Cock.li

What Cock.li is

Cock.li is a public email host offering email accounts and webmail, with IMAP and POP access listed for mail.cock.li. Its services are free, and registration does not require personally identifiable information. New accounts cannot send mail until the user completes a browser proof-of-work challenge that takes a few minutes of CPU time. The service log describes Cock-mail as an open-source, client-side webmail client that connects directly to the IMAP server over websockets; its 0.0.1 alpha release was missing major features, including SMTP. Cock.li was founded in 2013 and lists Android, iOS, and web as platforms. Its privacy policy says it may retain registration details, stored mail, XMPP data, and 48–72 hours of IMAP and SMTP logs. It also says email sent or received is automatically scanned for spam. Account information is encrypted server-side, but mail may travel without encryption if a TLS connection is unavailable or not attempted by the other mail server. Cock.li does not provide password resets, so losing the password means losing control of the account.