Getting started with your Ostrae address
From a new Ostrae Account to your first message: what to do, what you will see, and how the inbox is organized.
Updated October 2026 · Describes the product as it is today.
1. Create your Ostrae Account
Ostrae.email has no separate password. You use one Ostrae Account for Ostrae.email and the other Ostrae products. If you do not have one yet, create an Account. Your profile, passkeys and security settings are managed there.
2. Choose your address and verify your recovery email
In your Account, open the Ostrae.email page and choose the name for your @ostrae.email address. Verify your recovery email when you are asked to.
Activation usually takes 1–5 minutes after the recovery email is verified. Capacity or provider problems can take longer. Until then your address is reserved, and the inbox shows that it is getting ready instead of an empty mailbox. The page checks again on its own every 30 seconds.
3. Sign in to your inbox
Open ostrae.email/mail and choose Sign in with Ostrae. You sign in on account.ostrae.tech and confirm that Ostrae.email may access your mailbox; your password is never entered on ostrae.email. Afterwards you return to your inbox. A sign-in lasts up to 12 hours or until you sign out.
Finding your way around
- Folders on the left: Inbox, Starred, Sent, Drafts, Archive, Junk, Trash, your own folders and All mail. Unread counts appear next to the folder name.
- Messages in the middle, 40 per page. Unread messages are marked with a dot.
- Reader on the right, with actions to star, mark read or unread, archive and move to Trash. In Trash you can restore a message to the Inbox or delete it permanently after a confirmation.
- Search looks through the current folder; in All mail it searches everything. Escape clears the search.
Writing and replying
Choose New message or Reply. Add recipients in To, or open Cc / Bcc. A message can have up to 10 recipients in total and up to 12,000 characters. Your draft stays in the open composer until you send or close it; drafts are not saved yet, and closing asks before discarding. Sent mail appears in Sent.
Appearance and phones
Light is the default. Choose Dark in Settings → General; the choice is saved in this browser. On a phone, the folders open from the menu button, the reader takes the full width, and the composer opens full screen.