BillionMail
With over 15,000 GitHub stars accumulated since its February 2025 launch, BillionMail delivers the rare combination of a production mail transfer agent and a full email marketing suite in a single self-hosted package — eliminating the monthly per-subscriber fees charged by Mailchimp, SendGrid, and similar platforms. The Go-based architecture bundles Postfix for SMTP transmission, Dovecot for IMAP and POP3 mailbox access, Rspamd for intelligent spam filtering and greylisting, and RoundCube for browser-based webmail, all orchestrated through Docker Compose with PostgreSQL for persistent storage and Redis for queue management and caching. The marketing engine supports unlimited subscriber lists with tag-based segmentation, scheduled campaign sends, A/B subject line testing, and both HTML and drag-and-drop visual template editors for crafting responsive emails without coding. Real-time analytics dashboards track sent volume, deliverability rate, open rate, click-through rate, and bounce reasons, while the platform provides step-by-step DNS record configuration wizards for SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to maximize inbox placement. A transactional email API exposes REST endpoints for single and batch sending, enabling integration with CRM systems, e-commerce platforms, and custom applications. Auto-provisioned free SSL certificates, Fail2ban brute-force protection, and privacy-first architecture with zero third-party tracking ensure secure operation. The platform installs in under eight minutes via a single shell script and supports SMTP on port 25, SMTPS on 465, submission on 587, IMAP on 143/993, and POP3 on 110/995. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPLv3 licensed.
Owlmail
Every email your app sends while you build and test it lands in OwlMail's browser inbox instead of a customer's mailbox. Point any application's SMTP settings at OwlMail and every message is ready to open as rendered HTML, plain text, headers, or raw source. Attachments and inline images sit beside the body, and seven preset preview widths show how the message lays out on phones, tablets, and desktops before anyone real sees it. A Verify panel checks subject, body, and link hosts against expectations, while CI pipelines use the REST API with delivery cursors to wait for exactly the messages their test run produced, assert on them, and clean up afterwards. Coding agents get the same inbox read-only over MCP, so an assistant can confirm a signup email arrived without touching your mail server. When a message proves itself, relay it onwards to a real SMTP server, by hand or automatically under filtering rules, or fire webhooks with HMAC signatures and retry queues into the rest of your automation. Everything stores as plain .eml files on disk, with optional SQLite indexing, S3 attachment storage, and ZIP exports for archiving. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
mailez
Mail for your own domain stays on your own server with mailez, a self-hosted stack that delivers over SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 and adds a webmail, calendar, contacts, file storage, and an admin console, all started with a single command. Readers get a draggable three-pane webmail that updates itself over a push channel, merges replies into conversations, folds quoted history, and searches with from:, to:, has:attachment, and date terms. Keyboard shortcuts, a command palette, snooze, scheduled send, undo for bulk moves, and quick reply keep daily mail fast, and the interface installs as an offline-capable app with light and dark themes. Privacy-minded users add PGP signing and encryption, two-factor login, and remote-image blocking, and write server-side rules in a Sieve editor. Calendar, contacts, and Drive sit beside mail, with ICS subscriptions, vCard import, CardDAV and CalDAV sync, and share links. Phones and desktop clients configure themselves through autoconfig. Administrators manage domains, mailboxes, aliases, relays, and external mailbox fetching in one console, generate DKIM keys with a click, and follow a DNS wizard and a health page that verify MX, SPF, DMARC, DKIM, blocklists, and MTA-STS. Audit logs and role-based access keep shared servers accountable. The free community edition runs on a single node, while archiving, DLP, LDAP, ActiveSync, and AI features belong to the paid enterprise edition. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Stalwart Mail
Stalwart replaces the traditional Postfix + Dovecot + SpamAssassin + calendar-server stack with one Rust binary that speaks every standard mail and collaboration protocol natively. JMAP, IMAP4rev2, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV, and WebDAV all run inside the same process — no glue scripts, no sidecar daemons, no version conflicts between components. The pluggable storage architecture lets operators choose RocksDB for single-node deployments, FoundationDB for distributed clusters, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, or SQLite for the data store, S3/MinIO/Azure Blob for message blobs, and Elasticsearch or Meilisearch for full-text search, with Redis or the internal engine backing rate limiters and session state. Security features include S/MIME and OpenPGP encryption at rest, automated DKIM key generation with DNS publication, DANE and MTA-STS transport security, automatic ACME TLS provisioning, granular ACLs, rate limiting, and IP banning. The browser-based admin console manages accounts, domains, groups, mailing lists, SMTP queues, DMARC/TLS-RPT/ARF reports, and every configuration object without touching a config file, while the self-service portal at /account gives end users password reset and encryption key management. Multi-tenant support with per-tenant quotas enables hosting-platform deployments, and coordinator-less clustering via Zenoh or NATS scales horizontally by adding nodes. Deploy via Docker or the standalone binary. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL v3 licensed.
