About 2Mail: the people behind the platform

2Mail is the email brand of JAAN bv, a Belgian IT company in Zelzate that has built and run its own platforms since 2000. The platform runs on our own servers in Belgium, the software is written in-house and when you call, you get someone on the line who knows the system.

This page explains why an SMS and hosting company built an email platform, how we run it day to day and what you can expect from us once you are a customer.

Our story

JAAN bv started in 2000 in Zelzate, East Flanders, and grew into a company with four brands: SMSBOX for SMS traffic, WWW4 for web hosting, JAAN for custom software and 2Mail for email. Those brands share one thing: we build and run the infrastructure ourselves, rather than reselling a foreign product.

2Mail grew out of a practical observation. Customers sending their SMS through SMSBOX kept asking us the same question about their email: why does the order confirmation end up in the spam folder while the SMS arrives fine? On the SMS side we had years of experience with delivery, reputation and monitoring. We applied that discipline to email, on our own servers.

The result is a managed SMTP relay for transactional and bulk email, with a dashboard that shows what happened to every single message. Not a resold service, but a platform we wrote ourselves and fine-tune every day.

2000 in business, with our own platforms
99,99 % platform availability, monitored 24/7
12 volume tiers, from 1,000 to 250,000 emails per month
3 support languages: Dutch, French and English

How we work: four principles

These four commitments shape how we build the platform and how we deal with customers. They are verifiable, and you are welcome to hold us to them.

Everything in-house

The sending software, the dashboard, the API and the bounce processing were written by us and run on our own servers. When something goes wrong we look at our own code and logs, without waiting for a supplier.

The same discipline as with SMS

Reaching the inbox is not luck. Every domain gets an IP warm-up, rate limiting and automatic retries on greylisting or throttling. Bounces are processed immediately, so a bad address cannot hurt your reputation twice.

You see what we see

For every message the dashboard shows whether it was delivered, deferred, bounced or rejected, with the receiving server's response alongside. Anyone who wants to see that before becoming a customer gets a free live demo with anonymised data.

A person on the line

Personal follow-up is included, not an option. At onboarding we go through your domain, your authentication and your volume together. After that you simply call or email, in your own language, with no ticket queue.

Infrastructure: our own servers in Belgium

Sending, storage, statistics and tracking run on our own infrastructure in Belgium, inside the European Union. That is not a marketing choice but the way JAAN bv has worked since 2000, for SMS and hosting as well.

Own servers in Belgian datacentres; processing and storage stay inside the EU.
Randomised IP pool with rate limiting per domain, and handover to the receiving server within 10 seconds.
24/7 monitoring of the platform, with 99.99% availability as the commitment.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC are set up in one click from the dashboard; we check along with you.
Separate SMTP login and API key per application, each revocable on its own.
GDPR-compliant, with a data processing agreement available on request.
Why the location of your data matters Read about deliverability

What you can expect from support

At 2Mail, support is not a separate department passing tickets around. You talk to people who build and run the platform, and who already know your domain from onboarding.

Reachable by phone on +32 9 328 03 83, in Dutch, French and English.
No ticket queue: your question goes straight to someone who can solve it.
IP warm-up and personal follow-up at onboarding are included in every plan.
With a bounce or a rejection, we read the receiving server's response together with you.
Jaan Colman — Managing director

Jaan Colman is managing director of JAAN bv and ultimately responsible for the 2Mail platform. If a question goes beyond the first line, it lands with someone who knows the software itself. LinkedIn profile

Ask your question See the frequently asked questions

2Mail's sister brands

2Mail is one of the four brands of JAAN bv. A customer of one brand uses the same login and the same invoicing everywhere. That combination is exactly why many customers bring both their SMS and their email to us.

See the pricing How does SMTP relay work?

Frequently asked questions about 2Mail

JAAN bv, a Belgian IT company in Zelzate that has built and run its own platforms since 2000. Besides 2Mail, the company operates the brands SMSBOX (SMS), WWW4 (hosting) and JAAN (custom software). Its managing director is Jaan Colman.
Because SMSBOX customers kept asking the same question: why does the SMS arrive and the email not? The experience with delivery, reputation and monitoring on the SMS side was applied directly to email: IP warm-up, rate limiting, automatic retries and bounce processing, on our own servers.
In Belgium, on JAAN bv's own infrastructure. Sending, storage, statistics and open and click tracking stay inside the EU. A data processing agreement is available on request.
By phone on +32 9 328 03 83 or through the contact form, in Dutch, French and English. There is no ticket queue: your question lands with someone who helps run the platform. IP warm-up and personal follow-up at onboarding are included.
Yes. A free live demo of the dashboard with anonymised data is available, without registration. That way you see in advance what the statistics per domain and the logs per message look like.
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