AppRiver from OpenText vs. Proton Mail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppRiver from OpenText
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
AppRiver from OpenText (formerly from Zix from 2019, which was acquired by OpenText), is a hosted messaging gateway and security platform featuring anti-spam and email encryption / data loss capability.N/A
Proton Mail
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Proton Mail, from Proton Technologies, boasts being the world’s largest encrypted email provider. An email server, the vendor states their mission is to defend the right to privacy by making end-to-end encrypted email easy enough for anyone to use, and offers free email accounts without ads, and fully encrypted storage wtih servers hosted in Geneva. The ProtonMail high-tier Visionary plan also includes VPN, via the inclusion of Proton Technologies' ProtonVPN service.
$4.99
per month per user
Pricing
AppRiver from OpenTextProton Mail
Editions & Modules
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Proton Free
$0
Up to 1 GB total storage & 150 messages per day
Mail Plus
$4.99
per month 15 GB total Storage and 10 email addresses
Proton Unlimited
$12.99
per month Access to all Proton apps and premium features
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppRiver from OpenTextProton Mail
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Top Cons

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Features
AppRiver from OpenTextProton Mail
Secure Email Gateway
Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Product A and Product B
AppRiver from OpenText
8.6
7 Ratings
2% above category average
Proton Mail
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Ratings
Anti-malware9.86 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Loss Protection7.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Threat Detection9.87 Ratings00 Ratings
Sandboxing6.85 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tools8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AppRiver from OpenTextProton Mail
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(31 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(25 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppRiver from OpenTextProton Mail
Likelihood to Recommend
OpenText
AppRiver is great for both small and large organizations. Small businesses are unlikely to have much if any technical support staff available to them, for which AppRiver would be a great help. Likewise for large companies, having AppRiver can save your tech support team from dealing with basic, common, and repetitive application support, and allowing them to better focus on more important tasks at hand.
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Proton
I was looking for an email provider that will not sell my data and is very privacy-centric. Proton meets that need!
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Pros
OpenText
  • Very useful daily quarantine list emailed to users.
  • Suspicious emails can be viewed online in their sandbox to check validity before releasing from quarantine.
  • Multiple ways to filter emails (domain, email address, text, etc)
  • Link protection is one of the newest options available and we absolutely love it!!
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Proton
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Cons
OpenText
  • They do not support DMARC and DKIM at this time and I don't know when or if they ever will.
  • Their SPF record is not great and can possibly cause issues, at least that is what my support company has told me.
  • Scanning of links in emails seems super limited and or non-existent. THings get through with completely bad malicious all the time and I assume they are not scanning them or they don't have a proper AV on their end.
  • Once a domain is whitelisted any bad emails that may be spoofing that email domain are let through and no other filters apply to the emails. It's frustrating to have to white list 20+ individual email addresses from a company and not be able to white list just the domain and not feel secure doing that.
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Proton
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Usability
OpenText
AppRiver is very easy to use. A new employee can begin using it on their first day.
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Proton
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Support Rating
OpenText
AppRiver's live support is above what I expected, and I use it exclusively. I always get a professional, courteous, and knowledgeable tech that is easy to understand within a few minutes of placing a call. If you do have to leave a message they have always promptly returned my call.
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Proton
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Alternatives Considered
OpenText
AppRiver requires the least amount of management time, the pricing is better and the minimums are such that almost all SMB's won't be buying shelfware. If you are an MSP, become a partner and you will see spam problems become a thing of the past.
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Proton
Proton had a wider offering of products like vpn and drive. I ended up paying for a yearly subscription, I liked it so much.
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Return on Investment
OpenText
  • Efficiency, teams adapt quickly to changes or new business needs.
  • Support gives us alternatives on how to establish new timings for new business lines on email.
  • An increase in profit owing to a reduction in the amount of assistance our in-house IT staff is required to provide.
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Proton
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