Free email that stays private.
Using a free dao-mail.com address
Last updated: 2026-10-17
The short version: use it like any other mailbox, don't use it to hurt anyone, and we'll leave you alone.
What you agree to
- No spam, bulk unsolicited mail, or commercial mailing lists.
- No harassment, threats, or targeting of any person or group.
- No phishing, fraud, malware, or impersonation of anyone else.
- Nothing illegal where you are or where this service is hosted.
- One account per person, unless you have asked us.
- Accounts are for people. Don't run yours from a bot, script, AI agent, or other automated tool, and that includes automated sign-ups, sending, and mailbox polling. Your normal mail app on your phone, computer, or in webmail checking for new mail is fine. If you need email for a bot or an automated system, contact us first and we'll talk about the options.
What we do
- We don't read your mail, scan it for ads, sell it, or use it to train AI models.
- We keep what you gave us at signup: your address, name, and recovery address, when you accepted these terms, who gave you your invite code if you used one, and the IP address you signed up from, which we also use to look up the approximate location and network it came from, for abuse handling. That lookup runs on our own server; your IP isn't sent to anyone else. We need all of this to handle abuse reports, and it's deleted along with your account.
- Free accounts get 1 GB of storage and 150 messages sent a day.
- We may suspend an account that breaks these rules. When we can, we'll email your recovery address first to explain why.
Some signups are reviewed by hand
To keep spammers out, we look at some new signups ourselves before the mailbox is created: for example ones from a VPN or hosting network, ones whose recovery address is a forwarding alias, or a second signup from the same network in a week. You still confirm your recovery address as usual. Then we email that address, usually within a day, when your mailbox is ready, or if we couldn't approve it.
While a signup waits, we hold your chosen address and the password you picked, encrypted. If we decline it, or haven't decided within 14 days, the password is deleted and the address is free again. We keep the rest of that signup for 90 days for abuse handling, then delete it.
An invite code from an existing Dao-Mail user skips the wait, unless someone already signed up from the same network that week. Each code works once. Please don't sell invite codes or post them publicly.
If your account is suspended
A suspended account can't sign in, send, or receive mail. We email your recovery address when it happens.
You have 14 days from the suspension to open a ticket with us (or write to support@dao-mail.com) if you think it's a mistake or you need your mail back. While we're working it out with you, the account won't be deleted.
If we don't hear from you within those 14 days, the account and all the mail in it are deleted permanently. Your name, recovery address, and signup IP go with it. We keep only the address itself, so it can't be signed up for again.
What we do not promise
This is a free service funded by donations. We take good care of it, but we can't guarantee uptime, so don't make it the only copy of anything you can't afford to lose. Keep your own backups of important mail.