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21 Best Free and Open Source Email Servers

November 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

Here’s our verdict on free and open source email servers. We recommend Exim, OpenSMTPD, mox, DBMail, WildDuck, and Stalwart.

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Haraka – extensible SMTP server

May 26, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Haraka is an extensible SMTP server with a plugin framework, mail filtering, authentication, outbound queueing, and custom delivery routes.

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maddy – composable all-in-one mail server

May 25, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

maddy combines SMTP delivery, IMAP mail storage, authentication, flexible routing, TLS management, and email security in one server.

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Mail-in-a-Box – self-hosted email server solution

May 24, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Mail-in-a-Box automates self-hosted email with webmail, SMTP, IMAP, calendar and contact syncing, DNS management, and backups.

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Email

Mailu – self-hosted mail server stack

May 23, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Mailu is a self-hosted mail server stack offering SMTP, IMAP, webmail, account administration, spam filtering, and email security tools.

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Modoboa – mail hosting and management platform

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

Modoboa provides web-based email hosting administration, webmail, domain management, Sieve filters, traffic reports, and integration tools.

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Email

Stalwart – all-in-one mail and collaboration server

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Stalwart is an all-in-one mail and collaboration server with SMTP, IMAP, JMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV, filtering and web administration.

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dma – compact mail transfer agent

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

dma is a compact mail transfer agent for local submission and outbound delivery, with SMTP authentication, TLS and simple configuration.

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Email

WildDuck – scalable IMAP and POP3 email server

August 12, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

WildDuck is a scalable IMAP and POP3 server with MongoDB storage, REST API management, strong authentication and Unicode email support.

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mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server

August 11, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

mox is a self-hosted email server combining SMTP, IMAP, webmail, spam filtering, TLS automation, and modern mail security standards.

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Email

Sendmail – configurable mail transfer agent

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Sendmail is a configurable mail transfer agent with flexible routing, SMTP authentication, TLS, policy controls and mail filtering.

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Email

qmail – modern SMTP server

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

qmail is an Internet Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). It was written as a more secure replacement for the popular Sendmail program.

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chasquid – SMTP server focused on simplicity and security

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

chasquid is an SMTP mail server for smaller installations, with virtual domains, secure transport, address aliases, monitoring, and filters.

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Citadel – email and groupware server

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Citadel is an email and groupware server with SMTP, IMAP, POP3, calendars, contacts, web access, mailing lists and collaboration tools.

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Email

Dovecot – secure IMAP and POP3 server

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Dovecot is a secure, high-performance IMAP and POP3 server with authentication, mailbox indexing, Sieve filtering and flexible storage.

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Email

Cyrus IMAP – email, contacts and calendar server

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Cyrus IMAP is a scalable email, contacts and calendar server with IMAP, JMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, replication, quotas and access controls.

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Courier – integrated mail and groupware server

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Courier is an integrated mail server providing ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, mailing lists, authentication and Maildir-based message storage.

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Email

Postfix – secure and widely deployed mail transfer agent

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Postfix is a secure and widely deployed mail transfer agent with flexible routing, TLS, SMTP authentication, filtering and policy controls.

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Zimbra – email and collaboration server

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Zimbra is a collaboration server combining email, calendars, contacts, webmail and administration with open source components.

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DBMail – scalable database-backed email server

October 31, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

DBMail stores email and account data in SQL databases, providing scalable IMAP, POP3 and LMTP services without filesystem mailboxes.

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