With over 13,000 GitHub stars and active monthly releases, Mailcow delivers a production-ready mail server infrastructure through Docker Compose orchestration of twelve integrated containers. The stack pairs Postfix as the MTA handling SMTP traffic with Dovecot for IMAP and POP3 retrieval featuring the Flatcurve full-text search engine, while Rspamd provides machine-learning-powered spam filtering with Bayesian classification, DKIM signing, and ARC support. ClamAV scans attachments for malware including Office document macro analysis via Olefy, and SOGo serves as a responsive webmail client with CalDAV, CardDAV, and Microsoft ActiveSync synchronization. The admin panel manages multiple domains, per-user spam score thresholds, quarantine review, black and whitelists, temporary spam aliases, mailbox quotas, and TLS enforcement policies for both inbound and outbound messages. Security features include two-factor authentication via TOTP, WebAuthn, and Yubikey OTP, a Fail2ban-like Netfilter integration for brute-force protection, and automatic SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration. The ACME container handles Let's Encrypt certificate generation with DNS-01 challenge support, while Postfix TLS-Pol provides MTA-STS and DANE/TLSA resolution for encrypted transport. Built-in imapsync enables periodic migration from remote mailboxes, and the REST API allows programmatic management of all server resources. MariaDB stores user data, Redis caches configuration and sessions, and Unbound provides local DNSSEC-validating DNS resolution. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

SOGo adds shared calendars, address books, and a modern webmail interface to your existing Dovecot, Postfix, or Cyrus mail setup, turning familiar infrastructure into a full Exchange competitor. Rather than replacing your IMAP and SMTP servers, SOGo layers collaboration on top of them, becoming the missing link between raw mail delivery and what users actually expect from a workplace communication platform. The ActiveSync implementation synchronizes email, contacts, calendars, and tasks natively with iPhones, Android devices, and Windows without requiring users to manually configure CalDAV endpoints. CalDAV and CardDAV compliance ensures Apple Calendar, Thunderbird (via the official SOGo Connector extension), GNOME Evolution, and Android via DAVx5 all connect without plugins or workarounds. The web interface uses AngularJS Material design with responsive layouts, offering folder management, drag-and-drop calendar scheduling, contact groups, resource booking, and delegation. Shared calendars support free-busy lookups, iMIP event invitations, and per-user ACL permissions for fine-grained access across organizational units. Built on Objective-C with the GNUstep foundation, SOGo delivers exceptional performance: hundreds of concurrent ActiveSync connections from mobile devices alongside webmail and calendar traffic with sub-second response times. With 2,095+ stars and 116 releases, the project has proven its stability in production environments supporting thousands of users. The Docker deployment runs alongside PostgreSQL and memcached.

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.

Modoboa turns a bare mail server into a managed hosting platform, with one web console for domains, mailboxes, aliases, and quotas, plus a full webmail for the people using them. Roles separate super administrators, resellers, domain administrators, and ordinary users, with caps on how many mailboxes and aliases each administrator may create and daily sending limits per domain or mailbox. The webmail offers conversation view, folder subscriptions, scheduled sending, attachments, and search across headers and message bodies. Calendars and address books sync with standard clients, and calendars can be shared. Each user writes Sieve filters and autoreplies in the browser. Deliverability checks cover MX records and DNSBL listings, DKIM keys are generated per domain, and DMARC aggregate reports become per-domain visual reports. Amavis quarantine pages and an Rspamd frontend help with spam. Traffic graphs show message volume. Accounts authenticate against the local database, LDAP, Active Directory, or an existing SMTP server, with TOTP codes or WebAuthn security keys as a second factor. Thunderbird and Outlook configure themselves through built-in autoconfig and autodiscover endpoints. An IMAP migration tool pulls mailboxes from another provider as each person signs in. Administrators can brand the console with custom logos, extend it through plugins, and automate it through a documented REST API. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. ISC licensed.

