What is Mailfence about? Mailfence is not just a secure and private email service that values email privacy. It is also an extremely rich platform in terms of features. In this post, we’ll compare Mailfence with some other mainstream privacy-conscious email service providers. We will also highlight some of the features that make Mailfence unique.
Contrary to any other web-based secure and private email service, Mailfence does not confine users in an own ‘digital island’. We provide users absolute freedom to communicate securely with anyone. Both with other Mailfence users or with any other (OpenPGP complaint) email service. But there are many other advantages in using Mailfence as you can see in the table below.
We believe that an email platform should be much more than just email. Users are expecting a complete email-suite comprising calendar, groups, secure document management, contacts, chat and polls.
Email: Privacy and security
| Feature | Other privacy-conscious webmails | Mailfence |
| End-to-end encryption (OpenPGP, Password) |  | |
| Digital signatures |  | |
| Full PGP inter-operability with other solutions | | |
| Multiple OpenPGP keypair support for same UID/email-address | | |
| Multiple OpenPGP keypair support for every UID/email-address |  | |
| Integrated keystore | | |
| PGP key server: Public key publish & status update | | |
| PGP key management (modify, revoke, delete…) | | |
| Full reversibility & Key revocation | | |
| Service enable/disable and specific password for SMTP/IMAP/POP/ActiveSync/xDAV | | |
Email: Usage
| Feature | Other privacy-conscious webmails | Mailfence |
| Web-interface: Embedded IMAP & POP client | | |
| IMAP(S)/POP(S) support | | |
| ActiveSync Exchange support | | |
| High priority/Read receipt | | |
| Tags/Categories | | |
| Alias & Plus addressing | | |
| Filters (for incoming emails) | | |
| Whitelist | | |
| Message footer signatures | | |
| Add own domain | | |
Calendars, Contacts and Documents
| Feature | Other privacy-conscious webmails | Mailfence |
| Contacts, Calendar and Documents | | |
| CalDAV, CardDAV & WebDAV support | | |
| Web-interface: Embedded WebDAV client | | |
| Calendar pols | | |
Collaborative suite and others
| Feature | Other privacy-conscious webmails | Mailfence |
| Groups | | |
| Group (shared) mailbox | | |
| Groups calendar | | |
| Groups documents | | |
| Groups contacts | | |
| Groups member instant messaging | | |
| Data import/export | | |
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