CraneMail EU Has Been Erected - Lifetime Deals Now in Amsterdam

NameCrane

Our European location for CraneMail is (finally) live. All EU plans will be provisioned in our new Amsterdam, NL datacenter.

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What exactly is CraneMail?

CraneMail is our email hosting service that really functions more like a business suite rather than your standard pop/imap/smtp and roundcube email setups.

CraneMail includes:
✓ Full-featured webmail (view demo)
✓ Online calendar, contacts, task management
✓ SpamExperts filtering included with every domain
✓ Online meetings & company chat
✓ Online document/spreadsheet editing with OnlyOffice
✓ File storage & sharing, with rClone support (and SFTP/FTPS in testing)
✓ Support for all common protocols SMTP/POP/IMAP
✓ Plus ActiveSync (Z-Push) and MAPI+EWS support
✓ CardDAV & CalDAV syncing
✓ Much much more

Check out the FAQs and learn more about CraneMail plans on our website.

CraneMail is based on the SmarterMail mail server software, you can browse their full features here.

Try the CraneMail Demo

Login to our CraneMail demo server and give the webmail and online features a spin.

Most features are enabled on the demo box, but the ability to send email has been disabled to prevent abuse.

demo.crane.email

CraneMail Plans

CraneMail Starter 100G

• 100GB Combined Mail & File Storage
• 15 Primary Domains
• Unlimited Domain Aliases
• Unlimited Mailboxes per Domain
• SpamExperts Premium Spam Filtering
• 600 Sent Emails/hour per Domain
• Datacenter Location: EU - Amsterdam OR US - Las Vegas

Only $10/year or $20/3 years - Order Here

CraneMail Lifetime Deals

Lifetime plans available up to 10TB in storage.

CraneMail Lifetime 250G

• 250GB Combined Mail & File Storage
• 15 Primary Domains
• Unlimited Domain Aliases
• Unlimited Mailboxes per Domain
• SpamExperts Premium Spam Filtering
• 600 Sent Emails/hour per Domain
• Datacenter Location: EU - Amsterdamn OR US - Las Vegas
• Lifetime access for a single one-time payment

$75 Lifetime Deal - One-Time Payment - Order Here

View all of our Lifetime Plans up to 10TB here.

CraneMail Reseller Plans

CraneMail Reseller 150G

• 150GB Reseller Mail & Cloud Storage
• Up to 30 Sub-Accounts/Primary Domains
• Unlimited Domain Aliases
• Unlimited Mailboxes per Domain
• WHMCS/Blesta Billing Modules (Github)
• SpamExperts Premium Spam Filtering
• 600 Sent Emails/hour per Domain

$15/quarter, $50/year, $120/3 years

NEW FTPS Support + rClone

We've been working hard on improving the cloud storage functionality to give you even more ways to utilize our large storage offers.

We've still got our custom rClone builds and are working to get our storage API added to the mainline rClone releases. We recently completed a full overhaul of our backend storage API to improve rClone performance. You can find our rClone builds on Github here.

We've also built a custom FTPS connector so you can interact with your CraneMail storage from any app/service that supports FTPS. We're still testing this out and making improvements, but it's available today on port 8221.

SFTP support is coming, we're still working on it. The best place to learn more and discuss/get help with the beta features is on our Discord - you can join us here: https://discord.gg/tRbJjyVvmj

NEW EU Location

We've said goodbye to Luxembourg and Hallo to Amsterdam, our new EU location for all web and email hosting services. Web hosting plans were already live migrated over the past 2 weeks.

This move brings a bunch of improvements to our services, but the biggest is definitely connectivity. We're utilizing Eranium as our upstream with a higher quality bandwidth blend, plus a 100G peering port on ERA-IX to further improve our connectivity within the EU.

NEW Affiliate Program

We've opened up our affiliate program so you can now earn a commission to referring friends to NameCrane.

We support payouts as account credit, via PayPal, as well as Wise - including wise-to-wise transactions and other supported methods like bank transfers and AliPay/WePay. Transaction fees are subtracted from your payout amount for Wise transactions that have a transaction/conversion fee paid by the sender.

