OpenWorthy compared with hosted triage services

A factual comparison with the general design of hosted email triage services (services that sort your mail from their own servers). Individual services differ; check each one’s own documentation.

	OpenWorthy	A hosted triage service
Where your mail is processed	On your computer	On the service’s servers
Who can access your mailbox	Only software running on your machine	The service’s servers, with the access you granted
What is read	Headers only	Varies by service
What it does to mail	Adds or removes its own marker	Commonly moves mail into folders
Works when your computer is off	With Pro, your mail server marks mail from your most trusted senders as it arrives; everything else when a computer of yours is on (or an always-on machine you own, in Docker)	Yes
Explains each decision	Yes, every mark says why	Varies
Price	Free for one mailbox; Pro US$39 a year for every mailbox (pricing)	Usually a subscription
Account with the vendor	None — a Pro licence is text you paste in	Required

OpenWorthy trades “always on, nothing to install” for “nobody else ever touches your mailbox.” If the second matters more to you, install it.