Email provider comparison
Email providers compared: what matters for businesses.
A star rating helps little with business email. Five questions decide. After that come the individual comparisons, one page per provider.
Criteria
Five questions for any email provider.
In this order they separate the offers fastest.
- 1
Bundle or mailbox?
Many offers are bundles with office apps, file storage or web hosting. If you only need email, compare the price per mailbox.
- 2
Where are the mailboxes?
Location of the data centres, seat of the contracting party and a data processing agreement with named subprocessors.
- 3
Which clients connect?
Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird and smartphones: directly via IMAP, ActiveSync, CalDAV and CardDAV, or only through the provider's own apps.
- 4
What does administration include?
Shared mailboxes, distribution lists, rooms, creating many mailboxes at once, blocking access and message tracing.
- 5
How is archiving handled?
An archive mailbox takes load off the inbox. Tamper-proof archiving meets the retention obligation. The two are not the same.
Individual comparisons
Conbool Mail next to fourteen offers.
Conbool Mail in one sentence.
Business mailboxes with webmail, calendar, contacts and ActiveSync, run in Germany or in your own data centre, for €1.29, €2.99 or €5.49 per mailbox per month, net.
Questions about the email provider comparison
Which email provider is best for businesses?
That depends on whether you need a bundle or just the mailbox, where the data should be and which clients your team uses. The five criteria above lead to the answer.
What matters in an email hosting comparison?
The price per mailbox rather than per bundle, the location, the supported clients, administration and archiving.
Is this comparison neutral?
No, it comes from Conbool and places Conbool Mail next to other offers. Details on the other providers are based on their public information, with the date stated on each page.
What does Conbool Mail cost?
Per mailbox per month €1.29 for Kiosk, €2.99 for Plan 1 and €5.49 for Plan 2, net.
Run the comparison with your numbers.
We put your current setup next to Conbool Mail and work through it with you.