sedamo is a way to exchange postal addresses (mailing addresses) easily using a 8-letters code, the international address code.

The receiver (once) looks-up the address code of her/his (destination) address.

This address code is forwarded to the sender.

The sender uses the address code to print out the (foreign) address in an international format (as recommended by the Universal Postal Union).

Because the recipient´s address is written in the native language of the destination country, the shipment is delivered as quickly as possible.

Using eMail2address.com, you can link your e-mail address with your mailing address (physical address).

The sender, who wants to send a letter or a parcel to you, only needs your e-mail address and can print out your address without any problems, even if it written in a foreign script.

This indicates the reliability of the address as a postal delivery address:

• green = The address has been verified. Letters to this address should arrive without problems.
• yellow = The address has been partially verified and corresponds to other addresses and is therefore most likely correct. Letters to this address should arrive without problems.
• red = The address is not a valid postal address. However, it may be an address you can visit, e.g. a monument, a bus stop.
• yellow flashing: The address is still being checked. Parts of the address may still change. If you have been given the address code for this delivery address, you can assume that items will arrive there.

For your convenience, when you look-up the sedamo address code, our system tries to fill-in the address based on your location. You can overwrite the address if you want to look-up the sedamo address code of a different address.

To use sedamo and eMail2​address.com via http://sedamo.info/ and http://www.email2address.com/ is for free. We rely on and kindly ask for your financial support, so, please, support sedamo

No! We even do not store the e-mail addresses of participants of eMail2​address​.com, but only a digital hash of the e-mail address. The e-mail address cannot be recovered from a digital hash (see Wikipedia: Cryptographic hash function).

Yes! Use the address in Latin script that appears on the first page when you “Get the address” of a given sedamo code. Use this address to fill-in the online form.

In addition, print out the address in the country´s language on a label (use “Print envelope”) and stick this address on the parcel as well. The postman in the destination country will be grateful!

When registering your e-mail address for eMail2address, you will receive an automated e-mail sent from robot@sedamo.info. Some “clever” providers conclude that an automated e-mail must be “Spam” and delete this e-mail for you. Explicitly, our message is not moved to the Spam folder, but deleted! To avoid that, add robot@sedamo.info to the list of permitted senders; here the instructions of some providers:

• Instructions for many providers (English) https://www.whitelist.guide/
• Apple (English) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253192264
• GMX (German) https://hilfe.gmx.net/email/spam-und-viren/whitelist-verwalten.html
• Hostpoint.ch (German) https://support.hostpoint.ch/de/technisches/e-mail/allgemeines-zu-e-mail/funktion-und-konfiguration-des-spamfilters#hp-section2-4
• Ionos (German) https://www.ionos.de/hilfe/e-mail/webmail-nutzen/e-mails-bestimmter-adressen-in-webmail-von-11-ionos-immer-erlauben/
• Microsoft (English) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/add-recipients-of-my-email-messages-to-the-safe-senders-list-be1baea0-beab-4a30-b968-9004332336ce
• Microsoft (German) https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/office/hinzuf%C3%BCgen-von-e-mail-empf%C3%A4ngern-zur-liste-sicherer-absender-be1baea0-beab-4a30-b968-9004332336ce
• Outlook (English) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/safe-senders-in-outlook-com-470d4ee6-e3b6-402b-8cd9-a6f00eda7339
• T-Online (German) https://www.telekom-profis.de/hilfe/whitelisting.html
• Web.de (German) https://hilfe.web.de/email/spam-und-viren/whitelist-verwalten.html

Enter your address and e-mail at http://sedamo.info once again (or, if you know your sedamo address code, here only code and e-mail). You will receive a new confirmation e-mail.

Select the country to which the island belongs. For the French Overseas Territories, please select France, and then in the list of provinces, select the island. For Madeira, select Portugal. Etc.

In short:

1. Open http://sedamo.info and enter the address code -or- open http://www.email2address.com/ and enter the e-mail address.
2. Enter the Turing number displayed.
3. Tap on “Get the address” / “sedamo!”
4. On the next screen, tap on the blue geo coordinates.

The navigation software of your smartphone will start and guide you to the desired address. Here is a detailed description on how to search and share places with sedamo.

Yes, you can! Please follow these instructions.

