clean-mailbox.com

What It Is

Clean Mailbox is a cloud-based inbound email security gateway designed to stop threats before they reach users’ inboxes. By pointing a domain’s MX records to the service, it filters spam, malware, phishing attacks, and ransomware in real time in the cloud, helping ensure delivered emails are safe and clean.

Core Dimensions

• Protection coverage: Covers the main threats targeting inbound email, including antivirus protection (cloud-based signature scanning), anti-spam filtering (real-time detection engine and scoring rules), anti-phishing protection (visual fingerprints and link reputation analysis), content filtering (custom attachment rules such as blocking EXE/ZIP files), and sender authentication (SPF/DKIM/DMARC policies to prevent spoofing). It also offers a CAPTCHA challenge mechanism for first-time senders to help defend against bots.
• Deployment: Pure SaaS model with no hardware or software required. You only need to modify your DNS MX records to route email through Clean Mailbox, and deployment can be completed in 2 minutes.
• Compliance certifications: Its infrastructure is located in France and strictly follows the European GDPR (RGPD). It provides a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) for B2B customers, and payment processing complies with PCI-DSS standards.
• Management and alerts: Provides an intuitive web dashboard where administrators can view blocking statistics such as spam rate and cleanliness score, manage quarantine, configure rules and domains, review reports, and manage user permissions. It supports incident notifications and user-level quarantine access.
• Integration capabilities: Compatible with any SMTP server, whether self-hosted or managed by providers such as Google, Microsoft, OVH, and others.
• Suitable scale: Works for everyone from individuals to small and midsize businesses, with a flexible pricing model based on domains and email volume.

Pricing

Clean Mailbox uses transparent domain-based subscription pricing and offers a 30-day free trial. The Basic plan is €3.29/month for 6,000 emails, Pro is €10.99/month for 20,000 emails, Business is €21.99/month for 50,000 emails, and VIP is €43.99/month for 200,000 emails. If you exceed your quota, you can either let additional emails pass through unfiltered or continue filtering at €0.001/email. The CAPTCHA feature is an optional add-on at €1/user/month.

Pros and Cons

Pros: Extremely simple deployment, requiring only an MX record change; transparent pricing with a low entry cost; broad protection coverage, with the CAPTCHA mechanism being especially useful against bots; GDPR-compliant with data retained in Europe.
Cons: Protects inbound email only, with no outbound protection mentioned; the service is provided on a “best effort” basis with no clear SLA guarantee; liability is capped at the previous month’s subscription fee; CAPTCHA and excess email filtering cost extra.

Who It’s For

Small and midsize businesses (SMBs), IT teams, and individual professionals looking for a lightweight, quick-to-deploy, budget-friendly email security solution—especially organizations with European data privacy compliance requirements.

Access from China

Access from China is unknown. However, because its infrastructure is in France, domestic mail servers routing email through it may experience latency. Payment is by credit card, which may be inconvenient for users in China. The text does not mention alternatives, but similar products in this category include email gateways such as Mimecast and Proofpoint.