the newest feature.
What you get
Concretely, without frills:
- Professional mailboxes on your own domain, so you mail with your own name after the @.
- Webmail on any device via your browser, without installation, plus support for your own mail program via POP, IMAP and SMTP.
- Smart, unobtrusive filtering against spam, phishing and malware, with antivirus and automatic backups in every plan.
- Optional two-step verification (2FA) for an extra lock on your account.
- 20 free aliases, for addresses like
info@orinvoices@without an extra mailbox. - European, GDPR-compliant hosting, where your content isn't scanned for ads. The privacy side is covered in privacy-friendly business email.
That's the whole list, and that's deliberate. Everything on it helps you daily; nothing on it is there just to impress. If you want more storage or a calendar that syncs, you choose a bigger plan. But you start with what you need, not with a package full of features you have to learn to ignore later.
Without the bundle, at concept level
The difference from a full office suite isn't in what you miss, but in what you don't also pay for. You get email that's complete, instead of email as a by-product of a package full of tools. Here they are side by side, without brand names:
| Email without gimmicks | Full bundle | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | email only | a whole suite of tools |
| Features | what you need | a lot you rarely use |
| Filtering | smart and unobtrusive | often, plus extra assistants |
| Data location | Europe, GDPR-compliant | sometimes unclear |
So smart technology isn't the problem; unnecessary ballast is. The filtering that protects you stays, the gimmicks you didn't ask for stay away.
Price and getting started
One clear price per mailbox per month, billed annually. You pay only for email.
| Plan | Price | Storage | Extra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | €4.99 | 8 GB | standard antimalware |
| Pro | €6.99 | 25 GB | premium antimalware, calendar, task list, CardDAV & CalDAV |
| Premium | €9.99 | 50 GB (expandable to 100 GB) | premium antimalware, calendar, task list, CardDAV & CalDAV |
The domain name is charged separately; setup or migration may be added. No worries if the technology puts you off: you don't need to be an expert for this, and we're happy to help you get started. If you'd first like to see the hosting side, take a look at European email hosting on your own domain.
Ready for email that just works, without unnecessary bells and whistles? Request your mailbox with no obligation.