With Mail4You, Strato is only offering the opportunity for a short time to get your own mail domain for just 25 cents. We tried this really cheap offer.
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Strato: Your own mail domain for a one-time fee of 25 cents.
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Under the motto Mail4You, Strato currently offers the possibility to create your own mail domain for only 25 cents once – for your own mail domain that is really cheap. So you get your own desired email address according to this scheme:
Anymailaddress@YourName.de
. The ending is always .de, another ending such as .com or .info costs extra. The prerequisite is, of course, that the mail domain, i.e. the part after “@”, is still free. The special offer is limited: Mail4You can only be booked until the end of September 2022 for a one-off fee of 25 cents.
Strato Mail4You tested
We booked one of these mail domains available for 25 cents. Registration was quick and uncomplicated. Strato promptly sent us several emails explaining the setup. That’s the only small point of criticism: Strato showers new customers with a flood of emails. Less would be more here.
Otherwise, there is nothing to criticize about Strato’s e-mail service: We were able to send e-mails immediately that reached our addressees and also received e-mails from our contacts immediately after setting them up. The web front end for managing our mail account is clear and intuitive to use. Setting up the May account on an iPhone also worked straight away, Strato provides the necessary mail server data in the web front end.
This is what Mail4You offers: Very limited storage space, server location in Germany
The mailbox for your own mail domain includes 250 MB of memory. That’s really little, for comparison: With Googlemail and Outlook.com you have 15 GB each. But your data is stored at Mail4You on servers in Germany, which are subject to German data protection. Strato is certainly speculating that the 250 MB of mail storage will not be sufficient in the long term and that the user will then book additional mail storage for a fee. But to try out an e-mail address with your own e-mail domain, this offer is always sufficient.
You can also send email attachments up to a size of 75 MB. That should be enough, because for larger downloads you can send download links to files that are on Dropbox or Google Drive, for example.
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Each person may open exactly one mailbox in their name for 25 cents. The mailboxes can be accessed on all devices, i.e. also on an Android smartphone or an iPhone as well as in Outlook; Instructions can be found at Strato here. If you need several mailboxes, this costs extra. Domain forwarding is not possible.
Costs
You have to pay a one-time fee of 25 cents when registering. Strato wants to ensure that the registration is not done by a bot, but that a person actually registers. There should not be any further follow-up costs.
