Depot
Mail hosting · Built in Vancouver

Email infrastructure
that is proudly,
deliberately boring.

Domains, mailboxes, aliases, forwards. IMAP, JMAP, SMTP. Mail arrives, mail sends, nothing surprising happens. That is the entire pitch — and the boring is the point.

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// judged on whether it works at 3am, not on how it demos

What you’re buying

A short, honest ledger.

Every mail provider promises the first column. The second is the one that tells you what Depot refuses to become.

What it is

Boring-done-well. The unglamorous things, done right.

  • Delivery that works. The only feature anyone actually notices — messages in inboxes, not spam folders.
  • Pricing that’s the same next month. Flat, legible, no per-feature upsell.
  • An API that reports what happened. Provisioning is one call, and it tells the truth about the outcome.
  • A credible exit. Standard protocols, full export, no lock-in. Easy to leave is what makes you willing to arrive.

What it deliberately isn’t

Cleverness is a different product. This one stays out of your way.

  • No agents, no AI, no opinionated workflows.
  • No per-seat math that punishes a second domain.
  • No dashboard that reinvents email into something you have to learn.
  • No lock-in dressed up as a feature.

The honest API

Provisioning is a call that tells the truth.

Create a mailbox and the API reports what actually happened on the mail server — success with the real record, or a failure with a status code you can trust. That’s a low bar. The incumbent currently fails it.

POST /api/v1/domains/mxplane.com/mailboxes
POST /api/v1/domains/mxplane.com/mailboxes
Authorization: Bearer dpt_live_•••••••• · Idempotency-Key: 3f9a…
{ "local_part": "ana", "quota_mb": 2048 }
201 Created · 47ms · X-Request-Id: req_8Kd2…
{
"id": "mbx_01J9…", "address": "ana@mxplane.com",
"status": "active", "provisioned": true
}
// and when the mail server refuses, you hear about it:
502 Bad Gateway { "code": "mail_server_failed", "message": "…" }

A failed provision returns 502 and rolls its record back — it never reports success it didn’t achieve. Honest status is the whole point.

Boring, done well

Four things, and nothing you have to learn.

01 · delivery

Lands in the inbox

JMAP, DKIM, SPF, MTA-STS — the standards that reduce surprises, configured for you.

02 · pricing

Flat and legible

Unlimited domains and mailboxes. One number, the same next month.

03 · api

Provision by call

Mailboxes by API, not by clicking a console. Idempotent, audited, typed.

04 · exit

Leave whenever

Standard protocols and a full export. The door is unlocked from the inside.

Where your mail lives — no fudging

Hosted in the EU. Built in Vancouver. Headed for Canada.

Today your mail sits in Germany, under GDPR — outside the reach of the US CLOUD Act. Depot is built and run from Vancouver, and Canadian residency is the destination on our roadmap, not a badge we’d wear before it’s true.

we’ll always tell you exactly where your mail is — because you can check