About Private Mail Guide
Private Mail Guide explains private email in plain language: what Gmail's encryption actually covers and what it does not, whether you need end-to-end encryption at all, what metadata still leaks once you have it, alias services such as addy.io, SimpleLogin and Firefox Relay, custom domains and portability, reading raw headers, and encrypted providers that do not demand a phone number.
It is written for people who want their inbox to stop being a data product, without needing to understand PGP first. Every claim traces to a primary source — provider documentation, published pricing pages, audit reports and the relevant email RFCs — and pricing and plan limits carry the month they were retrieved, because they change.
What is covered here
- Comparisons
- Email Privacy
- Fundamentals
- Guides
- How To
19 articles are published so far. New articles are announced on the RSS feed; there is no fixed publishing schedule and this site does not promise one.
How these articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those same sources before anything is published. Where a figure comes from a datasheet or a third-party measurement, the article names the source and links to it so you can check the original rather than take this site's summary of it.
Everything here is published under the Private Mail Guide Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a person, and no article on this site claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement. Nothing here should be read as a report of something this site physically tested.
Corrections
Getting it right matters more than getting it first. If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or missing the source it should cite, email hello@privatemailguide.com with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the page itself rather than quietly dropped.
How this site is funded
This site currently runs no affiliate links, no sponsored content, no paid placement, and no display advertising. Nothing on it earns a commission. If that changes, this page and the disclosure page will say so before any such link appears.
The full position is on the disclosure page. Read it before acting on anything here that reads like a buying recommendation.
Related sites
Private Mail Guide is run alongside a small number of other single-topic sites:
- AnonGuide - Privacy, demystified.
- Privacy Ranker - Ranked by research, not revenue.
- Secure Mail Guide - Encrypted email, explained clearly.
- Password Manager Lab - Compared on published audits, not vendor claims.
Contact
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