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what does mxroute use at back-end smtp and imap?

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Btw I notice that mailchannels (backend of mxroute) puts "country=CH" into some of its headers, making me wonder if the email is going thru Switzerland.

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Correct on first point, but I dont really follow the reasoning on the second point. I havent seen/heard anything bad about MXRoute itself, just that US based hosting isnt something Id want.

@MagicalTrain Well, my guess was your motives for not hosting in the US were the US having anti-privacy laws, no? Isn't that what made your choice an act of defiance? So I suggested using MXroute inst

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I think using MXroute is more defying than hosting your email in Europe, just sayin' :P

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On a tangential: For email-hosting in Europe, what would you guys recommend? MXRoute sadly is not.

There're great and kind people behind MXroute. The only thing holding me back is the lack of sieve filtering.

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MXRoute Pro?!?

I'm impressed with what I've seen of mxroute so far. I have some months left on my much more expensive primary email plan, but may migrate it to mxroute when it gets nearer to expiration.

They certainly all have great reviews, don't they (they don't)? Using MailChannels is not the only thing that matters. You're still sharing a server with people running vulnerable PHP scripts and if y

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I'd say you'd be lucky to find a shared hosting company that even monitors its exim queue, especially if they subscribe to MailChannels expecting it to handle their outgoing filter. Suddenly one user