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Tuta Mail is an email solution focused on security through quantum-safe encryption. Their service includes a calendar and many business grade functionalities.
Esc Collective offers commercial support for business switching to Tuta Mail in form of consulting and integration. We can help set up the Tuta Mail 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.
Tuta is based in Germany, and therefore ensures full GDPR compliance for both their private and business customers. They do not support IMAP, POP or other open email retrieval protocols so you cannot use email clients such as Thunderbird or Outlook. Tuta offers their own mail clients in the browser or installed on Android, iOS, Linux, Windows and MacOS.
What makes Tuta Mail great is the company's focus on security through encryption, in a simple to use interface. Their email service is developed to use end-to-end encryption by default (with a limitation, see below). This ensures that even if Tuta is ever obliged to disclose user data this is only limited to metadata.
Tuta goes very far in encrypting data stored on their servers and for emails sent in between mailboxes hosted on Tuta Mail - everything is encrypted except for email addresses and dates. However, because encryption is not performed with an open standard such as OpenPGP, any email traffic outside of the Tuta Mail network is only encrypted when it arrives in the network and not during transfer.
Tuta Mail will work for most businesses. They offer multi-user support, as well as specific functionalities such as shared mailboxes.
Home page: https://tuta.com/
Do you use Tuta Mail 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
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.
Mailfence is a secure and private email solution providing calendar, chat, documents and advanced user management.