imap-backup VS Mailcow

Compare imap-backup vs Mailcow and see what are their differences.

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imap-backup Mailcow
17 180
1,298 7,931
- 3.6%
9.6 9.5
17 days ago 3 days ago
Ruby JavaScript
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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imap-backup

Posts with mentions or reviews of imap-backup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-05.

Mailcow

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mailcow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing imap-backup and Mailcow you can also consider the following projects:

ImapSync - Imapsync is an IMAP transfers tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP is one of the three current standard protocols to access mailboxes, the two others are POP3 and HTTP with webmails, webmails are often tied to an IMAP server. Upstream website is

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.

Oxidized - Oxidized is a network device configuration backup tool. It's a RANCID replacement!

Mailu - Insular email distribution - mail server as Docker images

imapfw - imapfw (IMAP/mail framework)

iRedMail

offlineimap - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python2) [LEGACY: move to offlineimap3]

modoboa - Mail hosting made simple

lieer - Fast email-fetching and sending and two-way tag synchronization between notmuch and GMail

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]

imapbackup - A Python script for incremental backups of IMAP mailboxes

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