We performed a comparison between IceWarp and Proofpoint Email Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Google, Microsoft, Zimbra and others in Email Applications."The most valuable feature of IceWarp is the chat rooms and file-sharing, they are useful. It is convenient that everything is in one place. You can easily share and collaborate documents, making the program's unity a significant advantage."
"An effective, functional, very good tool for controlling resources."
"The groupware module is the most valuable feature."
"The product is used very extensively in my company since we have around 1,500 users using it. Also, there is no requirement for any administrators to manage the product by the people who own the solution."
"It's scalable and stable."
"IceWarp has multiple applications that are easy to use for many people."
"The solution's voice services work well for our company."
"Its price is the most valuable. It is definitely one of the lowest price solutions."
"The initial implementation is pretty easy to handle."
"The most valuable features are the business email compromise protection and targeted attack prevention."
"The most valuable features of Proofpoint Email Protection are ease of use, data loss prevention, antivirus, and spam protection."
"I like all the features with Proofpoint, such as how it filters the spam and marketing mail, lost reality mail, blocks phishing attacks, blocks malicious attachments, and stops phishing links. Also it can defend against the business email compromise impersonation technique. It is a complete solution for all email attacks. It filters for the bad, malicious attachments. If there is any executable file, it can be deleted. It is a good, complete solution."
"They have customized security rules, mature rules, anti-virus protection, as well as email authentication similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC."
"The solution blocks malicious emails containing viruses and malware and reduces them out of spam."
"A one-stop shop for email protection"
"Provides better control over emails, especially those sent via Office 365 on the cloud."
"Our customers sometimes have problems receiving mail."
"It is difficult to disable user rights on the console so some users accidentally delete their documents or user details."
"With multiple databases for VOIP, chat and web IMAP, maintenance is cumbersome."
"Although it is not a tool, video conferencing should be scalable and operate in a professional and efficient way."
"I would like to have a trial for mobile applications and more documentation similar to Google Drive with mobile applications."
"The exchange compatibility mode is rather limited. Their technical support can also be better. They only provide online support, and there should be some option for escalating."
"The tool's configuration capabilities are not straightforward. Apart from that, if I want to archive emails into a vault so that they can be retrieved again later, the integration doesn't work, and IceWarp crashes."
"The solution should improve the mailing list feature. Google has a similar feature where you can automate sending files to different people in a sequence, but that feature is no longer available in the current version of IceWarp. Other features may also have been removed in the current version."
"The stability and UI are the two areas of the solution with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"There is room for improvement in detecting and preventing phishing attacks. While the solution performs well in some aspects, it struggles with phishing threats."
"The solution could lower its price."
"The incident reporting on offer needs to be improved. It's lacking right now. It should be on the platform somewhere."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Some use cases haven't been dealt with yet."
"Integration and filtering out who you want and don't want to have integrated ID could be improved."
"Proofpoint Email Protection could improve by reducing the price."
IceWarp is ranked 6th in Email Applications with 15 reviews while Proofpoint Email Protection is ranked 1st in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 46 reviews. IceWarp is rated 8.6, while Proofpoint Email Protection is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IceWarp writes "A tool that is scalable and can accommodate a large number of users but needs to improve the support it provides to its users ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Proofpoint Email Protection writes "A reasonably priced product that offers protection to emails, along with spam filters". IceWarp is most compared with Google Workspace, Microsoft Exchange, Zoho Mail, Zimbra Collaboration and KerioConnect, whereas Proofpoint Email Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Cisco Secure Email and Fortinet FortiMail.
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