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mail.com Reviews Summary

mail.com has a rating of 1.4 stars from 214 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with mail.com most frequently mention customer service, email account and abuse department. mail.com ranks 156th among Email sites.

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47
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Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Rip off scamers
January 14, 2023

Was a good free service and then I signed up for premium for 1 year after that year was up there was no option to go back to free service as premium offered no value now I am frozen out of my account and there is no customer support to contact. It is a sophisticated scam they are clearly playing a long game.

Date of experience: January 14, 2023
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I had been a premium account user for many years and never had an issue. My account got blocked for "irregular Activity" meaning that there was spam coming from my account. I had no knowledge of this and no warning from mail.com... just blocked my account permanently with no detailed reason given (other than irregular activity). Their help center indicates that if you get a notice concerning irregular activity, you can request a verification code sent to your mobile phone, and once verified, you can reset your password to protect your account. No such opportunity given...just permanently block the account. I did reach out to their customer care team and they just respond back with a typical response template to refer to their terms and conditions. As a result I have lost all my emails, contacts, and whatever files I had stored in their cloud that I pay a premium price to safe guard my files. Now I cannot even access those, so what was the purpose of paying for a cloud service that I am now permanently blocked from accessing. Wish I could give a lower score than 1 as even that is too high. Terrible company and customer service is even worse to deal with. Please avoid and learn from this experience and take your business elsewhere.

Date of experience: December 23, 2022
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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DO NOT TRUST
December 22, 2022

Mail.com reissues closed email address. Mail.com refuses to open new accounts without explanation stating they will get back with a reason... They can answer negative reviews within hours, it's been over a week, NO RESPONSE. Arrogant, non responsive, refuse to accept any responsibility for their errors. Could have been such an assume service, but NO!

Date of experience: December 22, 2022
Georgia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Do not use mail.com
November 11, 2022

Zero rating if there was one like that.
They invalidated my email I had used for my banking and credit card needs. I went out on military service for 7 months when I came back I wasn't able to use my email anymore. I called them the guy told me that I have lost the email forever because I didn't login within 6 months. He also added that it is very easy to login into an email at least once every 6 months if it is very important to the customer. I thought that was very naive and limited. So do not use mail.com if your intend to find your email intact and active.

Date of experience: November 11, 2022
Kentucky
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Can't get into my email
October 31, 2022

5 minutes after setting up an email account, it said there was suspicious activity and locked me out. Been trying to get back in for a week. No support, no customer service. Don't use them.

Date of experience: October 31, 2022
Wisconsin
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Keeps wanting me to allow ads on my e-mail. Why should I? It gets aggravated when I refuse. If you forget to log out you get a long message when you log back in. Important stuff goes to spam. Takes too many clocks to get in. Terrible email site.

Date of experience: September 18, 2022
KR
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Half the time the site is unresponive. There are about 75 trackers built-in to it's web pages to capture every keystroke and mouse movement. They peole are serious about capturing as much personal data as they can about each and every user.

Date of experience: August 13, 2022
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I've had several accounts over the years and they stop working w/o notice.
Lost everything. TERRIBLE

Date of experience: June 9, 2022
Ohio
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Mail.com doesn't have any Customer support. There isn't anyone that will help if you can't get in your own account. Of all apps I've ever used mail.com is the worst.

Date of experience: May 22, 2022
Massachusetts
4 reviews
14 helpful votes
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Since 2013 I've had my account. It has typical features. I have 12 folders added to sort mail. It has good spam control. Aft I got familiar with its differences find is easy to use, as any other free webmail.

Date of experience: March 27, 2022
Italy
1 review
1 helpful vote
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LOW reputation
March 24, 2022

This account has a very low reputation and many of my *******@mail.com go to spam, in past to my bank but now also *******@gmail.com accounts

Date of experience: March 24, 2022
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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One star too too many
February 6, 2022

This email service is a bunch of crap. I have lost a lot of my data and always being locked out of my email for no reason what's so ever. The security dept gives no reason. Thank God I never was a sucker to buy the premium version.

Michael Godwin

Date of experience: February 6, 2022
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My free version of the account was deleted because it was inactive for 6 months. I signed up because I thought it would be better than Gmail which censors content, but it is actually worse. Mail.com censors too, and wouldn't let websites I signed up for send a verification pin because they blacklisted them for "spam," or unsolicited emails. As a result, I quit using mail.com to sign up for new websites, and quit logging in, and recently am unable to use certain accounts that use that address because of my email getting deleted. I didn't know that free accounts were deleted after 6 months when signing up because that is buried deep in their terms of service, or "fine print" if you will. At first, I wished I had bought the pay version, but the more I read, even it sucks. They can go bankrupt for all I care unless they get their act together.

Date of experience: January 21, 2022
Croatia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They never replied back. First time i contacted them was to see why my email suddenly does not exist, that was 5 months ago. Now i contacted them 2 days ago and do not have my hopes up

Date of experience: December 25, 2021
Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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After being repeatedly questioned, and prodded for more and more personal information, I finally said no to their continued requests for vital financial data. I was immediately shut out of my account.
I contacted customer service, which is entirely non-existent.,
Now, my work email is getting inundated with SPAM, from Mail.com addressed scammers.
Mail.com is a phishing scam. Your information is not safe.

Date of experience: December 17, 2021
Florida
6 reviews
5 helpful votes
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I've been a Mail.com customer for 6 or 8 years now, and I'm usually satisfied. I pay a small annual charge for premium service and get my emails without ads, and never had my account blocked or closed. The system is customer-friendly and normally does what it is supposed to do.
But when it doesn't, look out! Occasionally, there will be some glitch on the site, and when I ask about it, I ALWAYS get the same answer. User error. My fault! I'm treated like a novice and sent a standardized reply that tells me all the things to check so I can correct my own mistake(s). Guess what? A few days later the glitch miraculously is fixed, and it wasn't my fault at all. The business concept is ok, but the tech folks behind it are incompetent.

Date of experience: December 15, 2021
Poland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scam based mail services
December 10, 2021

Do not give personal data in the web services. Seems as scam,
The minute a mailbox is created is blocked.

Date of experience: December 10, 2021
District of Columbia
5 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Doesn't work on desktop!
November 19, 2021

I was more than happy to sign up for this account as I'm sick to death of screwed-up Gmail that discriminates against the seniors who don't use mobile phones. Seems this one only works on mobile phone apps. When I searched "Where is my inbox?", it came up with a lot of answers on where to find it on your mobile. When I searched "Where is my inbox on my desktop?", it came up "No results." As I was trying to post this review, sitejabber is insistent on a "Proof of Purchase". Please note that not EVERYTHING is bought that is getting reviewed. I suggest you delete that repeat feature. Thanks.

Date of experience: November 19, 2021
Nevada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Love love love mail.com
November 15, 2021

We love mail.com this is the only email address me and my whole family use is perfect Email ever it's great please stay up I hope it last forever it would be sad to go keep the good work mail. Comwe enjoy you very much you never let me down five stars I would give 10 stars if I could

Date of experience: November 14, 2021
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Worst email provider
October 26, 2021

I have been with them since 1999. Out of the blue, they asked me to change my password. Right after that, I got blocked. If you are still using it, please move to google. Terrible customer service. I wish I could give them negative stars.
Run Run Run

Date of experience: October 26, 2021