Login to your NameCrane account and activate the affiliate program here.

somik

Did you see the statue that looks like a penis? I hear they just erected it.

treesmokah

Yooo

COLBYLICIOUS

I've got the 250GB lifetime, hope for the best!

legendary

Demo is in chinese.

cybertech

good stuff

PieR

I've got the 250GB lifetime too! yay!

NameCrane

@legendary said:
Demo is in chinese.

Heh. It resets every 4 hours, someone probably did a language swap while you were checking.

COLBYLICIOUS

@PieR said:
I've got the 250GB lifetime too! yay!

Welcome to the club.

Otus9051

Plans for a 100G Lifetime?

NameCrane

@Otus9051 said:
Plans for a 100G Lifetime?

No plans to go smaller than the 250G

ZA_capetown

Congratulations with your erection

Mason

Happy customer of the lifetime plan

Dumb question: is there a way for me to search emails and have it actually search my entire inbox rather than just the last couple days? Not sure if that's a limitation of SmarterMail or if there's something I'm missing

bdl

@Mason said:
Happy customer of the lifetime plan

Dumb question: is there a way for me to search emails and have it actually search my entire inbox rather than just the last couple days? Not sure if that's a limitation of SmarterMail or if there's something I'm missing

I found I had to reindex my mail to fix that.

Log in with an domain admin account in SmarterMail then go More -> Domain Settings -> (right click on mail user) -> Reindex.

Mason

@bdl said:

@Mason said:
Happy customer of the lifetime plan

Dumb question: is there a way for me to search emails and have it actually search my entire inbox rather than just the last couple days? Not sure if that's a limitation of SmarterMail or if there's something I'm missing

I found I had to reindex my mail to fix that.

Log in with an domain admin account in SmarterMail then go More -> Domain Settings -> (right click on mail user) -> Reindex.

That did the trick, thanks a ton!! Was looking for that everywhere but didn't realize that right-clicking on a user presented more options. All fixed up now

secure

Is it possible to use your own domain to login in webmail or its available only for resellers?

bdl

@secure said:
Is it possible to use your own domain to login in webmail or its available only for resellers?

yes you can, no problem.

dgc1980

@secure said:
Is it possible to use your own domain to login in webmail or its available only for resellers?

you just CNAME your mail address to the (us1/eu1).workspace.org and it will automatically get the letsencrypt cert and all for you.

Francisco

@dgc1980 said:

@secure said:
Is it possible to use your own domain to login in webmail or its available only for resellers?

you just CNAME your mail address to the (us1/eu1).workspace.org and it will automatically get the letsencrypt cert and all for you.

Anyone can white label workspace.org as well by doing a cname to that domain actual branding (changing the page colours and stylesheet) will be limited to resellers in the future.

Francisco

Shot²

Is it possible to send from any email address in a domain (the equivalent of catch-all, but for sending)? or do you have to create (even if temporarily) aliases?

dgc1980

@Shot² said:
Is it possible to send from any email address in a domain (the equivalent of catch-all, but for sending)? or do you have to create (even if temporarily) aliases?

you can send as any address within that domain. even if it is a catch all.

jmaxwell

@dgc1980 said:

@Shot² said:
Is it possible to send from any email address in a domain (the equivalent of catch-all, but for sending)? or do you have to create (even if temporarily) aliases?

you can send as any address within that domain. even if it is a catch all.

How to configure this?
Can’t find the option to send from the alias. Tried Webmail, iOS mail app

Shot²

@dgc1980 said:

@Shot² said:
Is it possible to send from any email address in a domain (the equivalent of catch-all, but for sending)? or do you have to create (even if temporarily) aliases?

you can send as any address within that domain. even if it is a catch all.

Thanks. I receive email to hundreds of addresses (thanks to catchall) - I would hate having to configure hundreds of aliases just to be able to reply...

dgc1980

@jmaxwell said: How to configure this?

Can’t find the option to send from the alias. Tried Webmail, iOS mail app

depends on the client, in eM Client it has an option to add send as aliases so you can send as them. but the server itself allows you to send as different addresses than the one you are logged in as.

Francisco

@dgc1980 said:

@jmaxwell said: How to configure this?

