Proof of delivery

Proof you can hand to the other side.

Turn a mail a provider accepted into a signed certificate covering the content hash, DKIM, the provider handoff, and the delivery events the provider reported. Its signature and timestamp verify in anyone's browser without contacting us.

When a recipient insists an email never arrived, or arrived saying something else, the argument is usually memory against memory. A proof-of-delivery certificate ends it: Mailway binds the message's SHA-256 content hash, its original DKIM signature, the provider handoff, and the provider's delivery events into one Ed25519-signed document with an RFC 3161 timestamp.

A certificate also says where its evidence stops. Acceptance is Mailway's own record of the provider handoff; delivery is the provider's event; and a mail with no delivery event is certified as accepted, never more. It can't show whether a person opened the mail, because Mailway adds no tracking to your message (how verification works).

Mailway · Proof of delivery
Certificate
of delivery
message m.01j9zk3vq7
content sha-256 9f2c…a41e ✓ match
dkim d=yourapp.com ✓ verified
accepted SES msg-id · 2026-04-10T09:41:07Z
delivered SES event · 2026-04-10T09:41:08Z
signature ed25519:Kx4v…9dQ=
verify mailway.to/m/f3XK…
Proof of delivery

“I never got that email.”
Here’s the receipt.

Every SMTP-relayed message is archived with its raw MIME and original DKIM signature. Any mail a provider accepted can be turned into an Ed25519-signed proof-of-delivery certificate, countersigned by an independent time authority so it can't be back-dated, and the certificate says whether it proves acceptance or delivery. The signature and the timestamp verify in anyone's browser, with no call to our database; compare the certificate's key with Mailway's to know it came from us. Share the rendered email itself with a private mailway.to link, and settle the dispute instead of having it.

Certificates are included on Business and up, and share links on Pro and up. Free has 1 limited share link a month.

Retention on paid plans
SendGrid Essentials
3 days
Mailgun Foundation
5 days
Postmark default
45 days
Mailway
90d → years

30 days on Free, 90 days on Pro, 6 months on Team, 1 year on Business, custom on Enterprise, with retention add-ons (+1 year, +3 years, +7 years, or unlimited) for SOX, HIPAA, and FINRA record-keeping. All of it EU-hosted.

Built in Europe

What Mailway stores stays on European soil

EU data residency

Your mail is received, routed, and archived inside the European Union, all in Germany: the servers in Falkenstein, the archived messages in Frankfurt (AWS S3). Not an optional EU region: the only one.

Encrypted in transit & at rest

TLS on every SMTP connection, both STARTTLS and implicit TLS. Stored payloads compressed and encrypted at rest.

Your keys only

Pure BYOK. Your mail rides your own provider accounts, never pooled with other Mailway customers. Your reputation stays yours.

Proven in production

5+ years of real customer volume, 889,000+ messages, 99.9% accepted by a provider after failover.

one EU region today, with additional regions on the roadmap as we grow

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