Every mail company answers one question, whether they say it out loud or not:
how long do they keep your mail, and who can read it while they do.
Traditional providers answer forever, and us.
Liir lets you turn that dial: all the way down to never.
How traditional mail works
gmail, outlook, and nearly everyone else
Someone writes to you
Their provider hands the letter to yours.
It lands in their datacenter, and stays
Your mail's permanent home is a building you will never enter,
under rules you didn't write. It is indexed, profiled, retained on their
schedule, and answerable to whoever can compel them.
Your devices get a window
Phone, laptop, browser: each one visits the mail.
None of them holds it.
The account is the leash
Lose the account (locked out, banned, or a policy change)
and twenty years of correspondence goes with it. You never had a copy.
You had permission.
How Liir mail works
the Personal tier · custody measured in minutes
Someone writes to you
Their provider offers the letter to Liir's sorting office, which asks the house before accepting it: a stranger at your true name is held as a knock or turned away, and a door admits only the company it was made for.
Sealed on arrival · to YOUR key
The moment it lands, the letter is encrypted to the public key
you published when you claimed your name. From this second on,
we are holding a package we cannot open.
Your system collects it
Your devices fetch the sealed letter and open it with keys
only you hold.
We delete our copy
The sorting office keeps nothing. Custody has fully
transferred: the letter now exists only where you are.
Your mail lives in YOUR database
Mirrored across your devices, backed up as a sealed brick
only your key opens, configured however you like. Nobody can take it,
scan it, or lose it for you.
Someone writes to you
Their provider offers the letter to Liir's sorting office, which asks the house before accepting it: a stranger at your true name is held as a knock or turned away, and a door admits only the company it was made for.
It rests on our shelf, encrypted, in our custody
We keep it so you don't have to run anything. It sits
encrypted on our hardware with a key we hold, so we can technically
read it: never mined, never profiled.
Access is limited to operating and securing the service, responding to
your request, investigating credible abuse reports, or complying with
valid legal process. A letter you vault leaves this shelf for keys only
you hold.
Every device is a secure connection
Phone, laptop, webmail: same mailbox everywhere,
instantly, with your marks and your dial riding along.
Leave whenever you like
Climb down to Personal or Sovereign any time: same
address, and your mail walks out with you. The shelf is a service,
not a cage.
Who can write to you
Your true name, yourname@liir.net, keeps a dial. Vault admits
nothing from outside. Liir admits other Liirs. Ask, where every
new Liir starts, holds a stranger’s first letter as a knock until you
open the door or refuse them for good. Public is ordinary mail.
For companies you mint a door: an address of three chance words and
five digits, made for one company and bound to it by its first letter.
Their mail lands in your inbox wearing the door’s name; your replies
leave through the door; anyone else who tries it is told no door
carries that name. Close the door and the company is out of your
life in one click.
The custody clock
The whole difference in one measurement: how long we hold your
mail. Traditional providers answer forever. Liir answers:
minutes · never · or encrypted, until you say otherwise.
the default
Personal · per device
free · this is what Liir Mail is
Your devices collect the mail and our copy is deleted: it lives
where you are, in your own database, mirrored between your devices.
Sealing-on-arrival (encrypted to your key even in transit through us)
is arriving.
letter → your devices collect → we delete
custody: minutes · destination: only where you are
working today · setup required
Sovereign · your Liir owns it
your hardware, our rail
A box you run collects for all your devices and holds the archive.
Your outbound rides liir.net's reputation, your address never changes.
The founder runs Liir itself this way; this page came off that box.
letter → your box → your devices · outbound via our rail
custody: never ours · the kit: ships with your invitation
live now
Hosted · we host
$1.99/mo · Liir Cloud
Zero setup: your mailbox rests encrypted on our shelf, in our custody, every device
a secure connection. One subscription covers the shelf and the Vault, where a
letter you choose to vault is sealed with keys we never hold:
never mined, never profiled, and you can climb down any time.
letter → liir's shelf (encrypted) → your devices
custody: ours, encrypted · exit: any time, mail walks with you
Same address either way, yourname@liir.net, and you can climb down the
ladder any time without changing it. Try doing that with an inbox you rent.