emailKid-safe email
An email address for your kid, cleaned before anyone reads it.
When you add an address on email59, choose Kid-safe instead of Normal. Every email that reaches that address goes through a filter on its way in: bad language is taken out, text that isn't in English is taken out, and attachments wait until they've been checked. Your kid signs in to a page with only that mailbox, and you read the same mail in yours.
An option for each address, with its own monthly subscription (pricing). Normal addresses get their mail as it was sent.
The four rules
1. Bad language is removed
Swear words, sexual words and explicit wording are replaced with [removed], in the subject and the body. Spelled with numbers or symbols (sh1t, f*ck) or with spaces between the letters, they still go. Sexual emoji go too. An automated AI check then reads the email: a passage that isn't for a child is removed, and an email that isn't for a child at all is kept from the kid's page (you still see it).
2. Only English stays
A sentence in another language, or in another alphabet, becomes [removed: not English]. Names, numbers, addresses and links stay.
3. Attachments are checked first
A file arrives a little after its email: until it has been checked it shows "being checked" and can't be opened. A clean file is then released. A file that can't be read (password-protected, a zip, a program, too big) or isn't clean is deleted.
4. A note says what went
When anything was taken out, a short line at the top of the email says how much, and every deleted file is named at the end: "Removed: report.zip (could not be read)".
What it looks like
An email that arrived with two swear words and a French paragraph opens like this:
The original is not kept: the cleaned copy is the only one in the mailbox.
Two people read it: your kid and you
Your kid: one mailbox, nothing else
You set a password for the address. Your kid signs in at email59.com/kid.html and sees only that mailbox: Inbox, Sent and Trash, reading, writing and replying. No plans, payments, settings or other addresses.
You: the same mail in your mailbox
The address stays in your email59 account, next to your other addresses. You read everything it gets, including an email that was kept from the kid's page, and you can change or remove the kid's password any time.
What your kid sends is checked too
An email written from a kid-safe address with bad language, sexual content or text not in English is refused and not sent.
Its own subscription
Each kid-safe address has its own monthly subscription, apart from any other email59 plan, and opens once the first payment goes through. If you cancel or a payment fails, the address stays kid-safe and you still get its mail; only the kid's sign-in pauses until it's paid again.
Accounts you add in the app are cleaned the same way
If you add another mailbox in the email59 app (an IMAP or POP account), mail from that account is read, filtered and, where needed, deleted by email59's AI, the same as mail to a kid-safe address. Don't add an account you don't want processed.
Good to know
- The filter reads words, not meaning. It can take out a name that looks like a swear word, or a short quote in another language inside an English sentence.
- Only kid-safe addresses are filtered. A normal address gets its mail as it was sent, and you can open a normal and a kid-safe address in the same account.
- Mail that was already in a mailbox before it became kid-safe keeps its old text.
- Mail to a kid-safe address and its files are read by email59's checker: text by the word filter and an AI check, pictures, PDFs and documents by an AI model. Reading mail and files this way is part of the service (see the terms and privacy policy).