Can’t find the option to send from the alias. Tried Webmail, iOS mail app

depends on the client, in eM Client it has an option to add send as aliases so you can send as them. but the server itself allows you to send as different addresses than the one you are logged in as.

Sending from a catch-all isn't a thing on webmail yet.

If you have named aliases then you can pick them in the webmail popup and just set it in the 'FROM' drop down.

Francisco

Amadex

I like it, already using it for two of my clients.

jmaxwell

@dgc1980 said:

@jmaxwell said: How to configure this?

Can’t find the option to send from the alias. Tried Webmail, iOS mail app

depends on the client, in eM Client it has an option to add send as aliases so you can send as them. but the server itself allows you to send as different addresses than the one you are logged in as.

OK, in eM Client, I can see the option to reply from the alias to which the mail arrived, but the reply mails never go to the sender.

dgc1980

@jmaxwell said: OK, in eM Client, I can see the option to reply from the alias to which the mail arrived, but the reply mails never go to the sender.

I just found a option you may need to enable in the namecrane control panel, not smartermail

edit this option on your aliases

edit: ok my bad again, this is not for catch all, will work on it

edit2: enabled the same on Catch All and it worked perfectly

jmaxwell

@dgc1980 said:

@jmaxwell said: OK, in eM Client, I can see the option to reply from the alias to which the mail arrived, but the reply mails never go to the sender.

I just found a option you may need to enable in the namecrane control panel, not smartermail

edit this option on your aliases

edit: ok my bad again, this is not for catch all, will work on it

edit2: enabled the same on Catch All and it worked perfectly

That’s how mine looks like. Replying from an actual alias works fine, but not from one of those catchall addresses.

somik

@jmaxwell said:

@dgc1980 said:

@jmaxwell said: OK, in eM Client, I can see the option to reply from the alias to which the mail arrived, but the reply mails never go to the sender.

I just found a option you may need to enable in the namecrane control panel, not smartermail

edit this option on your aliases

edit: ok my bad again, this is not for catch all, will work on it

edit2: enabled the same on Catch All and it worked perfectly

That’s how mine looks like. Replying from an actual alias works fine, but not from one of those catchall addresses.

Word of advise, avoid using catchall emails as now a days, some of the sites flag catchall domains as email re-directors and will not allow you to signup or validate with their site with your domain. I used to have some of my domains as catch all as i tended to sign up with websites with a unique ID so I can track which sites are selling my email addresses based on which emails receive spam. But in the recent years, I started seeing my catch all domains being soft barred, where the sites do not send the verification email to my catchall domains. After a bit of research, it turns out they'll try to send a email to a random address, like [email protected] and if the site accepts it, it'll NOT send any email to that domain.

I got around the issue by creating multiple mail aliases forwarding emails to a single inbox. All random email addresses in the domain are rejected so the sites are more then happy to validate my email address as legit and not a "free email redirection service"

jmaxwell

@somik said:

@jmaxwell said:

@dgc1980 said:

@jmaxwell said: OK, in eM Client, I can see the option to reply from the alias to which the mail arrived, but the reply mails never go to the sender.

I just found a option you may need to enable in the namecrane control panel, not smartermail

edit this option on your aliases

edit: ok my bad again, this is not for catch all, will work on it

edit2: enabled the same on Catch All and it worked perfectly

That’s how mine looks like. Replying from an actual alias works fine, but not from one of those catchall addresses.

Word of advise, avoid using catchall emails as now a days, some of the sites flag catchall domains as email re-directors and will not allow you to signup or validate with their site with your domain. I used to have some of my domains as catch all as i tended to sign up with websites with a unique ID so I can track which sites are selling my email addresses based on which emails receive spam. But in the recent years, I started seeing my catch all domains being soft barred, where the sites do not send the verification email to my catchall domains. After a bit of research, it turns out they'll try to send a email to a random address, like [email protected] and if the site accepts it, it'll NOT send any email to that domain.

