Email infrastructure for Africa

Email, built for Africa

The email API and business inbox for Tanzania. Receive mail on your domain, send transactional email from your application, and track delivery with clear logs — paid per message in TZS through mobile money. Test in a free sandbox before you spend a shilling.

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5 TZS

to send, on any domain

5 TZS

to receive, on any domain

100

sender IDs per account

2,000 TZS

minimum top-up via mobile money

How it works

Up and running in a few simple steps

Create an account, provision a sender or receiving domain, wire a webhook, and send or receive your first message.

Step 01

Receive inbound email

Point a domain or use an address on mailafrica.online. Real SMTP mail gets parsed into structured JSON — headers, body and attachments — and delivered to your webhook the instant it arrives.

  • Webhooks your backend can trust
  • HMAC-signed payloads and retries
  • Up to 100 sender IDs per account
Inbound email being parsed and delivered as a signed webhook.

Step 02

Send transactional email

Send receipts, alerts, invoices and verification messages from the platform sender or your own verified domain. Create sender IDs and templates, batch recipients, and attach files up to platform limits.

  • DKIM-signed outbound from your own domain
  • Sender IDs and reusable templates
  • Batch recipients in chunks of 50
Outbound transactional email being sent through a verified sending domain.

Step 03

Pay per message, test first

Every message debits a single TZS wallet topped up by mobile money or card. Before going live, test the whole flow in the free sandbox without sending real mail.

  • Pay-as-you-go in Tanzanian shillings
  • Free sandbox captures test mail
  • Full delivery logs and audit export
Wallet balance and per-message billing in Tanzanian shillings.
Pricing

Pay for the email you use

Usage-based pricing in Tanzanian shillings, straight from your wallet. No forced monthly plan or hidden charges.

5 TZS

Send outbound email

/ per recipient, any domain

5 TZS

Receive inbound email

/ per message, any domain

Simple, transparent billing

Example: 1,000 messages received and sent = 5,000 TZS at 5 TZS each — the same rate on the MailAfrica domain or your own verified domain.

  • No forced monthly plan
  • Single TZS wallet for everything
  • Free sandbox for testing
  • Refunded on provider failure

Every message debits your TZS wallet before dispatch and is refunded if the provider fails. New sends pause if your balance runs out — the free sandbox never touches your wallet.

Estimate your monthly bill

messages / month

10,000 messages at 5 TZS = 50,000 TZS per month

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Case studies

Where it works

Fintechs, SACCOs, and agencies use MailAfrica to send and receive the email their products depend on.

Fintech

Verification codes that land in time

A Tanzanian fintech needed OTPs and transaction alerts delivered reliably, with delivery proof its compliance team could audit.

Integration

2 days to first send

Scale

~120k messages / month

Same-brand, DKIM-signed emails from its own domain, with exportable delivery logs for every verification.

OTPs reached users in under a second and we can show delivery proof for every single one. Setup was a morning of work.
Fintech partnerHead of Engineering
SACCO / Coop

Member documents, collected automatically

A SACCO wanted members to submit loans, statements and application documents by email without manual inbox management.

Integration

Weekend setup

Scale

~40k inbound messages / month

Every member email parsed into structured data and pushed to its backend, cutting processing time per request.

Members email us instead of queueing. The documents show up parsed, filed, and ready for the next step.
SACCO partnerOperations Lead
Software agency

One inbox operation across client domains

An agency ran email for multiple client businesses and needed one interface, one wallet, and one set of logs.

Integration

Onboarded in under a week

Scale

~30 client domains

A single dashboard ecosystem where client emails send and receive at the same flat rate, billed in TZS.

We stopped maintaining mail servers for every client. Everything went through MailAfrica's wallet in TZS.
Software agencyFounder

Profile stories we’re maturing with early customers — details will be updated as references are published.

Start sending and receiving email today

Top up your wallet and pay only for the messages and domains you use.

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