Mailfence threat model
We believe that every user has the right to know exactly what threats Mailfence – a secure and private email suite is designed to PROTECT or NOT PROTECT you from. That’s why we’ve composed this generic Mailfence threat model. ‘Mailfence’ will PROTECT YOU against: Eavesdropping on your internet connection – When you are using Mailfence, the connection between your […]
Is SMTP STS a major step towards email security?
The underlying 1980s transport protocol used to send emails: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is ancient and lacks the ability to provide email security. To level-up its security, SMTP STARTTLS was invented in 2002 – but it still turned out to be susceptible to Man-in-the-middle (MITM) and connection downgrades attacks.In order to raise the security bar […]
The Mailfence SSL/TLS Certificate
When accessing any of the Mailfence services, the transmission of data between your device program and our servers in Brussels-Belgium is always encrypted and protected by SSL/TLS – for which each website has a (Public Key) Certificate that is verified by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA). A modern browser should automatically check the validity of the Mailfence […]
10GB mail storage now for Entry Plan
10GB mail storage instead of 6GB We are happy to announce that the mail storage for the Entry plan of Mailfence secure and private email suite is now 10GB instead of 6GB. Upgrade your free account now for increased storage and a host of other features at a price of only 3,50€ per month. Learn more […]
Transparency Report and Warrant Canary
In light of our attachment to online privacy – we would like to present our Transparency report and Warrant canary to inform you about legal requests for information of our users. Transparency Report Between the 1st of January 2024 and 30th of June 2024, Mailfence has: Last updated: July 2024 (this information will be updated […]
Mailfence Release Notes April 2016
In order to offer the best of our services, we believe on updating. So, after the BETA launch of our end-to-end encryption and digital signing service, we are happy to announce our new Mailfence Release Notes. New Features The passphrase can now optionally be stored for a given duration Key-pair expiration date can now be set or […]
BETA launch of a pure end-to-end encrypted email solution that gives you full control
At Mailfence – a secure and private email suite, we are very pleased to announce the BETA launch of our end-to-end encrypted mail solution which is based on OpenPGP. Our encryption solution is the result of more than two years work by our dedicated team. Why did we develop this service? At ContactOffice we have always […]
11 tips on how to avoid social engineering schemes
Following are several tips on how to avoid social engineering schemes. These steps won’t prevent your account from getting compromised if a service provider falls for a social engineering hack and hands your account over to the attacker. But they may at least minimize the possible damage and also give you more peace of mind that […]
Mailfence now implements SPF (Sender Policy Framework)
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a simple email-validation system designed to detect email spoofing by providing a mechanism to allow receiving mail exchangers to check that incoming mail from a domain comes from a host authorized by that domain’s administrators.The list of authorized sending hosts for a domain is published in the Domain Name System […]
How to Send Encrypted Emails: the old way and the Mailfence way
In today’s electronic world, sending information in emails forms the backbone of most businesses’ day-to-day activities. Emails may contain sensitive data such as company records, business plans and other private data. Storing your information in email accounts makes you very vulnerable to online criminals. With a computer or even a smartphone and an internet connection, […]