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Originally Posted by janusz
(Post 646512)
To be precise: by contactoffice.com
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I am a bit confused if ContactOffice, Mail.be, and Mailfence are all the same service, just offering different domains (which seems to include email.net now) or if they just work together on some domains but are 3 different services in the end.
I do recall, but that was several years ago, having been explained that Mail.be is a separate service that however uses the infrastructure of ContactOffice. Not sure if this is still the case or if they merged alltogether.
As for Mailfence: there seems to be a link to ContactOffice (and mail.be?) too, but they seem to operate in a different way and thus seem to be a stand-alone service rather than being part of ContactOffice.
I realise I should know this, living in Belgium myself. But really, none of these services ever gets mentioned in the Belgian media or press, except maybe very occasionally in specialised IT- or computer-related magazines. The regular newspapers and TV broadcasters never mention these services. Hence, not many Belgians know they excist, and thus not many Belgians use them.
Mail.be at some point (but that's over 10 years ago) did get use in the academical world, with teachers in higher education recommending it to students.
However, overall most Belgians use either Gmail, Outlook/Hotmail, or the email provided by their local ISP.
Not many Belgians have heard of ContactOffice, Mail.be or Mailfence, except those who do research on privacy- and security-focused providers. (but not many people do that, sadly enough)