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Proxmox Mail Gateway: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Proxmox Mail Gateway is an email security product that sits as a mail proxy between the firewall and the internal mail server. It filters incoming and outgoing email for spam, viruses, trojans and phishing, using components such as SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Its documentation describes control of all mail traffic with a focus on spam and virus detection; a web interface, message tracking, spam quarantine and high availability through clustering are part of the product. It works with existing mail servers such as Microsoft Exchange or Postfix. It can be installed from an ISO on a server of your own, on top of Debian, or as an LXC container on Proxmox VE.

Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, and describes itself as an independent company whose only investors are its customers and supporters. Proxmox Mail Gateway is open-source software, with paid subscriptions for support and related services. Because you run the gateway yourself, you decide where mail traffic is processed, for example within the EU.

Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 4, 2026
Headquarters
AT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Proxmox Mail Gateway

The European alternatives to Proxmox Mail Gateway come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Proxmox Mail Gateway

Proxmox Mail Gateway is headquartered in AT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Proxmox Mail Gateway scores best on data residency.

Proxmox Mail Gateway is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Proxmox Mail Gateway together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Proxmox Mail Gateway?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Proxmox Mail Gateway include audriga, Axigen and Benno MailArchiv. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Proxmox Mail Gateway?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Proxmox Mail Gateway include Benno MailArchiv, CipherMail and Dovecot. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Proxmox Mail Gateway GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Proxmox Mail Gateway is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Proxmox Mail Gateway an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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