AnsiMail VS Mail-in-a-Box

Compare AnsiMail vs Mail-in-a-Box and see what are their differences.

Mail-in-a-Box

Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a box. (by mail-in-a-box)
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AnsiMail Mail-in-a-Box
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153 13,286
0.0% 1.1%
0.0 8.8
over 1 year ago 5 days ago
Jinja Python
ISC License Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
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AnsiMail

Posts with mentions or reviews of AnsiMail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-29.
  • Purelymail: Cheap, No-Nonsense Email
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2022
    I like their pricing structure for bulk accounts. What I'd absolutely love to see is more email services that are Protonmail compatible, utilizing WKD or whatever it they need. Here's something to look at anyway https://github.com/Excision-Mail/Excision-Mail
  • Google made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 May 2021
    It's not trivial, but it's doable.

    Excision Mail which runs on OpenBSD hits the majority of what you need technically. https://github.com/Excision-Mail/Excision-Mail

    The bigger problem is finding a hosting provider that hasn't had their entire space blacklisted.

    For that, you're likely going to have to pick a "responsible" provider, have a couple of rounds of back and forth with them to prove you're neither an idiot nor a spammer, and ask them to manually open the port for you. And they're going to demand something that will tie to identity.

Mail-in-a-Box

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mail-in-a-Box. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AnsiMail and Mail-in-a-Box you can also consider the following projects:

SimpleLogin - The SimpleLogin back-end and web app

Mailcow - mailcow: dockerized - 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕

modoboa - Mail hosting made simple

wildduck - Opinionated email server

iRedMail

Mailu - Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images

docker-mailserver - A fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) using Docker. [Moved to: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver]

iRedMail - Full-featured, open source mail server solution for mainstream Linux/BSD distributions.