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How is it any better than ProtonMail? [0]

Mailbox.org runs http://open-xchange.com/, so besides email you also get a calendar and (rudimentary but functional) online word processor and spreadsheet, with team collaboration. You can try a demo of the software on the Open-Xchange site.

I've also been a happy customer for about a year now.

Funny they call themselves open exchange with the tag line 'stay open' and they are not actually open source.

edit: maybe they are? http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=SourceCodeAccess Why is there no link on main website?

Definitely open source, although no public code development process (~GitHub) from what I gathered. Java backend, BackboneJS frontend.

You can't use their product commercially (Ie. As a company), because their UI is not open source - only their API is.

Also, the document editing is commercial license with 30-day trial license only.

Their commercial license start at 5000€

Does ProtonMail have a feature similar to the "full inbox encryption" [1] mailbox has? Also, there are some nice features in mailbox, like only allowing to send email to other servers which support encryption [2].

I'm genuinely curious if ProtonMail has similar functionality on offer, especially since it appears to be free.

[1] https://support-en.mailbox.org/knowledge-base/article/the-en...

[2] https://mailbox.org/en/ensuring-emails-are-sent-securely/

edit: links

Info on what ProtonMail encrypts is here: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/what-is-encryp...

TL;DR: It encrypts just about everything in storage but "Subject lines and recipient/sender email addresses are encrypted, but not end-to-end encrypted.", which tells me they might have access to these things.

I've been using Protonmail for a year now, and I'm very happy with it. I have several domains on it. The mobile apps are decent (I have iOS and Android), and the web app is fine. It's not perfect, but given their limited resources compared to Google I'm quite impressed.

Better usability since you can have imap. Additionally card-dav, cal-dav.

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