diego C.
6 years of trust destroyed in a day - Avoid at all costs
We were loyal MXroute customers for over 6 years, using their service for legitimate B2B email communications for our business and our clients. Unfortunately, due to a mistake by a single EMPLOYEE who sent unsolicited emails to a lead database, MXroute instantly terminated our entire account — affecting multiple domains and mailboxes — without prior notice or a chance to correct the issue. While I completely understand their need to protect their infrastructure from spam, shutting down a long-standing customer with no prior history of abuse, and refusing to even grant access to our data or offer an export of our mailboxes, is deeply unprofessional and disproportionate. This one mistake by a staff member should not have led to a total business shutdown, with no way to recover critical business and client emails built over years. It is an extremely rigid policy, and they showed no willingness to consider the context or help recover our data. If you are a business relying on MXroute for critical communication, please be aware that one rogue employee — or even a simple error — can cost you access to all your data, with no support or flexibility from MXroute. They do not appear to have a fair or balanced procedure to protect loyal customers. What is worse, their support confirmed that all data is deleted immediately at the time of termination — without any investigation, no chance to recover years of legitimate business email, and no way to export critical data. We are extremely disappointed and would advise other companies to think twice before entrusting essential business email to a provider that can instantly lock you out of your own history without recourse. ////// EDIT 1 I fully agree with MXroute’s policy of protecting their platform from spam — and I’ve taken full responsibility from day one for the actions of my employee. But if you believe a rogue employee can’t exist in a business, you don’t understand how businesses work. We had 6 years of clean, legitimate use — wiped instantly, with no chance to recover data that impacts not just us, but our clients. One of your own agents told me: “All data is deleted at the time of termination, so there is no bringing back the account.” So yes — you destroy data first, then investigate later. That’s not professionalism. And while I contacted support multiple times through your ticket system without a reply, posting here got a response within an hour. That speaks for itself. EDIT 2 /// Most unprofessional service I have ever received.. Getting an F you directly from the owner.
Response from MXrouteJul 8, 2025
Thanks for this review. It gives us a great opportunity to be crystal clear about who we are, and who we’re not, for. > due to a mistake by a single EMPLOYEE who sent unsolicited emails to a lead database That’s called sending spam. It's not a gray area, it's not a harmless oops. It's the exact kind of activity our platform is engineered to repel. The overwhelming majority of businesses out there operate successfully without sending 1497 (conservative estimate) unsolicited marketing emails. If your business model depends on that, this was never the right place for you. > refusing to even grant access to our data or offer an export of our mailboxes, is deeply unprofessional and disproportionate Over time, we’ve learned the hard way that any leniency here is interpreted by spammers as a welcome mat. Every time we “make an exception,” it invites ten more abusers through the door. We made a choice: serve our good customers, or be a safe haven for bad actors. We choose to serve the ones who do things right. Our policies are strict because they have to be. If we’re not militant, we become part of the spam problem and everyone suffers for it. Including the very people we’re here to protect. > It is an extremely rigid policy Correct. It works. > and they showed no willingness to consider the context or help recover our data The time for context was before you gave Ramon unrestricted access and no oversight. Not after the damage was done. > If you are a business relying on MXroute for critical communication You’re making our case for us. The vast majority of the businesses who trust us with their email are too professional to ever find themselves in this situation. They vet their hires. They set boundaries. They don’t let “rogue employees” mass-email scraped lists for over a week. > one rogue employee If your employee can nuke your entire email reputation in nine days with no one noticing, your issue isn’t with us. Your issue is with your internal controls. > or even a simple error Let’s not redefine “error” to mean “1497 unsolicited marketing emails sent over 9 days.” That’s not a mistake. That’s a sustained campaign. The kind spammers run. > They do not appear to have a fair or balanced procedure to protect loyal customers We do. You ran into it on July 2. That procedure protects our loyal customers from reputational damage caused by activity like yours. > without any investigation False. The logs and commentary we shared with you were the result of a detailed, manual investigation by a human. Not a script. Not an automated flag. We reviewed the facts, then acted. > you destroy data first, then investigate Why would we terminate for a policy violation before we investigate it? That doesn’t even make sense. > And while I contacted support multiple times through your ticket system without a reply, posting here got a response within an hour. That speaks for itself. That’s because support tickets receive professional responses from someone actively sitting at a desk. Bad reviews from spammers receive responses via cell phone while I’m sitting on the toilet (I’m in the shower for this edit). By all means, dig yourself a deeper hole here. > would advise other companies to think twice before entrusting essential business email to a provider that can instantly lock you out of your own history without recourse If you're being honest, what you're really saying is: “Spammers shouldn’t use MXroute.” And on that point, we wholeheartedly agree. > Most unprofessional service I have ever received Your version of professionalism is extremely skewed. I'll admit, a lot of people share your definition of it. That's why they come to me, because they're tired of this concept of "professionalism" standing in the way of being provided with the service they were promised when they paid for it. We stand up for all of our customers against the one who demands that all the rest suffer for their benefit.


