Disroot vs Mailfence Comparison
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| Rating | 4.8 | 7.0 |
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| Free tier | Free tierShow detailsHide details1 GB mailbox at no cost, no time limit, no feature gating versus paid storage tiers — the only difference paid tiers add is more space. | Limited free tierShow detailsHide details1 GB total (500 MB email + 500 MB documents), no custom domain, Knowledge Base-only support. |
| Established | 2015 | 1999 |
| Platforms | Not specified | |
| Privacy | ||
| Jurisdiction | NetherlandsShow detailsHide detailsStichting Disroot.org (a Dutch foundation), Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK) number 69988099. Servers are owned and operated in a data center in the Netherlands; the Terms of Service state the platform is subject to Dutch law. Run entirely by volunteers with no venture funding. | BelgiumShow detailsHide detailsContactOffice Group sa, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 47b, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, company number BE 0466.241.584. Gag orders are not legally possible in Belgium — Mailfence's warrant canary states it has never received a US National Security Letter or FISA court order, and could disclose a valid Belgian court order to the affected user. |
| Independent security audit | None on record | None on record |
| Source code | Fully open source | Closed source |
| Zero-access encryption | No | No |
| Intra-provider E2EE | No | No |
| External PGP | Manual import | Native |
| Past data breach | No | No |
| Telemetry | Opt-in | On unless you opt out |
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| Hosting | Cloud | Cloud |
| Custom domain support | Yes | Yes |
| Aliases | Limited | Unlimited |
| Anti-spam approach | Not separately documented as a technical methodology beyond standard server-side mail filtering; the Privacy Statement discloses that email server logs (sender/recipient addresses, connecting IPs) are retained for 48 hours to prevent brute-force attacks and aid debugging, and specifies that message content is not read except for service operation, troubleshooting, or suspected Terms of Service violations. | Incoming and outgoing messages are automatically analysed by anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-abuse checking routines; the provider's own security-analysis documentation states this applies at the transport layer and that OpenPGP-encrypted message bodies are never visible to the server. |
| Bundled services | CloudPadPaste BinChatCalendarContacts | CalendarsDocumentsGroups |

