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Mailfence is a secure and private email solution providing calendar, chat, documents and advanced user management.
Esc Collective offers commercial support for business switching to Mailfence in form of consulting and integration. We can help set up the Mailfence environment, take care of DNS settings including DKIM and DMARC, and help migrate existing email from your current provider. But maybe most important of all, Esc Collective can help you find the email provider which meets your functional and business requirements.
What makes Mailfence great is that it supports open standards for email synchronisation such as IMAP and SMTP which gives you the freedom to choose your own email client (e.g. Thunderbird). Nevertheless Mailfence does have a great browser app as well as apps for Android and iOS.
Based in Belgium they are fully compliant with GDPR, and the focus of Mailfence has always been on privacy and security. There is no tracking, and even their browser client fully supports email encryption, digital signatures with OpenPGP.
Functionalities include everything a small and medium sized business needs including user management, shared mailboxes, group calendars and so on. However, they have a free plan and Mailfence would still be great for small teams, families and individual users.
Home page: https://mailfence.com/
Do you use Mailfence in your business? Esc Collective offers support in form of consulting and integration.
Calendar functionality enables efficient scheduling and time management for teams and organizations. Essential for European businesses that need to coordinate across different time zones and maintain compliance with local working hour regulations.
Solutions with the Calendar feature: Gmail for business, Tuta Mail, M365 Mail, Proton Mail and Mailfence
Encryption ensures that sensitive information remains secure and protected from unauthorized access. This feature implements protocols to safeguard data while it is being sent over the internet or when it is saved on a server. When an email service or a cloud storage solution provides encryption, this means that only users having access to a digital key can read the data. Encryption is essential for maintaining data privacy and security in today's digital landscape, and it is a hard requirement of the EU GDPR (privacy) regulations.
Solutions with the Encryption feature: Tuta Mail, Proton Mail and Mailfence
Companies which have their headquarters in the European Union fall under jurisdiction of the EU and the member state they are in. They are obliged to follow EU law, EU court orders and of course the law of the particular member state they are in. The EU has one of the strictest privacy regulations. Also many checks and balances are in place which make EU regulations and policies slow to change, but this ensures that extremes can be stopped very effectively.
Solutions with the EU based feature: Tuta Mail, Transip E-mail, Mailfence and Odoo
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. This is a communication protocol used to synchronize email in between a server and one (or multiple) clients such as a laptop or a smartphone. IMAP is an open standard, which means that email services using IMAP support basically any email client you would like to use.
Solutions with the IMAP feature: Gmail for business, M365 Mail, Transip E-mail and Mailfence
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. This is a communication protocol used to send email over the internet. SMTP is an open standard, which means that email services using SMTP support basically any email client you would like to use.
Solutions with the SMTP feature: Gmail for business, M365 Mail, Transip E-mail and Mailfence
Tuta Mail is an email solution focused on security through quantum-safe encryption. Their service includes a calendar and many business grade functionalities.
Proton Mail is an email solution focused on privacy and freedom. Their email solution includes calendar, and Proton also has solutions for documents, VPN and password management.
Transip E-mail is a great solution for those businesses that only want to send email and don't need all the extra's.