I got around the issue by creating multiple mail aliases forwarding emails to a single inbox. All random email addresses in the domain are rejected so the sites are more then happy to validate my email address as legit and not a "free email redirection service"

Thanks, that makes sense. Are there any email clients that help to generate aliases on the go? Manageable from webmail with a few clicks, but it would be good to have such a feature. I tried eM Client on iOS, and it has a create alias option, but it seems to create only locally, and sending or receiving doesn’t work.

dgc1980

@jmaxwell said:

did you enable send from catch-all in eM Client?

dgc1980

@jmaxwell said: Thanks, that makes sense. Are there any email clients that help to generate aliases on the go?

what I use is a self hosted version of addy.io for a domain that I use for aliases only, there is a browser extension that can automatically create aliases for sites and keeps note on what site it is used for etc, there is even a BitWarden link for it to generate a new email for sites when you make accounts.

then I use namecrane as the stmp relay for this alias service that then gets sent to another domain hosted on namecrane where all my emails get stored.

addy.io will automatically hide you main email address when replying to emails etc

somik

@jmaxwell said:
Thanks, that makes sense. Are there any email clients that help to generate aliases on the go? Manageable from webmail with a few clicks, but it would be good to have such a feature. I tried eM Client on iOS, and it has a create alias option, but it seems to create only locally, and sending or receiving doesn’t work.

I had to create my own script that takes inputs from my Telegram bot and passes it to my Virtualmin website panel to create/list/delete aliases for my domains. It's easy to do on cPanel as well using a simple script, but I am not aware of any client that is able to do it since it needs to be done from the backend by editing the server's main processor...

Francisco

Some improvements went out tonight

Mobile ActiveSync now supports 2FA, just use your IMAP or MAPI/EWS password! we've also enabled Calendar & Contact syncing. iPhone users will need to go to Settings > Accounts, click your Exchange account, and enable Contacts and Calendars in the sync list. Remote Global Address List searching will be implemented once Smartermail adds backend support.

Enjoy!

Francisco

AuroraZero

Wait there are erections in here and I missed them?

bdl

@AuroraZero said:
Wait there are erections in here and I missed them?

root

@NameCrane and @Francisco - is it possible to add proper IPv6 with your hosting plans? Right now a /128 needs to be asked from support, and that works on just 1 domain from the shared hosting plans. If other domains are added, those websites display the content of that one domain instead (just over IPv6).

Maybe you could configure for hosting plans something like a /64 for each customer, and each website gets a /128 from that /64 - just a thought. Right now /128 creates more problems with its improper implementation.

Francisco

@root said:
@NameCrane and @Francisco - is it possible to add proper IPv6 with your hosting plans? Right now a /128 needs to be asked from support, and that works on just 1 domain from the shared hosting plans. If other domains are added, those get forwarded to that one domain instead (just over IPv6).

Maybe you could configure for hosting plans something like a /64 for each customer, and each website gets a /128 from that /64 - just a thought. Right now /128 creates more problems with its poor implementation.

Each DA shared gets a dedicated v6. A reseller gets a single v6 to share with all users but can ask for more in ticket.

On cpanel each user gets their own v6, no sharing anywhere.

It’s all about how each panel handles v6.

Francisco

root

@Francisco said:

@root said:
@NameCrane and @Francisco - is it possible to add proper IPv6 with your hosting plans? Right now a /128 needs to be asked from support, and that works on just 1 domain from the shared hosting plans. If other domains are added, those get forwarded to that one domain instead (just over IPv6).

Maybe you could configure for hosting plans something like a /64 for each customer, and each website gets a /128 from that /64 - just a thought. Right now /128 creates more problems with its poor implementation.

Each DA shared gets a dedicated v6. A reseller gets a single v6 to share with all users but can ask for more in ticket.

On cpanel each user gets their own v6, no sharing anywhere.

It’s all about how each panel handles v6.

Francisco

Yeah, but that v6 works on just one domain in DA. Even in the panel on DNS settings it is showed for just 1 domain. So if that v6 is configured for other domains, the website of that one domain is showed across other domains too (instead of each proper domain's website). This behaviour would be nice, if every domain would get a different /128.

So it does not work with 1 /128 and it does not configure different /128 either.

root

@root said:

@Francisco said:

@root said:
@NameCrane and @Francisco - is it possible to add proper IPv6 with your hosting plans? Right now a /128 needs to be asked from support, and that works on just 1 domain from the shared hosting plans. If other domains are added, those get forwarded to that one domain instead (just over IPv6).

