Why is MailArmory Providing This Service?

MailArmory is a for-profit company that makes a living by helping people manage their email. Why are we giving out information about free anti-spam and anti-virus tools?

There are two answers. The first is that we believe in the free software community (both 'Free as in speech' and 'Free as in no-money') and we want to help out any way we can. MailArmory owes a great deal to the thousands of developers that have given their time and effort to make the Internet what it is today.

We could not operate without the hundreds of products and ideas that have come from the developers that selflessly share their talents with the world. As a result we're always looking for ways to say 'Thank You!'

The second answer is a bit more pragmatic. Our average customer wants to stop spam and viruses from playing havoc with their employee's productivity. That customer could spend hundreds of hours configuring their mail servers to use the countless spam tools listed on our pages - or they could let us do it for them.

We spend an enormous amount of time making sure that our solution provides the best mail management possible. There's no reason for a potential customer to duplicate that effort when we can provide managed mail service to them so easily.

MailArmory doesn't compete with the free solutions - we use many of them (and many innovations of our own) to provide a service. Helping the free solutions is good for their developers, is good business for us, and is ultimately good for both our customers and the Internet as a whole.