Welcome to riseup.net mail help. Here you will find information regarding riseup.net mail accounts.

If you don’t find what you are looking for fill out a help ticket. Once your question has been answered, please help us keep these pages updated by submitting any changes or additions you would like to share with other users.

First steps

Visit user.riseup.net from there, you can change your password, add email aliases, set up email filters, change your quota, and request help.

We automatically destroy the information you gave us as part of your account request. You should consider removing any identifying information from your account settings, such as your name, birthday, secret question, and alternate email. However, if you forget your password and this information is not set (or you’ve forgotten what you stored, or the alternate email is no longer accessible), then you will lose access to your account.

Important things to know

Protect your password

The Internet is crawling with people trying to steal your email account. At some point, you will probably receive a fraudulent email from someone pretending to be riseup.net. These emails will claim that you must perform some action in order to keep your account.

Read more on mail passwords.

Automatic deletion of messages in some folders

Messages in some special folders are automatically deleted after a certain number of days:

Quota

For many reasons, we do not provide much storage space for email. If you need more space, consider downloading your email using a mail client or increasing your quota by visiting user.riseup.net. Read more about quota.

Use an email client

Although the riseup.net web-based interface does not have many features, you can use your riseup.net email account with an IMAP or POP email clients, a feature-rich application designed specifically to handle your email. Check out our tutorials for many popular email clients.

Riseup recommends Thunderbird, a free and open source mail client. Thunderbird will automatically configure itself correctly if you just give it your riseup.net email address and password.

What is special about riseup.net email

Your riseup.net email account is a wonderful thing. Although we don’t provide as much storage quota as surveillance-funded corporate email providers, riseup.net email has many unusual features:

We encrypt traffic whenever possible.

When you send email from riseup.net to another secure email provider, the email is encrypted for its entire journey. (see StartTLS for more info)

We don’t disclose your location to email recipients.

When you send email with riseup.net, your internet address (IP address) is not embedded in the email. With corporate email providers, anyone who receives your email can figure out your approximate physical location from the internet address included in the email.

We don’t log your internet address.

Our commitment is to keep as little data on you as we can. Unlike corporate providers, we do not log internet addresses of anyone using riseup.net services, including email.

Mutual aid

There is no such thing as free email. Services like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo make their money from surveillance: they build a profile on your behavior and your desires and then bombard you with advertising specifically targeted to you.

Riseup.net is different. This service is a labor of love by activists like you committed to building movement-run and secure alternative infrastructure.

The riseup.net email service takes a lot of time and money to keep running, and is funded entirely by small donations from its users. Please do your part and contribute today.

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)