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Why Akomodix
Sovereignty and innovation, written from scratch.
Over more than 25 years we have installed, maintained and updated mail systems of every kind: patch after patch, migrations, features we waited years for from the established vendors. Akomodix grew out of that: a server and apps written from scratch, with everything we have learnt built in, on infrastructure we run ourselves in Switzerland.
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A server we write ourselves
The mail server is written by us, from scratch, in Rust, around JMAP, the most modern standard for email. No third-party product underneath: we make the decisions on security and features.
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In Switzerland, on our own machines
The platform runs on our own hardware, in Swiss data centres, managed only by our own staff.
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Our own apps, one core
Web, iPhone, Android and desktop share the same core. No third-party tracking kits inside the apps.
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One address
mail.akomodix.swiss works for everything: webmail, apps, phone and email programs. No different addresses depending on your package.
The platform
Everything a business needs, in one place.
Email, calendar, contacts, chat, websites and domains talk to each other, and you manage them all from a single panel.
Email, calendar and contacts
The heart of the platform. It uses standard protocols, so it also works with the programs and phones you use today.
Built on JMAP, the most modern standard; compatible with IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV and CardDAV
Invitations, recurring events and a company address book
Search across all your mail, including message text
Auto-reply and storage per mailbox
Akomodix Mail Client
Our apps for web, iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux: Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks, with the same experience everywhere.
Mail sorted into People, Automatic and Newsletters
Safe reading: no remote images without your consent
Focus mode with blocks and breaks
Six languages
Business chat
Instead of WhatsApp for work messages: private messages with end-to-end encryption, company channels encrypted on our server in Switzerland, just like email.
Every app always shows which of the two spaces you are writing in
Calls and video calls stay out: it isn't meant to do everything
Websites, DNS and certificates
Your websites and domains on the same platform as your email, on our own web servers.
Name servers in several Swiss data centres, in Zurich and Bern
Certificates renewed automatically
One panel for email, websites and domains
Management and purchasing
Domains, DNS, certificates and invoices from platform.akomodix.swiss, the same panel we use ourselves.
Invoices with Swiss QR-bill
Migration from the systems you use today, mailbox by mailbox
Classic Outlook
For people who work with Outlook on their computer: a native connection, with shared calendars, delegation and meeting rooms.
The new Outlook is not supported: it syncs your data through a third-party cloud
Akomodix Mail Client
Apps designed to protect you, not to watch you.
For anyone using Outlook, Gmail or the mail app that came with their phone. One core for every app, written by us: no tracking kits, no cloud between you and your server.
WebIn your browser, at mail.akomodix.swiss
iOSiPhone and iPad
AndroidPhone and tablet, with widgets
WindowsDesktop app
macOSMac app
LinuxDesktop app
No remote images without consent
Newsletters can't tell when or where you open a message, until you decide to show the images.
Every link shows where it really goes
Before you open a link, you see the real site, not the text the sender chose to show you.
Sender checks
Clear warnings when a message pretends to come from someone else.
Direct connection, no cloud in between
The app talks straight to your mail server: messages, calendar, contacts and passwords don't pass through an intermediate cloud. No AI reads your email, no advertising, no third-party tracking kits.
Mail that arrives straight away
With JMAP the server tells the app the moment a message arrives: no checking every few minutes, no wasted battery.
Passwords in the right place
On your phone, credentials live in the device's secure hardware, not in a file.
Focus mode
Email that works for you, not the other way round.
A classic email program interrupts you every time something arrives. The Akomodix apps rethink Calendar, Tasks and Mail around the time you actually spend working.
Focus38 min left
messages on hold7
VIPs and ongoing conversations notify at once1
Next: 10-minute break
Focus blocks
One switch, work blocks and breaks. During a block, only VIPs and replies in ongoing conversations notify at once; the rest arrives at the end of the block. On your phone you can also turn it on from quick settings. You decide what gets through: no counters, no streaks to keep alive.
People first
Your mail sorts itself into People, Automatic and Newsletters: you see straight away who actually wrote to you, and the rest when you have time.
The Now view
The Calendar opens on what is happening now and what comes next, not on a grid of an entire month.
