Mail server software
Dovecot privacy rating
IMAP and POP3 server for Linux and Unix that stores and serves mailboxes, with support for Sieve filtering through Pigeonhole. The Community Edition is open source.
Summary
Dovecot scores 90 out of 100 (grade A) on the mail server software criteria. It meets 3 of 4 criteria: open source, no trackers or telemetry and no ads or data sales. It partly meets independent audit. It is based in Finland: Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes; EU member (GDPR).
Score 90 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Yes
Open source Weight 3 of 3
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
LGPL-2.1 and MIT.
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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 telemetry or analytics in the source code.
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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?
Funded by the commercial Dovecot Pro edition sold by Open-Xchange. No ads.
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Partial
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
Code audit by Cure53, older than three years.