Urbit Mail

Your keys, your mail

Messages are delivered directly to your Urbit ship and stored only there. The gateway is a bridge, not a mailbox — nothing is kept after delivery.

Invisible infrastructure

Your IP address is never exposed. Cloudflare accepts incoming SMTP, the gateway forwards via Urbit's peer-to-peer network. Senders see only the domain.

Clean content

Scripts, tracker pixels, and dangerous HTML are stripped before delivery. You get readable text, not a surveillance payload.

Two-way communication

Reply to any email from your ship. The gateway translates your @p into a proper sender address that the outside world can reply to.

Why Urbit Mail?

You own your mail. Actually own it.

Messages live on your ship, not on Google's servers
No terms of service that can lock you out overnight
No content scanning to sell you ads
No “your account is suspended, verify your phone number”
Your identity is a cryptographic key, not a username someone else controls

Unlimited addresses, one inbox

Use ~ship.work, ~ship.newsletters, ~ship.shopping — all delivered to the same ship
Give a unique address to every service — instant disposable emails with no setup
Labels auto-sort incoming mail by address, so your inbox stays clean
Like Apple’s Hide My Email, but free, unlimited, and under your control

Built for the network

Ship-to-ship messages travel over Urbit’s encrypted peer-to-peer network — they never touch the public internet
A group of ships sharing a gateway is a self-hosted corporate email system — no Microsoft or Google required
The gateway is stateless: it forwards and forgets. Your ship is the only place mail is stored

How it works

Someone sends an email to [email protected]

Cloudflare receives the message and passes it to the gateway

The gateway sanitizes the content and delivers it to your ship over Urbit's encrypted network

You read and reply from your %mail-client — replies go out as regular email from your @p address