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title: "A free personal email address"
description: "Every OpenEmail account comes with yourname@openemail.uk, a free address that sends and receives, in a personal mailbox kept apart from your workspaces."
url: "https://openemail.uk/features/free-address"
---

[Domains & addresses](https://openemail.uk/features.md#addresses)

# A free personal address Your name, already an address.

Signing up gives you a username and an address under it on openemail.uk. It sends and receives like any other address, in a personal mailbox of its own.

[Open mail](https://openemail.uk/mail/inbox) [Get Started](https://openemail.uk/signup.md)[All features](https://openemail.uk/features.md)

In short

## What is a personal mailbox?

A personal mailbox holds the mail that belongs to you rather than to a business. Every OpenEmail account comes with one on openemail.uk, under your username, kept apart from your workspaces.

How it works

## Sign in with either address

Use your openemail.uk address or the email you signed up with, and the same password for both. A password reset for the new address goes to the email you signed up with.

## Business mode switches sides

Business mode, in the account menu, switches between the personal mailbox and your workspaces, and switching deletes nothing. The parts that belong to a business, such as domains and the team, stay on the workspace side.

## Pick it before you sign up

Choose your username in the box on the page for individuals, and signing up gives you the address under it on openemail.uk.

What you get

## In the product today

Sends and receives

It works like any other address, in both directions.

Nothing lost in a switch

Switching with Business mode deletes nothing. Both sides keep their mail.

Out of reach of keys

The personal mailbox stays out of reach of API keys, connected apps and the MCP server.

Good practice

## Getting the most out of it

1. 01
   
   Choose the name first
   
   Try the names you like in the box on the page for individuals, then sign up with the one you want.
2. 02
   
   Keep your sign-up email
   
   A password reset for the openemail.uk address goes to the email you signed up with, so keep that one working.
3. 03
   
   Keep business in a workspace
   
   Domains, the team and billing live in your workspaces, so mail that belongs to a business sits better there.

Questions

## Asked often

Keep going

## Works well with

Send as any alias

Reply from the exact address the mail arrived on.

Merged inboxes

Read every address in one stream, or narrow to the two or three you actually work out of.

Start

## Your domain, your mail.

Point a domain at OpenEmail and read it in a mailbox built around it. The free plan covers one domain.

[Open mail](https://openemail.uk/mail/inbox) [Get Started](https://openemail.uk/signup.md)[Read the reference](https://openemail.uk/docs/knowledge/addresses/free-address.md)