Mailbox.org vs Posteo Comparison
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| Rating | 6.8 | 6.1 |
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| Free tier | Paid only | Paid only |
| Established | 2014 | 2009 |
| Platforms | Not specified | Not specified |
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| Jurisdiction | GermanyShow detailsHide detailsHeinlein Hosting GmbH, Schwedter Strasse 8/9A, 10119 Berlin. Registered at the District Court of Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRB 220010 B. Managing director Peer Heinlein, also CEO of the parent Heinlein Group, founded 1989. | GermanyShow detailsHide detailsPosteo e.K. (a registered sole proprietorship), Methfesselstr. 38, 10965 Berlin. Registered at the Handelsregister Berlin-Charlottenburg, HRA 47592 B. Founded and owned by Patrik and Sabrina Löhr, self-financed with no external investors or debt. |
| Independent security audit | None on record | Cure53 2017Show audit detailsHide audit detailsPosteo web application, including Calendar and Notes (a separate, earlier Cure53 test in April 2015 covered Crypto Mail Storage specifically) |
| Source code | Partly open source | Partly open source |
| Zero-access encryption | No | Yes |
| Intra-provider E2EE | No | No |
| External PGP | Native | Native |
| Past data breach | No | No |
| Telemetry | On unless you opt out | No telemetry |
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| Hosting | Cloud | Cloud |
| Custom domain support | Yes | No |
| Aliases | Limited | Limited |
| Anti-spam approach | Multi-stage malware and spam scanning at mail transport time, before any optional PGP encryption is applied, combined with SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNSSEC, DANE and MTA-STS at the protocol level; no content-scanning of already-encrypted mailbox data is described. | Described by Posteo only as a 'highly efficient spam and virus filter' — no further technical methodology is publicly documented. |
| Bundled services | CalendarDriveOfficeMeet | CalendarAddress BookNotes |

