Posteo is an

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based in Berlin, Germany, offering paid email accounts for individuals and businesses. The service gained prominence during the aftermath of the post-2013 global surveillance disclosures, especially for its high standard security features and relative anonymity as it does not require any private information in the registration process. Posteo offers support for

DNSSEC The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) are a suite of extension specifications by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for securing data exchanged in the Domain Name System (DNS) in Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The protocol ...

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and

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(through Mailvelope in the web interface, which is running open source Roundcube). Additionally, they offer two-factor-authentication via TOTP,

Extended Validation An Extended Validation Certificate (EV) is a certificate conforming to X.509 that proves the legal entity of the owner and is signed by a certificate authority key that can issue EV certificates. EV certificates can be used in the same manner as ...

certificates, HPKP for the

HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is enc ...

connection, and various themes to choose from, including dark mode. In 2022, Posteo had more than 500,000 active mail accounts.

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* Companies based in Berlin Internet properties established in 2009 Technology companies established in 2009 Webmail German companies established in 2009 {{Germany-company-stub

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