Compared
MailDock vs Google Workspace
Google’s hosted productivity suite. Mail is one part of it.
If you want mail to be somebody else’s problem and you are happy paying per person for it, Google is very good at this and you should use it. Pick MailDock when the per-seat maths stops working, or when the data has to be somewhere specific.
What Google Workspace does better
- You run nothing. No server, no upgrades, no reverse DNS, no 3am.
- Deliverability from Google’s infrastructure is a solved problem you never think about.
- Docs, Sheets, Meet, Drive and the rest come with it. MailDock is mail and only mail.
- Mobile apps, offline, and a client every one of your staff has already used.
Where MailDock fits better
- The price does not grow with your headcount.
- Your mail is on infrastructure you chose, in a jurisdiction you chose.
- Every domain you own is included rather than a separate consideration.
- You can read the compose file and the database. Nothing about how it works is opaque.
Side by side
Shape, not price. Theirs changes without telling us, and a page quoting it would be wrong the week after — check their site.
| Google Workspace | MailDock | |
|---|---|---|
| Where mail lives | Google’s infrastructure | On a machine you rent and control |
| What you pay for | Per user, per month | One server, per year, whatever the mailbox count inside your tier |
| Who operates it | You | |
| Extra domains | Supported, as aliases or additional domains | Included up to the tier’s cap |
| Beyond mail | A full productivity suite | Mail, webmail and admin — nothing else |
| Getting out | Takeout, and IMAP | IMAP, and the Maildir on your own disk |