Maybe you could configure for hosting plans something like a /64 for each customer, and each website gets a /128 from that /64 - just a thought. Right now /128 creates more problems with its poor implementation.

Each DA shared gets a dedicated v6. A reseller gets a single v6 to share with all users but can ask for more in ticket.

On cpanel each user gets their own v6, no sharing anywhere.

It’s all about how each panel handles v6.

Francisco

Yeah, but that v6 works on just one domain in DA. Even in the panel on DNS settings it is showed for just 1 domain. So if that v6 is configured for other domains, the website of that one domain is showed across other domains too (instead of each proper domain's website). This behaviour would be nice, if every domain would get a different /128.

So it does not work with 1 /128 and it does not configure different /128 either.

If you need my customer ID or something, I can provide it to have a look. But my guess is you can reproduce it. Server is Las Vegas shared 02 - if it helps.

Crab

These offers look excellent. Time to get a credit card out!

lowendmeow

Hi @NameCrane I missed this post earlier this year - if we have an existing lifetime in the Nevada location is there an option to migrate to Amsterdam? thanks

willie

@NameCrane is the company Canadian like BuyVM, or is it headquartered in the US, or where? Thanks.

Joseph

@willie said:
@NameCrane is the company Canadian like BuyVM, or is it headquartered in the US, or where? Thanks.

I thought BuyVM and BuyShared were American.

willie

IDK the current situation with BuyVM but it was originally Canadian and the "client area" link from the home page still goes to my.frantech.ca.

bikegremlin

@Francisco said:
Some improvements went out tonight

Mobile ActiveSync now supports 2FA, just use your IMAP or MAPI/EWS password! we've also enabled Calendar & Contact syncing. iPhone users will need to go to Settings > Accounts, click your Exchange account, and enable Contacts and Calendars in the sync list. Remote Global Address List searching will be implemented once Smartermail adds backend support.

Enjoy!

Francisco

Great. That is handy.

When will the contact list import limit be raised over 10 MB?
Is that a SmarterMail imposed limit or something else?

bikegremlin

@Crab said:
These offers look excellent. Time to get a credit card out!

I could not find a cheaper price per GB of storage - plus it is one-time payment so no card/payment worries (even though the subscription price is very low too ($20 per three years for a 100 GB plan).

Not super stable for transactional emails (some SmarterMail bug that software vendor should fix), a bit slower compared to MXroute (IMAP sync and general operation) but OK for normal email correspondence.

If those small wrinkles get ironed out it will be awesome. I have risked with a lifetime hoping for the best (and supporting the project with my money).

Francisco

@bikegremlin said: Great. That is handy.

When will the contact list import limit be raised over 10 MB?

Is that a SmarterMail imposed limit or something else?

Drop a ticket and i'll take a look

@bikegremlin said: Not super stable for transactional emails (some SmarterMail bug that software vendor should fix), a bit slower compared to MXroute (IMAP sync and general operation) but OK for normal email correspondence.

>

Its possible we've simply pushed SM a bit too hard though their devs don't think that.

Thankfully EU & US2 don't have the same issue.

Francisco

bikegremlin

@Francisco said:

@bikegremlin said: Great. That is handy.

When will the contact list import limit be raised over 10 MB?

Is that a SmarterMail imposed limit or something else?

Drop a ticket and i'll take a look

See ticket #CRANE-18478 from 2025-12-12.

@bikegremlin said: Not super stable for transactional emails (some SmarterMail bug that software vendor should fix), a bit slower compared to MXroute (IMAP sync and general operation) but OK for normal email correspondence.

>

Its possible we've simply pushed SM a bit too hard though their devs don't think that.

Thankfully EU & US2 don't have the same issue.

Francisco

It sounds like this is specific to the US1 cluster.

Is there a plan to remediate US1, or would migration to EU or US2 be the practical solution for affected users?

What would you recommend?

Waiting for a fix is also an option, but this is turning into months now. Is there any rough expected time for this to be fixed?

willie

By the way I asked about the company location because some potential users are avoiding US companies for privacy reasons.