What is an MTA?

A Mail Transfer Agent is a mail server or mail exchanger — you might also hear it called an MX host or mail relay. It exchanges messages across the network between mail servers in a background process, traditionally over Port 25.

On the Mailpro platform we mainly send emails, mass emails and transactional automated emails. Behind the scenes, our MTAs handle the routing that gets each of those messages reliably to its destination.

WHY SWITZERLAND

Why route through Switzerland?

Your data is the real asset of your company — your customer database, your content, your product and patent information. And while an email is in transit, your MTA has access to it and can analyse its content. If your provider uses an unsafe cloud, that data is exposed. The safety of your data isn't only technical; it's also about a location that protects it by law.

Data safe by law
Major clouds are US-owned, where the government can access data. In Switzerland that isn't possible.
Hosted in Geneva
We proudly host your data in our own Swiss data center.
High Availability Virtual MTA
Virtual MTAs run on hardware servers; if one fails, sending moves automatically to another (HA-vMTA).
Privacy by design
Swiss data-protection law forbids unauthorized access to data kept in Switzerland.
QUESTIONS

Frequently asked questions

What is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)?
An MTA is a mail server or mail exchanger — also called an MX host or mail relay — that exchanges messages across the network between mail servers in a background process, traditionally over Port 25.
Why does Mailpro host its MTA in Switzerland?
While an email is in transit your MTA can access its content. Hosting in Switzerland protects that data by law: unlike major US-owned clouds, Swiss-hosted data cannot be accessed by a foreign government.
What is a High Availability Virtual MTA?
Mailpro hosts virtual MTAs on top of hardware servers. If a server or virtual server fails, sending moves automatically to a new MTA — that redundancy is what we call a High Availability Virtual MTA (HA-vMTA).

Route your email through Swiss infrastructure

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