OpenSMTPD VS Postal

Compare OpenSMTPD vs Postal and see what are their differences.

OpenSMTPD

This is official OpenSMTPD Portable repository. Forks, pull requests and other contributions are welcome! (by OpenSMTPD)

Postal

📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail (by postalserver)
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OpenSMTPD Postal
18 42
475 14,153
0.8% 3.5%
9.1 9.5
18 days ago 9 days ago
C Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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OpenSMTPD

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenSMTPD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-09.

Postal

Posts with mentions or reviews of Postal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenSMTPD and Postal you can also consider the following projects:

Exim - Exim Mail Transport Agent - source, testsuite and documentation

docker-mailserver - Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.

postfix - Postfix MTA by Wietse Venema

Haraka - A fast, highly extensible, and event driven SMTP server

MailHog - Web and API based SMTP testing

Qmail - Bind to different local ip addresses depending on the domain part of the sender argument when using `qmail-remote`.

Listmonk - High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app.

Maildrop

formspree - The successor to this repository is actively maintained at https://formspree.io. Its source code is not available

Dovecot - Dovecot mail server

Courier MTA - Courier Mail Server