Protected in 5 minutes. Seriously.
No hardware to install. No software to deploy. No agents on your endpoints. One DNS change and every inbound message is filtered before it touches your server.
Three steps. Five minutes.
From signup to full protection, the entire process takes one DNS change. Here’s how it works.
Sign up & add your domain
Create your account and add your domain (about two minutes). Free for 30 days, no credit card. We auto-detect your MX records so you know exactly what to change.
Update your MX records
Point your MX records to MailRoute. We give you the exact values to paste into your DNS provider. No guessing, no ambiguity. Changes propagate in minutes with zero downtime.
You’re protected
MailRoute filters every inbound message before it reaches your server. Quarantine reports show what was blocked, and users can release false positives themselves without opening a ticket.
Migration in minutes, not weeks
The setup wizard walks you through inbound server configuration and the exact MX records to paste into your DNS provider.
No professional services engagement and no multi-week project. Pricing is published and the trial is self-serve, so you start today instead of waiting on quotes and discovery calls. The average customer is filtering production mail in under thirty minutes.
You’ll see exactly what’s configured
The Diagnostics page checks your complete setup (mail servers, MX record, IP lockdown, outbound relay, and email authentication) and shows you at a glance what’s working and what still needs attention. No guesswork.
Under the hood
Every message passes through five filtering layers before delivery. Each layer catches what the previous one missed. Here’s the full pipeline.
IP Reputation & Threat Intelligence
Block known bad senders before the message even arrives.
Sending IPs are checked against real-time threat intelligence and our own reputation database before any message content is received. Known bad actors are rejected at the connection level. No bandwidth wasted.
Newly Registered Domain (NRD) Blocking
Treat brand-new domains with suspicion: most exist only to send phishing.
Domains registered within the past 30 days are flagged and scrutinized. The vast majority exist solely to send phishing and spam. Combined with sender reputation analysis, this stops most malicious campaigns before they begin.
AI-Powered Content Analysis
Read the message the way a person would, and catch the tricks signature tools miss.
AI, machine learning, Bayesian classification, and pattern matching work in parallel, catching phishing, display name spoofing, lookalike domains, and zero-day threats that signature-based tools miss. Every embedded URL is analyzed against real-time threat intelligence.
Virus Scanning
Scan every attachment with multiple antivirus engines before it reaches you.
Every attachment is scanned by multiple antivirus engines simultaneously. Polymorphic malware, ransomware payloads, and trojanized documents are caught and quarantined before they reach your server.
Delivery & Continuity
Deliver clean mail securely, and hold it safely if your server goes down.
Clean mail delivers over TLS. If your server goes down, MailRoute queues messages and retries for up to 15 days, included with every plan. Enterprise adds 30-day always-on webmail continuity, upgradeable to 60 or 90 days.
You control the threshold
You set the SpamScore threshold. Messages at or above go to quarantine, everything below gets delivered. The default works for most organizations; dial it tighter or looser to match your tolerance.
Your users handle their own quarantine
Every day, MailRoute sends users a digest of what’s been held. One click to recover a false positive. No IT ticket. No password required.
Users who want more control can log into the quarantine portal to browse held messages by category (spam, virus, banned files) and release or permanently allow senders directly. You set the guardrails; they handle the exceptions.
Search every message, in real time
Every message MailRoute handles is logged the moment it happens. Search by sender, recipient, subject, or date and see exactly what was delivered, quarantined, or rejected — with the SpamScore and full headers behind every decision. Export to CSV when you need a paper trail.
It’s the first thing resellers and larger IT teams reach for: when a user swears a message never arrived, you have the answer in seconds instead of guessing.
Works with everything you already use
MailRoute sits in front of your mail server as an inbound gateway. It works with any SMTP-compatible system, with deeper integrations for the major platforms.
Office 365
API-level integration with Exchange Online. MailRoute syncs your user list automatically, new mailboxes protected the moment they’re created. Guided onboarding. Becomes your primary filter in front of Exchange Online — run EOP as a pass-through for one quarantine, or keep it as a second layer. GCC and GCC High compatible.
Directory Sync
Mail Flow
✓ Automated setup — or run the PowerShell yourself
Google Workspace
MailRoute runs as an inbound gateway before Google’s filters. Threats stripped before they enter Gmail’s queue. Configure Gmail to accept mail only from MailRoute’s IPs for maximum protection. User provisioning via API.
DNS
Gmail inbound gateway
✓ Documented step-by-step — ~10 min
Any SMTP Mail Server
On-premise Exchange, Postfix, Zimbra, Kerio, MDaemon, cPanel, or any SMTP-compatible server. Point your MX records to MailRoute, tell us where to deliver clean mail, and you’re done. No agents, no plugins, no server changes.
DNS
MailRoute control panel
Works with
✓ No agents · no plugins · ~5 min
The service has been extremely reliable and has evolved steadily to counter new spam and malware threats. We moved operations to Google Apps, but MailRoute remains a key component of our layered protection.
Jim Irving
IT Professional, 4 decades in the industry
Try it free for 30 days
Full-featured trial. No credit card required. Setup in 5 minutes.