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Email Provider Reviews

We read email providers' own plan and help pages for one exit question: whether the free mailbox can reach a standard mail client through IMAP or POP, or leave as documented export files.

What we check here

On the free plan, can your mailbox reach another client through IMAP or POP — or leave as a documented export file?

Every number carries the date we read it, and anything the vendor does not state is left blank rather than estimated. The full procedure is on the Methodology.

Reviews

• Can you take a free mailbox into another email client?

  Gmail now keeps IMAP permanently on. Tuta exports files but rejects IMAP for everyone; Zoho and Proton sell standard client access on their paid tiers.

  Last verified 2026-08-06