Create your account
Sign up with an email and password, or connect a Sui wallet.
There are two ways to sign up. Both give you a working MailGate inbox.
Option A — Email and password (custodial)
The familiar path. Enter an email address and a password and you're in.
With this option your account keys are managed for you inside the secure enclave (this is called a custodial account). You don't have to manage a wallet or a seed phrase. It works exactly like signing up for any web app.
Best if: you just want email and don't want to think about wallets.
Option B — Connect a Sui wallet (self-custody)
If you have a Sui wallet, you can connect it instead. Your account is then self-custody: the wallet you control is the owner of the account.
Best if: you already use a Sui wallet and want to hold the keys to your account yourself from day one.
You can't upgrade from custodial to self-custody yet. If you sign up with email/password, you'll stay custodial for now — the in-app upgrade flow isn't built. If you want self-custody, sign up with a wallet from the start. See Exporting your keys.
Email/password and Sui wallet are currently the only sign-up methods. There is no "Sign in with Google" option.
What happens right after sign-up
Creating your account does a bit of one-time setup behind the scenes — it has to be registered on-chain, mirrored, and bound to your encryption identity.
Your first inbox load can take around 30 seconds. This is normal one-time provisioning, not a bug. The very first email you receive can also take ~30 seconds end-to-end. After that, everything is fast.
You may also need to refresh the page once after sign-up before the inbox fully populates the first time.