Mailu
With over 7,100 GitHub stars and 200 contributors since 2016, Mailu has become one of the most popular self-hosted email solutions, delivering a complete production-ready mail server stack as pre-configured Docker containers that eliminate weeks of manual setup. The platform bundles Postfix for SMTP and Submission with auto-configuration profiles for Thunderbird, Outlook, and mobile clients, Dovecot for IMAP and POP3 with full-text search across email attachments, Rspamd for intelligent spam filtering with auto-learn Bayesian classification, greylisting, SPF and DMARC validation, and ClamAV for antivirus scanning of attachments with configurable malicious file blocking. The web administration interface provides global admin controls, per-domain delegation, user quota management, domain aliases, custom routing rules, and announcement capabilities. Users access self-service features including aliases, auto-reply, auto-forward, fetched accounts from external mailboxes via fetchmail, and Sieve filter management through ManageSieve. Security features include enforced TLS on all connections, automatic Let's Encrypt certificate provisioning, outgoing DKIM signing, DANE and MTA-STS support for transport security, and Snuffleupagus PHP hardening for the web interface. The setup wizard at setup.mailu.io generates complete Docker Compose configurations tailored to specific deployment requirements. All components are free and open-source software with zero proprietary dependencies and no tracking. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
MillionSend
MillionSend is an open-source email platform you run yourself that sends transactional and marketing mail through your own AWS SES account behind a Resend-compatible API. Every message you send becomes a row in the dashboard, and every row opens into a timeline of SES events with the raw payload and the SMTP diagnostic when something bounces. Daily metrics chart sent, delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, and complained volumes against SES thresholds, and broadcasts stop on their own at five percent bounces or 0.1 percent complaints before Amazon can pause your account. Contacts live once for the whole team with custom properties and subscribe state, while segments and topics decide exactly who receives each broadcast. You compose broadcasts from reusable templates with per-contact merge fields, schedule them ahead, and cancel them while they wait. Applications that only speak SMTP send through the relay on port 2587 with an API key as the password, and HTTP integrations use idempotency keys, request logs with secrets redacted, and signed webhooks with a delivery history. Guided domain setup handles DKIM records, hard bounces and complaints are suppressed automatically, and every recipient gets an RFC 8058 one-click unsubscribe. Receiving and agent-ready inboxes are included in beta for mail sent to your verified domains. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
OpenMail
Your entire mail system can live in one self-hosted suite with OpenMail, from SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 delivery to three-pane webmail and the admin console that runs it. Standard clients such as Thunderbird, Apple Mail, and phone apps connect over SMTP ports 25, 587, and 465, IMAP ports 143 and 993, and POP3 ports 110 and 995, while people use the three-pane webmail with folder tree, conversation list, and reading pane at port 3000. You read, write, reply, forward, batch-organize, drag messages between folders, filter stars, search sender, subject, and body text, and follow conversations threaded automatically by their References headers. The rich-text composer autocompletes recipients, accepts dragged attachments and pasted screenshots, saves drafts every 12 seconds, sends on a schedule, and inserts reusable templates imported from HTML or generated with AI. Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint can draft replies, translate mail into twelve languages, and summarize messages, with provider keys encrypted on your server. Administrators get real-time mail statistics with 14-day send and receive trends, user quotas and bans, multi-domain aliases and catch-all addresses, outgoing queue visibility, and audit logs. Adding a domain generates DKIM keys and copy-ready SPF, DKIM, and DMARC DNS records with one-click checks, while rule-based spam scoring, TOTP two-factor authentication, and role-based permissions protect accounts in ten interface languages including right-to-left Arabic and Urdu. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.