About Us & Our Mission
25+ years of verifiable, continuous operation. The public record is below.
Our History
CodaMail is the latest evolution of Cotse.Net, founded in January 1999, five years before Gmail launched. We emerged from the cypherpunk movement with a team of security and privacy-focused technologists who wanted to build something different: email that actually respected user privacy, without the false marketing, while remaining practical and interoperable.
- January 1999: Founded as Cotse.com with unlimited email aliases, years before it became an industry standard
- July 2001: 22,000 users necessitate moving mail from Cotse.com and creating Cotse.Net. Full SSL before it became mainstream. Early PGP adoption as soon as strong cryptography stopped being classified as a munition..
- June 2008: Reached 100,000 users.
- 2012: Expanded into two new datacenters.
- 2023 - 2024: Built our own self-hosted cloud infrastructure, began testing.
- March 2025: Full migration of the service into our new infrastructure. Renamed CodaMail. complete redesign of the service, same team (with some new hires).
- July 2025: Released our own built from scratch privacy preserving WebDAV server.
- 2026: Began focusing on website design and documentation, this site will continue to evolve.
- Servers now maintained across four states and three countries. Currently processing approximately 15 million messages a day.
About Us
We've never had to take venture capital, never had to run advertising, and have grown entirely through word of mouth from satisfied subscribers who value both technical excellence and personal service. We've stayed intentionally independent and are fully self-supporting. No outside investors, no acquisition pressure, no compromises on what the service should be.
Today, CodaMail operates under Packetderm LLC, the same company that has maintained this service for over two and a half decades. We maintain servers across four states and three countries, providing the robust, reliable infrastructure our subscribers depend on, while remaining small enough to provide genuine personal support. Every developer spends time on helpdesk because that's the pulse of the service. It's how we know what to build, fix, and improve.
Our longevity isn't the result of marketing, it's because we've stayed true to our values: privacy, flexibility, open standards, rapid response, and treating every subscriber as an individual.
Our Mission
What We Strive to Provide
We believe people prioritize reliability, speed, flexibility, interoperability, security, and privacy. They want their mail to be there when they need it, whether that's on a phone, a laptop, or a web interface. They expect messages to arrive quickly, sent in minutes, received in minutes, and they want searches to be fast and comprehensive, not something that stalls because every message has to be decrypted client-side before it can be indexed.
Interoperability matters just as much. People don't want to frustrate recipients by forcing them to follow links, create accounts, or perform extra steps just to read every message, though they accept it when sending something truly sensitive. They want email to just work, regardless of whether they or their recipient uses Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, a phone, or a web client.
They expect their favorite email apps, calendars, contacts, task lists, and notes to sync natively with their devices using standard protocols, not proprietary apps or locked ecosystems. And they increasingly expect modern conveniences: scheduled sending, easy-to-use aliases, the ability to reject what they don't want, intelligent organization, out-of-office replies, forwarding, encryption when needed, and features that go well beyond what basic mail hosts offer.
Encryption as Choice, Not Mandate
When it comes to encryption, what most people want is choice.
They don't want to be locked into a walled garden where every message is treated the same and interoperability is sacrificed in the name of purity. Instead, they want the ability to decide:
- This message should be encrypted end-to-end
- That one is fine being broadly readable
- Another might need zero-access encryption at rest
- Or perhaps everything should be zero-access encrypted
We provide the tools to encrypt everything if you want to, specific aliases if you prefer, messages matching your own criteria, or nothing at all if that suits your needs. The choice is yours, not ours.
⚙️ People Want Control
Email isn't trying to be Signal, and it shouldn't be forced into that mold. People want email to remain universal, fast, and dependable, while still giving them meaningful privacy controls when and where they actually make sense.
We built CodaMail on open standards with the latest encryption: TLS 1.2 and 1.3 required for everything, AES-256-GCM at rest, automatic PGP for zero access, Secure Private CalDAV and CardDAV, and standard Sieve Filtering. Use any email client you want. Sync with any device that supports standard protocols. Import and export your data freely, we ensured that absolutely everything is easy to import and export. You are never locked in.
We've spent 25+ years perfecting this balance: maximum flexibility, genuine privacy options, complete interoperability, and the reliability of infrastructure you can depend on.
Email that works the way email should work, with the privacy controls you actually need, and the flexibility to use it however you choose.
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