Introduction
Purelymail is a privacy focused email provider that offers unlimited domains and users under a low, flat annual fee, with an optional pay as you go pricing structure for heavier usage. Mango Mail is a storage tiered email host that also offers unlimited domains and mailboxes, but through published tiers with guided setup rather than a single flat rate. Here is how the two compare, category by category.
Pricing Philosophy
Mango Mail
Mango Mail keeps pricing simple. You pay for your storage plan, and can create as many domains, mailboxes, and aliases as you need within your plan. This makes costs predictable as your organization grows.
Purelymail
Purelymail offers what it calls simple pricing, a flat fee of $10 a year with no hard limits on users, custom domains, storage or anything else, as long as your account's actual resource usage stays under roughly what $10 a year would cover in server costs. For heavier or more predictable usage, Purelymail also offers an advanced, pay-as-you-go pricing structure, where storage is billed at roughly $0.10 to $0.18 per GB per month, and sent email is billed at about $0.23 per 1000 messages sent externally or $0.03 per 1000 sent within the same account, plus storage charges. The higher external sending rate is explicitly meant to discourage spam and marketing use.
Unlimited Domains and Users
Both providers let you host multiple domains and create many mailboxes without a hard per-seat fee. Mango Mail achieves this through fixed storage tiers with published daily sending limits, so you know your allowance up front on any of its three tiers. Purelymail achieves something similar through its flat $10 a year simple pricing plan but does not publicly state limits, only a soft expectation that your total resource usage stays reasonable, with the advanced pay as you go option available if you exceed that.
Standard Email Protocols
Both providers fully support IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, so you can use clients like Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird or mobile mail apps with either service. Purelymail also provides its own webmail interface, built on the open source Roundcube project, described in reviews as basic rather than polished, for people who do not want to use a third party client. Mango Mail's documentation covers SMTP, IMAP and POP3 client support, and its own dashboard serves as the primary web interface.
Feature Breakdown
| Feature | Mango Mail | Purelymail |
| Pricing model | Mango Mail keeps pricing simple. Unlimited mailboxes and domains within each plan | Flat $10 for "reasonable" usage and then pay as you go |
| Unlimited domains and users | Yes, | Yes, but limited usage. |
| Daily sending and receiving limits | Documented and fixed per tier | Not documented as fixed limits, governed instead by pay as you go billing once usage crosses a threshold |
| Migration Transfer tools | SimpleTransfer, with concurrency and message limits that scale by plan | mailPort, for importing or exporting emails |
| Catch all addressing | Documented | Documented |
| Subaddressing | Documented (plus addressing and subdomain addressing) | Documented (plus addressing style) |
| PGP support | Not documented | Documented |
| Automatic backups | Documented | Not documented as a feature of Purelymail |
| Marketing or mailing list sending | Not documented as restricted | Explicitly prohibited by the Terms of Service |
| Webmail interface | Mango Mail's own dashboard | Roundcube based webmail |
Which Should You Choose?
Choose Mango Mail if you
- Want clear, fixed, published pricing tiers with known daily sending and receiving limits rather than usage based billing that can change month to month
- Want a dedicated migration tool and a purpose built dashboard rather than a barebones interface
- Send any kind of marketing, newsletter or mailing list style email and want a provider whose terms clearly allow it
Choose Purelymail if you
- Want calendar and contacts sync, file storage or PGP support built in
- Are comfortable with a barebones interface in exchange for a very low price
- Do not need to send marketing, newsletter or mailing list style email from the same account
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Mango Mail cheaper than Purelymail?
For very light usage, Purelymail's flat $10 a year simple plan is cheaper than any Mango Mail Mini-Tycoon tier. As your storage or sending volume grows, Purelymail's advanced pay as you go pricing kicks in, billed by storage and emails sent, and the total can become harder to predict. Mango Mail's fixed monthly tiers give you a known cost with published daily limits at every tier, which may be easier to budget for as you scale.
Does Mango Mail charge per mailbox?
No. Mango Mail's pricing is based on data usage across your account, not the number of mailboxes or domains you have.
Does Purelymail charge per mailbox?
No. Purelymail's simple pricing plan allows unlimited users and domains for a flat $10 a year, as long as your resource usage stays reasonable, with a separate pay as you go option for heavier use.
Can I send marketing email through Purelymail?
No. Purelymail's Terms of Service explicitly prohibit sending marketing or advertising email and running a mailing list through the service, and violations can result in a ban without refund.
What happens if I have two businesses on Mango Mail?
No, two subcriptions would not be required. You can attach as many domains and users to your account as your plan's storage can fit, so whether you have one business or several, you only pay for one subscription.
Can I migrate from Purelymail to Mango Mail?
SimpleTransfer is described as supporting all major providers, including Gmail and Outlook, and moves attachments and folder structure automatically. Whether it has been tested specifically against Purelymail is not confirmed here, so it is worth reaching out to Mango Mail support for specifics before switching.
