Any thoughts about Mailfence as an email provider? I couldn’t find anything about it in the Github Discussions so I was wondering if this was rejected for some reason or just nobody has been aware of it? I don’t have any experience with it myself but it claims to offer easy to use PGP-based end-to-end encrypted email similar to Protonmail and Mailbox.org
This used to be listed, but was removed due to a lack of encryption at rest
I sent them another email asking them on 9th March 2022 and they said that it still was not ready yet.
This means unless an email is encrypted by the sender with PGP prior to you receiving it, it won’t be encrypted on receipt. That is the best way, but as a fallback we like to see that all email is encrypted at rest.
Thanks, very interesting. Their website makes you think they encrypt everything.
As I’ve checked on their website, Mailfence provides encryption at rest.
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Appears so, this is great news. It looks like they’re not open source currently and lack an audit so I think we’ll still wait and see for now.
I couldn’t find anything about encryption at rest on the page linked in the post above. There is however some info on their blog:-
Encryption at Rest: What is It, and How Mailfence Implemented It