Tasks in the calendar
Tasks with a date appear in your agenda next to your appointments. Overdue ones don't turn red: they move to today, marked To reschedule. No red, no shame.
On your phone and your computer
Focus mode is in the phone app and the desktop app, with the same rules and the same VIPs.
Home screen widgets
Calendar, Tasks and Notes on your phone without opening the app: see your day at a glance.
The Journal
It shows where your time went: calls, mail you write, notes, and who is on “To call back”. In daily use only you see it; like your work mail, it belongs to the company. It stays off until you choose what it records.
Protections built into the server and the apps, the same for every customer. We check them with automated tests, not promises.
Encryption in transit
Connections encrypted with TLS 1.3. The server refuses to accept unencrypted mail from our gateways.
Mail encrypted on disk
Messages and attachments are stored encrypted, with a separate key for each business.
End-to-end encryption, switched on by you
Between Akomodix users, messages travel end-to-end encrypted with OpenPGP, and the apps also read S/MIME. Your business switches it on with the signatures of the people who represent it: you receive a registered letter and encryption starts after 14 days, unless someone stops it. The recovery key is yours alone: if you lose it, we can't recover it. We can't read encrypted messages.
Two-factor authentication
Sign in with a password and a one-time code. After five failed attempts, access is locked.
One password per device
Every phone or program has its own. If you lose a device, you shut it out without changing everything else.
Filtering before the mailbox
Mail from the internet goes through the CybeTower anti-spam and anti-virus gateways, another product of ours, before it reaches the server.
Swiss law
A Swiss company, with data handled by our own staff. No third-party cloud service in the path of your messages.
Who it's for
For businesses that want to know where their data is.
Firms and SMEs
Email, calendar and websites from a single Swiss provider, with a real person who answers.
People bound by confidentiality
Law firms, accountants and trust companies, doctors: data in Switzerland and no third-party cloud in between.
Today's Akomodix customers
We handle the move to the new platform ourselves, mailbox by mailbox, without stopping your email.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How do I move my business to Akomodix?
Akomodix is invitation only: apply using the form and tell us about the mailboxes, domains and programs you use today. We welcome a few businesses at a time, with priority for existing Akomodix customers. We handle the migration ourselves, mailbox by mailbox, without stopping your email and without losing messages, calendars or contacts.
I'm already an Akomodix customer: what changes for me?
We move you to the new platform ourselves, mailbox by mailbox, and let you know in advance. Until the move, your email stays where it is today: you'll find the sign-in for Smart and Premium on the Sign in page.
Can I keep using my email programs?
Yes. The platform uses standard protocols (IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV), so it works with the most common programs and phones. With Mail on iPhone, new mail arrives without instant notifications. Classic Outlook connects natively, with shared calendars and delegation.
Can the Akomodix apps replace Outlook?
Yes. Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks in a single app, on your computer and your phone, connected directly to your server, with message rules, multiple signatures and templates. And with Focus mode, which Outlook doesn't have. Unlike Outlook for phones and the new Outlook, your mail doesn't pass through anyone else's servers: according to Microsoft's own documentation, those apps copy even accounts from other providers, such as Gmail or an IMAP mailbox, into its cloud.
Why isn't the new Outlook supported?
Because, according to Microsoft's documentation, the new Outlook and Outlook for mobile sync accounts from other providers by copying email, calendar and contacts into Microsoft's data centres. With our platform, your messages stay between you and our server in Switzerland: that's why we block them and offer you our apps instead.
Where is my data stored?
On our own hardware, in Swiss data centres, managed only by our own staff. Messages don't pass through third-party cloud services.
Why write a mail server from scratch?
Because in more than 25 years of installing, maintaining and updating mail systems we have seen the limits of the traditional ones: old architectures, endless patches, little innovation. Writing it from scratch, we decide what to protect and what to improve, fix a fault straight away and keep the platform in Switzerland, under our control.
Invitation only
Want to move your business to Akomodix?
Akomodix is invitation only and welcomes a few businesses at a time. Tell us how many mailboxes you have and which programs you use: we'll reply personally, with no obligation, and tell you honestly whether Akomodix is right for you.