Free email

The best free mailbox is one that offers uncompromised data protection. We also recommend ensuring that you always have the option of retrieving your emails, and transferring them if necessary. A service that offers free email addresses may be discontinued in the future, so it is important to maintain a degree of flexibility. At OVHcloud, the email accounts provided with your hosting package or domain name can be easily transferred if required, with the OVHcloud Mail Migrator (OMM). We apply the principle of reversibility to all our solutions.

We offer a wide range of email solutions for your business. The best choice for you will depend on your company’s current needs, such as the number of mailboxes you need, the storage space they offer, and the types of additional services they include. Your business email address must ensure maximum availability, as well as integrity and confidentiality for the data stored on the email server.

Once you have ordered your Web Hosting plan or domain name, go to the OVHcloud Control Panel. Click on the ‘Email’ tab for the service concerned, and create a new email address. Then simply enter the name and password you want to use: your mailbox is automatically created. For Web Hosting plans, you will need to link a domain name to create a custom email address.

Unlike an email service provider, email hosting provides users with an email server. This server can be shared by several customers, or dedicated to a single company, offering more usability and customisation options. Email addresses can be created in connection with a domain name, to reflect a company’s brand identity.

Behind the scenes with free web services, your personal data is often used for advertising purposes. However, there are alternatives to market players that do not respect the confidentiality of data exchanged electronically. OVHcloud services are one of these alternatives, ensuring compliance with EU standards and the GDPR.

You can manage each email address for your company via the OVHcloud Control Panel. You can order new accounts, delete the ones that are no longer used, or simply change the password. With Outlook Web Access (OWA) webmail, you can view your emails via your web browser, on your computer or mobile device. With other collaborative services, you can complement your business requirements as they grow.

All of our email solutions come with a storage space for each email account. This is used to store the messages you receive. By syncing your email software (Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.), you can read your received messages and emails stored on the server from all your platforms. Backups are taken daily, in case you need to recover your email services in the future. Have you accidentally deleted items like your emails, contacts, calendar events, or tasks? You can restore them within 14 days of their deletion.

The webmail client you use will depend on the email solution you have chosen. For Email Pro solutions, you can use Roundcube webmail, which is a free email client available in over 80 languages. It supports IMAP protocol and can read mails in HTML. For Hosted Exchange and Private Exchange solutions, the webmail used is the web version of Outlook.

The SMTP server (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is the service responsible for sending emails. This email server ensures coordination by sending your email to the recipient’s email address server. If we compare this to postal services, it is the company you send your mail with, whose job it is to deliver it to the right address. Each email service provider has its own SMTP server addresses, as well as a port and security. OVHcloud’s SSL certificate is ssl0.ovh.net, port 465, and SSL/TLS security.