Major internet outage: 3.5 percent of internet traffic down
A major Internet Service Provider suffered a technical outage on Sunday (30/08/2020). This had a ripple effect and created an internet outage, which impacted sites such as Amazon, Ebay, Twitter, Microsoft Xbox Live, Cloudfare, Reddit, EA, Blizzard, Steam, among many others. What happened? Yesterday, at around 10:00 UTC, a significant number of Border Gateway Protocol […]
EU-US Data privacy shield invalidated: What it means for you
On July 16th, 2020, the European Commission (EC) invalidated the data privacy shield (DPS). The DPS was a framework that allowed European data transfers to the US. The data privacy shield was meant to have additional privacy protection and to have limited US surveillance. Moreover, a Data protection Ombudsman was assigned to make sure that […]
Responsive web app: Beta Release
It is our pleasure to announce the Beta Release of our brand new responsive mobile app. You are hereby invited to test our new Mailfence responsive interface. Update: The Mailfence mobile app just launched!!! This release takes place after eons of hard work ?, blood ?, sweat ?, and love ?, and is a major […]
Call to include interoperability provisions as part of the Digital Services Act
We have gathered once more, Mailfence and several other providers in the industry to request from the European Commission to include interoperability provisions in the Digital services Act. Europe was founded on values such as democracy, freedom, and fairness it is imperative that it continues to support these values and builds upon them. This is […]
Mailfence Release Notes June 2020
We’re happy to present the Mailfence Release Notes June 2020 with several improvements, and fixes. Improvements in Release Notes June 2020 Messages: IMAP Server: Fetching messages bug is now fixed (along with other improvements). IMAP Server: Draft saving process to avoid duplicates is now improved. IMAP Server: Issue with quotes in folder name is now […]
Announcement: Mailfence will stop support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 starting June 2nd, 2020
TLS is a protocol that encrypts traffic between a client program and the server. It also ensures that the software client is talking to the right server. Protocols are continuously being improved through the release of new versions mostly because vulnerabilities are being found in the old ones. Those vulnerabilities can result in TLS being […]
Mailfence email servers blocked in Russia
Mailfence SMTP servers are gradually being blocked by Russian based email services. As a result, sending emails to Russian based services is restricted and successful delivery is not guaranteed anymore. Some weeks ago, we received an official request to Submit a Notice of Commencement of Collaboration with Roskomnadzor’s (the Federal Supervision Agency for Communications, Information […]
Mailfence Release Notes February 2020
We’re happy to present the Mailfence Release Notes February 2020 with several new features, improvements, and fixes. New Features Service specific passwords can now be generated for Outgoing SMTP, POP, IMAP, ActiveSync, xDAV (WebDAV, CalDAV, CardDAV) and Instant messaging (Group members) in third-party software. Specific services can now be enabled/disabled at will for Outgoing SMTP, […]
Mailfence launches its affiliate program
We are thrilled to announce the Mailfence Affiliate Program. Mailfence strongly believes in privacy and has been fighting for it for many years. Today, Mailfence is taking the next big step in its on-going fight for privacy by announcing its affiliation program. An affiliation program meant for greatness To begin with, the Mailfence affiliate program […]
Mailfence Release Notes December 2019
We’re happy to present the Mailfence Release Notes December 2019 with several new features, improvements, and fixes. New Features Improvements in Release Notes Dec 2019 Extra notes Version for Release Notes Dec 2019 Check our previous Release Notes and feel free to report any found bugs/queries/suggestions to support (at) mailfence.com. Follow us on twitter/reddit and keep yourself posted at all […]