Running your own mail server usually means assembling five services and praying over DNS records; LanQin Email ships the whole stack in one container. Readers switch between mailboxes, search, label, star, and file messages into folders, then compose with a rich-text editor that handles fonts, colors, code blocks, attachments, emoji, and scheduled sending. Contacts, signatures, inbox rules with automatic forwarding, sender blacklists, and mail statistics make it a daily client rather than a demo. Administrators run the postal side from the same panel: add domains and generate DKIM keys, follow the DNS record checklist the system verifies for you, create mailboxes, set delivery aliases and catch-all addresses, and audit every message on the server. Accounts sign in with passwords or OAuth single sign-on, protected by TOTP two-factor codes and bot checks, while permission groups cap attachment size, sending rate, and mailbox count per user. Users can even request their own mailbox and wait for approval instead of filing a ticket. For programs, an Open API with bearer tokens sends mail idempotently and reports delivered, bounced, complained, rejected, and deferred events back through webhooks. External Gmail and Outlook accounts can be aggregated over IMAP, and a client-configuration page shows every IMAP, POP3, and SMTP setting in one place. A multi-container layout remains for debugging the stack piece by piece. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Kurrier unifies email, calendars, contacts, and file storage in a single web interface that connects to any email provider you already use. The Next.js frontend with Nitro API worker deploys via Docker Compose on PostgreSQL and Redis, delivering a cohesive workspace where IMAP/SMTP mailboxes from Gmail, Outlook, or corporate servers sit alongside transactional providers like AWS SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, and Postmark. Automatic inbox building handles threads, attachments, sent items, and deletion sync through persistent background polling. The CalDAV backend enables full two-way calendar synchronization with iOS, macOS, Android via DAVx5, and Thunderbird, supporting event invitations, RSVP processing through the inbox, timezone-aware scheduling, and contact-aware attendee linking. CardDAV contacts sync bidirectionally across all devices with unified name, avatar, and email resolution. Kurrier Drive provides integrated file storage through WebDAV locally or S3-compatible backends for cloud storage. Multiple identities and domains let you manage several email accounts from different providers in one interface, with fast local search indexing subjects, senders, and content without dependency on external APIs. The API-first architecture exposes clean endpoints for automation and custom integrations. 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.

Two decades of continuous development made Roundcube the standard-bearer of open-source webmail - a PHP IMAP client that gives any mail server a polished, application-like interface in the browser. It connects to whatever IMAP/SMTP stack you run - Dovecot, Postfix, a hosted mailbox - and delivers the full desktop-client experience: drag-and-drop message management, threaded conversation views, full MIME and HTML mail handling, find-as-you-type address book with groups and LDAP connectors, multiple sender identities, full-text search, and spell checking in dozens of languages. The default Elastic skin is genuinely responsive, working as well on a phone as a desktop, and the entire UI is skinnable. The plugin API is where deployments get shaped: managesieve exposes server-side filter management in the UI, enigma brings PGP encryption and signing via GnuPG, markasjunk trains spam filters, zipdownload batches attachments, password lets users change credentials, and attachment_reminder catches the classic forgotten-attachment email - among hundreds of community plugins. Built-in caching keeps large mailboxes fast, IMAP ACLs and shared folders support team setups, and XSS protection is engineered into the rendering pipeline. It scales from a single personal mailbox to unlimited users, backed by MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or SQLite. GPL-licensed with regular security releases.

Running a proper mail server used to mean stitching together half a dozen daemons; maddy folds the whole stack into one binary with one configuration file. It receives mail as your MX, sends as your MTA, stores messages for IMAP clients, and signs and verifies with DKIM, SPF, DMARC, DANE, and MTA-STS so other servers actually trust what you send. The design is composable: checks, modifiers, tables, and delivery targets snap together in the config, so spam scoring, address rewriting, and routing rules read like a pipeline instead of a pile of interlocking config files. Outbound mail queues with retries and backoff, inbound delivery lands in IMAP storage backed by SQLite or PostgreSQL, and a built-in ACME client keeps TLS certificates renewed, including DNS-01 providers. Milter support lets existing filters join the pipeline, authentication spans SASL mechanisms and Dovecot delegation, and Prometheus metrics watch queue length and delivery health from your usual dashboards. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

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.