Own-Mailbox, protecting you privacy.

Own-Mailbox is a personal email server you can run in your own home, with strong privacy protection measures integrated at its core. It provides self-hosted email addresses, and allows you to protect the content of your emails, and the meta-data, from mass surveillance.

Own-Mailbox, is very easy to set-up and use. It automatically encrypts your emails using Gnu Privacy Guard, a strong encryption software, and allows you to protect your meta-data thanks to the tor network. The information that you exchanged emails with another own-mailbox user, and the anonymity of your email account, will be protected.

Freedom matters

100% Free Software.

Privacy matters.

Private emails, 100% auditable.

Own-Mailbox is yours!

We make everything so you are the only one in control. Even we don't have access to your messages.

Easy to use!

We want to make sure it is usable by anyone.

Made with Love!

We are trying to contribute positively to humanity!

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A project by Pierre Parent, Embedded Systems Engineer

I am a freelance embedded systems engineer! Feel free to contact me if you want me to work on your embedded systems projects or to adapt the own-mailbox to your needs!
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Own-mailbox protects your privacy.

Protects the content of your emails.
Protects your relations: the information that you exchanged emails with another own-mailbox user.
Protects your anonymity and identity: the assocation between an email address and a real person.

Access from anywhere in the world.

When your Own-Mailbox is in your home, you can access your emails from anywhere in the world through a webmail interface, using standard email software or via your smartphone. However you choose to access it, your communications will be encrypted end-to-end with your Own-Mailbox to preserve your privacy.

How does it work?

Your Own-Mailbox stays at your home, encrypts and decrypts emails via GPG for you, and send them through tor when possible. You can communicate safely with your Own-Mailbox from anywhere in the world, thanks to HTTPS.

When talking to each other Own-Mailboxes exchange emails directly through the tor network. Both the content and meta-data are therefore protected. Each Own-Mailbox hosts a tor hidden service, for SMTP, HTTPS (webmail) and IMAPS. The webmail interface can be accessed directly through the tor browser.

In order to be compatible with the outside of the tor network, the Own-Mailbox project maintains a set of proxy servers (for SMTP and TLS). You will therefore be able to receive emails as you would with a normal email address, and access your webmail form a normal browser while keeping end-to-end encryption, with your Own-Mailbox.