Email providers
Secria privacy rating
Email service from Secria, Inc. in the United States, with mail stored in Germany. Mail between Secria users is end-to-end encrypted with a hybrid post-quantum key exchange. Free and paid plans, with no ads.
Summary
Secria scores 46 out of 100 (grade D) on the email providers criteria. It meets 6 of 21 criteria: no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, TLS configuration, security headers, encrypted mailbox storage and custom domains. It partly meets transparency report, modern web standards, end-to-end encryption, sign up without personal data, email security standards and mail transport security. It does not meet open source, independent audit, open protocols, IMAP support, POP3 support, SMTP submission, Sender Rewriting Scheme and ARC sealing. Still needing evidence: tells users about requests. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+, Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade A+, Internet.nl website score 86% and Internet.nl email score 88%.
Score 46 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
-
No
Open source Weight 3 of 3
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
Closed source. No source code is published.
-
Yes
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
No third-party analytics, advertising cookies or tracking pixels on the website. The mail whitepaper states the apps contain no analytics or telemetry.
-
Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by paid plans. No ads and no sale of user data.
-
No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
-
Partial
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
The privacy policy describes how legal requests are handled, and the VPN whitepaper mentions a signed warrant canary. No request counts are published.
-
Unknown
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
Needs evidence. Add it
-
Partial
End-to-end encryption Weight 3 of 3
Can mail be end-to-end encrypted so that the provider cannot read message contents?
Mail between Secria users is end-to-end encrypted by default. Mail to other providers is sent over TLS, with no documented end-to-end option.
-
Yes
Encrypted mailbox storage Weight 3 of 3
Is stored mail encrypted with a key the provider does not hold?
Stored mail, including mail from other providers, is encrypted to the user's public keys. Private keys are encrypted with a key derived from the password on the device.
-
No
Open protocols Weight 2 of 3
Can any standard app connect over IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV or CardDAV, without extra software?
No IMAP, POP3 or SMTP access is documented. Mail is used in Secria's own web and mobile apps.
-
Yes
Custom domains Weight 1 of 3
Can mail be sent and received with your own domain?
Three custom domains on Mail Plus and ten on Pro. Not on the free plan.
-
Partial
Sign up without personal data Weight 2 of 3
Can an account be created without a phone number or another email address?
Sign-up asks for a name, an address and a password, with no phone number. The sign-up app can ask some new accounts for a verified recovery email to stop spam.
-
No
Sender Rewriting Scheme Weight 1 of 3
Is the envelope sender rewritten with SRS when mail is forwarded, so forwarded mail keeps passing SPF?
No published documentation on SRS for forwarded mail.
-
No
ARC sealing Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider validate and add ARC (RFC 8617) signatures, so authentication results survive forwarding?
No published documentation on ARC signing or validation.
Automated tests
-
Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A+
-
Yes
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A+ (115/100+)
-
Partial
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Score 86%
-
Partial
Email security standards Weight 2 of 3
Does the mail domain score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl email test?
Score 88%
-
No
IMAP support Weight 2 of 3
Does the IMAP server accept connections over implicit TLS on port 993 and advertise IMAP4rev1 or IMAP4rev2 with IDLE push?
Not offered.
-
No
POP3 support Weight 1 of 3
Does the POP3 server accept connections over implicit TLS on port 995 and answer CAPA with UIDL?
Not offered.
-
No
SMTP submission Weight 2 of 3
Does mail submission work over implicit TLS on port 465 with SMTPUTF8, 8BITMIME, PIPELINING and AUTH?
Not offered.
-
Partial
Mail transport security Weight 3 of 3
Does the mail domain enforce encrypted, authenticated delivery with MTA-STS, DANE, DNSSEC, TLS-RPT and an enforced DMARC policy?
Passes: SPF, DMARC reject, MTA-STS enforce, TLS-RPT, DNSSEC. Missing: DANE none.
Email standards
- Yes: Mail serversMXmx1.secria.me
- Yes: RFC 7208 sender policySPFpublished
- Yes: RFC 7489. Quarantine or reject counts as enforcedDMARCp=reject
- Yes: RFC 8461 strict transport securityMTA-STSenforce
- Yes: RFC 8460 TLS failure reportsTLS-RPTpublished
- Yes: RFC 4033 signed DNSDNSSECsigned and validated
- No: RFC 7672 TLSA records on MX hostsDANEnone
- No: Brand logo record (not scored)BIMInone
- No: RFC 6186 and RFC 8314 service records (not scored)SRVnone
IMAP
Not offered.
POP3
Not offered.
SMTP submission
Not offered.
Capabilities are what each server advertises before login. How these tests work