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Mimecast Advanced Email Security vs N-able Mail Assure comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 2, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Mimecast Advanced Email Sec...
Ranking in Email Archiving
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (15th), Office 365 Protection (2nd), Secure Email Gateway (SEG) (3rd)
N-able Mail Assure
Ranking in Email Archiving
15th
Average Rating
1.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (43rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Email Archiving category, the mindshare of Mimecast Advanced Email Security is 14.5%, down from 23.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of N-able Mail Assure is 2.8%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Email Archiving Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mimecast Email and Collaboration Threat Protection14.5%
N-able Mail Assure2.8%
Other82.7%
Email Archiving
 

Featured Reviews

HS
Email Security Engineer at Logic Infosecurity
Experience high detection and user-friendly policies with reliable email security implementation
The system is not user-friendly because you have to create policies that are mapped in a dictionary. As an IT engineer, I understand how it works, but explaining it to another IT person can be difficult. Having more user-friendly dashboards would improve the work experience. In Mimecast Email Security, checking policies in the dictionary or gateway is very complicated, and not everyone understands this process. If you examine the Check Point portal, it's user-friendly with easily accessible tabs that anyone can explore. With Mimecast Email Security, making changes might impact existing mailboxes. The portal is complicated compared to Check Point's user-friendly interface.
This is a dud product with inferior spam filtering
This is a dud product with inferior spam filtering versus alternatives like SpamHero, and the continuity feature is essentially marketing fluff. Failed deliveries, for example, they don't count it as an issue so those messages won't be queued for another delivery attempt. As I understand it from talking to their support, if the server pings or sends any response at all, then Mail Assure will not keep a copy. It will also weirdly mark messages during that outage as rejected, so it's not like Mail Assure doesn't know that the message never reached the user(s).

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution offers good technical support."
"Mimecast has been in the market for a long time; it's a good tool if you want to simplify your operations and a good tool for removing on-prem appliances that otherwise you would need to do with the protection that Mimecast provides."
"The security on offer is very good."
"I have been satisfied with Mimecast Email Security as a good solution."
"It's really quite user-friendly. In terms of technical superiority and the product itself, there are no complaints. It is really cutting edge."
"It offers an easy initial setup."
"In terms of efficacy, Proofpoint is better than Mimecast, though it's a little difficult to manage."
"The piece that is most valuable from the Mimecast standpoint will be the sandboxing feature."
"The only benefit from Mail Assure is its white label feature and its per-user licensing plus the ability to package archiving and spam protection into a single interface."
 

Cons

"As for areas for improvement within Mimecast Web Security, I believe there is quite a lot that can be improved."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The feature that should be included is to remove the block on the encrypted files."
"The product's interface could be improved to be more user-friendly."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
"We have subscribed to an archival service, and yet, when we have to get our data out, we have to pay a fee to get our own data."
"The installation is not so straightforward."
"We have subscribed to an archival service, and yet, when we have to get our data out, we have to pay a fee to get our own data. They charge an extraction fee."
"This is a dud product with inferior spam filtering versus alternatives like SpamHero, and the continuity feature is essentially marketing fluff."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For what it is, the product is overpriced."
"It is a bit expensive."
"The solution is expensive."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a ten."
"Compared to the other solutions in the market, Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection's pricing is fine."
"The customers can select the license packages as per their requirements."
"It's an expensive solution."
"Its price is in the middle range. It is a structured licensing model where there are various components that you can add or choose to add or not."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Government
6%
Construction Company
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise13
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Questions from the Community

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Also Known As

Mimecast Email Security with Targeted Threat Protection, Mimecast Web Security, Mimecast Mailbox Continuity, Email and Collaboration Threat Protection
SolarWinds MSP Mail, SolarWinds Mail Assure, SolarWinds MSP Mail Assure
 

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Sample Customers

Azizi Developments, Affinity Credit Union, Aftercare, Al Abbar Group
eNet Systems, WinAdmins, Newport Systems
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