AppRiver from OpenText vs. Paubox Email Suite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppRiver from OpenText
Score 7.6 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
Paubox Email Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Paubox, headquarted in San Francisco, offers their HIPAA compliant encrypted email service, the Paubox Email Suite, which features Encrypted Email, Inbound Security with ExecProtect, and Email DLP under one subscription.
$29
per month
Pricing
AppRiver from OpenTextPaubox Email Suite
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$29
per month up to 10 users
Plus
$59
per month up to 10 users
Premium
$79
per month up to 10 users
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppRiver from OpenTextPaubox Email Suite
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
AppRiver from OpenTextPaubox Email Suite
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
Paubox Email Suite
-
Ratings
Anti-malware9.86 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizability8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Loss Protection7.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Threat Detection9.87 Ratings00 Ratings
Sandboxing6.95 Ratings00 Ratings
End-to-End Encryption9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Management Tools8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AppRiver from OpenTextPaubox Email Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(31 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.4
(25 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppRiver from OpenTextPaubox Email Suite
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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Paubox
It is well-suited where you have access to manage your business's own domain settings. It is well-suited to medical professionals requiring send/receive email encryption of PHI/PII in compliance with HIPAA. It is less well-suited to solo users than group users, due to Paubox's requirement to buy licenses in sets of 3 (requiring you to pay $120x3=$360 yearly for 3 licenses, even if you only need 1 license).
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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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Paubox
  • Email encryption.
  • Impersonation detection.
  • Email DLP.
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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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Paubox
  • Only drawback was the actual setup in Outlook was a little tricky. I called support and they made it easy.
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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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Paubox
No answers on this topic
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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Paubox
No answers on this topic
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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Paubox
Paubox is much easier to use than other software we have tried. Once it's installed, we almost forget about it.
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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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Paubox
  • Paubox provided a plug-n-play solution, requiring no extra development, so the switchover cost was very low.
  • By integrating with our existing support system, Paubox added no overhead to our customer support.
  • The user experience is great for the vast majority of our customers (those whose email provider supports TTL encryption), so customer satisfaction remains high.
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