No, this will fail! Ask a local colleague to enter the address at http://sedamo.info/ and write down the sedamo address code for you. Then open the page for direct registration at eMail2​address​.com, https://sedamo.info/direct. Enter the sedamo address code (8 letters), your e-mail address and (at least) your name. The name should exactly match the spelling in the passport to avoid difficulties with customs. Example:
In your passport:
Family name: Ewing
First name: John
Middle name: Ross
Entry at eMail2​address​.com: John Ross Ewing
(not J.R., not Mr John Ross Ewing, not Doctor John R. Ewing)

There are several possibilities here:

• You have (perhaps a long time ago) set your e-mail address to “Robinson me”. All personal data have been deleted and the hash of the e-mail address has been tagged as invalid.
• Your provider has asked us not to send messages to e-mail addresses belonging to them. We respect this, of course.
• Your provider is not offering mailboxes on a permanent basis.
• Your provider has rejected our e-mails as “Spam” and has not responded to our requests. Further sending of e-mails is not useful and only causes unnecessary traffic.

Yes, you can! Please submit a file for e-mail mass registration following these instructions.

We do not store e-mail addresses, but only the hash values. The quick selection list is manually maintained. Please tell us why we should add your e-mail address to that list. If you give us a good reason, we´re happy to do so.

sedamo is a perfect fit for your problem!

1. Go to the sedamo address input.
2. Select country, province, city.
3. Choose “other” as type of address
4. Enter all address details as good as you can; e.g., use a descriptive way such as, “delivery road near Example Street”
5. In the address verification, choose the last entry (“None of the addresses above”).
6. Note down the new sedamo address code.
7. Go to the site where your drivers should arrive. Take your smartphone with you! Once there, set the geo coordinates as described here.

The new coordinates are usually available after 24 hours at the latest. To speed up the process, you can also send a short note to the sedamo team. Important: If the geo coordinates are not set within a week, the generated address code could become invalid. The sedamo code will be displayed with a “red light” when retrieved because the address is not a valid postal address.

Your drivers can call up the sedamo page in their language, enter the sedamo address code and tap on the blue coordinates on the first page to start navigation to the stored coordinates.

sedamo is a portmanteau word formed from service d’adresse mondial.

service d’adresse mondial is French for “world-wide address service”. French (not English) is the traditional international language of the Post Services.

Wherever a “normal” (that is, postal) address is used, the sedamo address code can be used.

It helps to address a postal item (letter, parcel) faster, error-free, and in the correct formatting.

The sedamo address code is used in a wide variety of applications, such as logistics, database applications (e.g. cleaning address duplicates), online shops (automatic retrieval of the delivery address via the e-mail address), international hotels (giving directions to the guests), emergency services (fast and precise localisation)…

sedamo address codes can added where addresses are given: on business cards, on stationary, in advertising brochures, in travel guides, in the footer of e-mails, etc.

Yes, you can. (Actually, the service d’adresse mondial has been developed for this purpose.)

No application is necessary to use a sedamo address code. Simply look up your address code and share it with the world.

No. The operation of sedamo is covered by donations.

Yes, because it generates costs. (And we do not sell advertisement.) We offer Pay-Per-Use, prepaid, because this is the most even-handed way. This does not apply for minor use: private users, small commercial use.

No. Also, no licensing contract is required for its use.

Yes. And they are easy to use: Simply print the 8 letters, preferably formatted as AA-BB-CC-DD. No barcodes, no special fonts required.

Use a QR code generator (e.g. https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/) and these parameters:

1. Type of QR code: URL
2. Error correction: (as you wish, e.g. “medium”)
3. URL: http://www.email2address.com/example%40sedamo.info
   Replace example%40sedamo.info with your e-mail address. Replace the @ character with %40, the URL-encoded form of @.

Yes. A ‘8 char BINARY LATIN’ field is enough to store all addresses of the world in all languages. Using an UNIQUE index, you can easily avoid address doublets.

Yes.

No. The sedamo address code is not an abbrv. (abbreviation )!

Good to know: Places sometimes change names (even entire countries: recently, “Macedonia” has been renamed to “North Macedonia”), but sedamo address codes stay the same. And always result in the correct(ed) (that means: maybe changed) address.

Yes: The sedamo address codes are for peaceful use only. Please see “Imprint, Legal Note and Privacy Policy” on http://sedamo.info/