AI, LLMs, and Boxy
Understanding what they are — and what they are not At Runbox we've been thinking a lot about what we hear in the news about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and what that means for us as individuals, as a privacy conscious business and for our customers. We've had many discussions and debates on this...
Earth Day 2026: Our power, our planet – how your inbox can make a difference
This Earth Day, the theme “Our Power, Our Planet” reminds us that real change starts with the choices we make every day. Email is no exception: the average email generates about 4g of CO₂, and those with attachments can emit up to 50g—adding up to 410 million tons of CO2 from emails...
The secret behind Runbox 7’s speed
Runbox 7 Webmail recently entered open beta, and if you haven't tried it yet you are missing out!...
Happy New Year from Runbox
As 2018 draws to a close and the sun returns in the northern hemisphere we can conclude that it's...
Runbox 7 is going open source
We are very excited to announce that we are now making the Runbox 7 App available as open source...
Runbox 7 Webmail app for mobile phones
We are making great progress with the Runbox 7 Webmail app and we are very excited that a version...
Sub-addressing (plus addressing)
In the last blog post we outlined how you can use aliases to help organise you email, and also how...
Runbox reviewed by PC Magazine
Runbox was reviewed by PC Magazine recently and given high marks for the privacy and security...
“Drop Gmail, Outlook, and iCloud: Norwegian challenger clearly best on privacy”
Runbox is hailed in a major Norwegian news outlet for providing superior privacy protection.
New Terms of Service and Privacy Policy in effect
As announced one month ago, our new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy implementing the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) take effect today.
Vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME
We have been following a story that appeared recently about vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME that can cause a leak of the plaintext content of encrypted emails.
GDPR and Updates to our Terms and Policies
On May 25, 2018 the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect in all countries in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Our path to GDPR compliance — and how it will strengthen the protection of your personal data
Runbox has been focusing on privacy and information security from day one, and have paid attention to the strict Norwegian legislation concerning the processing of personal data ever since.
Runbox is leaving the Facebook platform
At Runbox we work conscientiously every day to ensure that we act in accordance with our Company...
DDoS Attacks – Summary of Events
Between November 4-6, Runbox experienced powerful DDoS attacks by a group calling themselves...
New DDoS Attack Friday
We are currently being attacked again, and are working with our partners to deflect the attack. At...
DDoS Attacks on Runbox
Yesterday and today Runbox was subject to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. This was...
“Denial of service” attack on Runbox
We had a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on our email services today, preventing some...
Email Encryption with Runbox
There has been much talk in the media recently about using email encryption to...