Email sending services
Postal privacy rating
Open-source mail delivery platform for running your own SMTP relay and email API, with web-based management, webhooks and click and open tracking.
Summary
Postal is not graded yet: 44% of its criteria have evidence, and 60% is needed. It meets 4 of 8 criteria: open source, no ads or data sales, open and click tracking off by default and EU data location. Still needing evidence: no trackers or telemetry, independent audit, message content deleted after delivery and encrypted delivery can be enforced.
Not graded yet: 44% of criteria have evidence, 60% needed. How scoring works
Criteria
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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?
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Free open source software with no ads.
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Unknown
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
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Unknown
Message content deleted after delivery Weight 3 of 3
Is the content of sent mail deleted once it has been delivered?
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Yes
Open and click tracking off by default Weight 2 of 3
Are open tracking pixels and click tracking links off unless the sender turns them on?
Tracking only works after a tracking domain is added to a mail server.
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Unknown
Encrypted delivery can be enforced Weight 2 of 3
Can outbound mail be kept from being delivered without TLS?
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Yes
EU data location Weight 1 of 3
Can message content and delivery logs be processed and stored only in the European Union?
Self-hosted, so message data stays on servers the operator chooses.