Before you join
Ruber is not for everyone.
We would rather tell you where Ruber fits — and where it does not — before you move your email. Changing providers is a day of work and a week of small surprises, and finding out afterwards is the expensive way to learn any of this.
No vague promises, and no pretending the trade-offs are not there.
Ruber is probably for you if
You want email that feels like it was designed this decade
Ruber is a mail client and a control plane, not a hosting panel with an inbox bolted to it. If you have ever kept a tab open on something you disliked using every day, that is the thing we are trying not to be. Preferring the interface is a good enough reason to move.
You care about privacy, but want it to be a choice
There are two modes and neither is the upgrade. Smart is the familiar experience with everything a server can do for you. Private is for the case where you would rather we could not read the mailbox at all, and it is available today — read in the Ruber client, with no server-side search, and not yet on the phone. We make the private choice available, not mandatory.
- SmartWhat every mailbox is today
- Ordinary standards-compatible email. The mail plane can read message contents, and that is what makes server-side search, filters, integrations and the API work.
- PrivateStill being built
- Being built so that protected contents are encrypted for you rather than readable by our servers. Real functionality goes with it — server-side search over that content is the obvious one.
You want your own domain
Point a domain you own at us and we write and verify MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC for you. The identity is yours from that moment — the MX record is what moves mail, so leaving is changing where it points and taking the mail with you.
You do not own a domain, and would rather that not be the problem
Plenty of providers make a domain the price of admission, and want a card before you have seen anything. The 30 days ask for neither: bring a domain on day one or on day twenty, and decide at the end whether it was worth €2.99 a month.
- you@ruber.meEasiest start
- An address on ruber.me, working in about a minute. The domain is ours, so the address stays with us — that is the honest cost of not needing one of your own.
- you@yourdomainOwn your identity
- Point a domain you own at us and the identity is yours. If you leave, you take it with you by repointing one DNS record.
You want defaults that work, and the ability to look behind them
Every inbound message is scored before delivery and outbound is checked too, with nothing for you to configure. Good defaults are the point — but defaults you can see the reasoning behind, rather than a black box quietly making decisions on your behalf.
Ruber may not be for you if
Six of them, at the same size as everything above. If one of these describes you, we would rather you knew now than found out in month three.
- 01
You need the cheapest possible mailbox
There will always be somewhere cheaper to keep an inbox. We are not trying to win on cents per mailbox — the money goes into the experience, the infrastructure and the privacy work. The 30-day trial exists so you can decide whether any of that is worth something to you before paying for it.
- 02
You want to send bulk email
Ruber Mail is for human correspondence. Newsletters, marketing automation, cold outreach and bulk SMTP are a different job with different infrastructure behind it, and running them through a mailbox degrades delivery for everyone sharing the reputation. Occasional automated mail — a contact form, a personal alert, a low-volume notification — is ordinary use and welcome.
- 03
You need transactional email infrastructure
Thousands of password resets, verification mails, receipts and API-generated notifications belong on infrastructure built for that, with the deliverability engineering and dedicated sending reputation it implies. Ruber does not offer one. Pretending a mailbox is a substitute would fail you at the point it matters most.
- 04
You expect the word unlimited to appear somewhere
Every plan publishes what it allows — Pro is 15 extra addresses, 100 GB and 500 a day, counted across the plan rather than per address. We care far more about how mail is used than how many addresses exist, and ordinary correspondence should never come near these numbers. Sustained automated sending is the case they exist for. Business and Enterprise are raised on request.
- 05
You expect spam filtering to be perfect
No spam filter is. Every inbound message is scored by Rspamd before delivery and it will still put something in the wrong place, in both directions. What we can offer is treating that as a fact to work with rather than a claim to make. Finer controls — trusted senders, per-domain rules — are planned and not built yet.
- 06
You expect a guarantee that mail reaches the inbox
Nobody can. Once a message leaves our infrastructure the receiving provider decides whether it lands in the inbox, in spam, or nowhere, and that decision is theirs alone. We can authenticate properly, keep the sending reputation clean and show you delivery logs. We cannot make another provider agree with us, and anyone promising otherwise is describing something they do not control.
The choices we hand you
Three places where there is no configuration that is right for everybody. We can explain what each one costs; we cannot decide it for you, and a product that quietly picks on your behalf is just one that did not want the conversation.
Where your address lives
Easiest start
@ruber.me
Working in a minute. The domain is ours.
Own your identity
Custom domain
Yours to take elsewhere. Needs a domain.
How much we can see
Familiar email
Smart
Server-side search, filters, integrations, API.
Stronger privacy
Private
Built so we cannot read it. Costs server-side search and readable IMAP, and is not on mobile yet.
Who decides what reaches you
Simple defaults
Automatic protection
Scoring on every message, nothing to configure.
More control
Advanced settings
Rules you set yourself. Planned, not built.
Things we will not pretend
Spam filters make mistakes.
Ours will misfile mail in both directions. We would rather say so than describe a classifier that is always right.
Deliverability cannot be guaranteed.
The receiving provider decides where a message lands. We control everything up to their front door and nothing past it.
Encryption has trade-offs.
If the server cannot read a message it cannot search it, filter on it or hand it to an integration. That is not a limitation waiting to be engineered away — it is the same property doing its job.
Unlimited email is not actually unlimited.
Storage and sending cost real money. Every plan publishes its numbers so you can check them against what you actually do.
An @ruber.me address lives on a domain we control.
It is a real mailbox and a good place to start, but the domain belongs to us and the address is not portable.
A custom-domain address belongs to you.
The MX record is what moves mail and it is yours to repoint. Leaving is a DNS change, not a negotiation.
Some providers will be cheaper.
We are not competing on price. If the cheapest inbox is what you need, that is a reasonable thing to need.
We will not add something just because another inbox has it.
A feature list assembled by copying competitors is how software gets heavy. Things go in when they earn their place here.
Still sound like your kind of email?
Then we would like to have you. Thirty days, on our domain or yours — nothing above changes once you are inside, which is rather the point of saying it out here.