Messaging Architects (MA) is a Canadian software company specializing in e-mail products.

The company launched in March 1995 as ChronoFAX, a distributor of computer-based fax software.

When the three-and-a-half-year partnership with Tobit ended, the company was again renamed to Messaging Architects.

Messaging Architects claims to have a Professional Services Team with full Novell and Microsoft Exchange certification.

From late 2008 Mark Crispin, inventor of IMAP, who worked at Messaging Architects[1] as a Senior Software Engineer, developing an entirely new IMAP server based upon a distributed mail store, and extending the MIX format.