OVH MX Plan

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Free allowance: 5 GB mailbox per account, free 100 MB web hosting with a domain, no database
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: write-gatedone mailbox per domain on the free activation, with regional variation
Evidence: documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03

Free tier	5 GB mailbox per account, free 100 MB web hosting with a domain, no database unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) one mailbox per domain on the free activation, with regional variation source the 5 GB is a mailbox storage volume and not an object size, so no kind in the six-value vocabulary names it. One mailbox per domain is the count that shapes the tier
Identity	card an OVH account with a payment method. Activation also needs a domain at OVH, which is a second gate and is recorded in the limits rather than in the identity kind, because identity_cost carries one value
Egress	not applicable
Per-object cap	5 GB per mailbox
Retention	5 GB per mailbox
Interface	unknown webmail from a browser, and an email client over IMAP (imap.mail.ovh.net or ssl0.ovh.net, port 993, SSL/TLS), POP (pop.mail.ovh.net or ssl0.ovh.net, port 995, SSL/TLS) and SMTP (smtp.mail.ovh.net or ssl0.ovh.net, port 465, SSL/TLS) in the Europe and Africa zone
Tooling	any IMAP client, per the MX Plan documentation
Composes with	the cheapest route to a real mailbox with a custom domain, at the cost of a domain and a hosting plan at OVH.
Reliability	the free activation depends on a domain and a hosting plan at OVH, with regional variation
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 10

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/web-hosting/activate-s	the free Mail MX activation bundled with a Start 10M hosting plan
2026-11-02	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborativ	MX Plan mail is used through webmail or an email client, with IMAP, POP and SMTP settings given for a user, for which the schema has no term, and the guide documents no WebDAV access
2026-11-02	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborativ	IMAP is at imap.mail.ovh.net or ssl0.ovh.net for the Europe and Africa zone
2026-11-02	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborativ	an MX Plan mailbox is read over IMAP, or over POP
2026-11-02	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborativ	IMAP uses port 993 with SSL/TLS for the Europe and Africa zone
2026-11-02	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborativ	POP is at pop.mail.ovh.net or ssl0.ovh.net on port 995 with SSL/TLS for the Europe and Africa zone
2026-11-02	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborativ	SMTP uses port 465 with SSL/TLS for the Europe and Africa zone
2026-11-02	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborativ	SMTP is at smtp.mail.ovh.net or ssl0.ovh.net for the Europe and Africa zone
2026-11-02	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborativ	the MX Plan guide was captured on 2026-11-02 and gives the IMAP and POP settings
2026-11-02	docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/email-and-collaborativ	the MX Plan guide still documents IMAP, POP and SMTP client access

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