EMX is in beta, and this is what is missing
EMX now carries a beta label everywhere. What works today, what is not there yet, and why we would rather say so than let a customer find out.
From this week, EMX carries a beta label wherever we present it: on elchi.dev, on emxmail.ch and in the documentation. EMX is business email on your own domain, stored encrypted in Geneva. A lot of it works well. Some things a company may expect are not there yet, and the label is how we say that before anyone signs up.
What works today
- Mailboxes on your own domain, and shared mailboxes such as info@ or office@ with rights per person, at no extra cost.
- A web client that installs like an app, and every mail app over IMAP and SMTP: Outlook, Apple Mail and the phone's own mail app, with app passwords.
- Sign-in to the web client through EAuth, with passkeys and a second factor.
- An API and webhooks, so software can send mail, read it and react to it.
- Incoming mail checked against SPF, DKIM and DMARC, a spam filter, and outgoing mail signed with DKIM and sent from our own servers.
What is not there yet
- Calendar and contacts. CalDAV and CardDAV are missing. Anyone who needs them today adds them from another provider.
- Exchange ActiveSync. Outlook and phones connect over IMAP and SMTP instead.
- An app of its own in the app stores. The installable web client and the phone's own mail app take its place.
- Virus scanning. A scan for known viruses runs only once a virus scanner is connected; none is today. Programs as attachments are still refused.
- Signed installers. The desktop app is open source and builds itself, but its installers are not signed yet.
We do not give dates for these. We add them when they are ready and the list on emxmail.ch gets shorter.
Why a label instead of a footnote
A company that moves its email moves its most important channel. If calendar sync matters to you and we do not have it, you should know before you move, not after. A visible label costs us some sign-ups. A customer who finds a missing feature after the switch costs us more, and costs them a lot more.
What beta does not mean
It does not mean the mail is less safe or less reliable. Messages are stored encrypted in Geneva, the database is kept on three servers, and the service runs on the same cluster and is watched by the same monitors as everything else we operate. Beta describes what is missing, not how carefully the rest is run.
Written by Samuel Krauss, Founder. Filed under emx, email.