Maildrop | Dovecot | |
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1 | 10 | |
738 | 896 | |
- | 1.3% | |
0.0 | 9.7 | |
- | 10 days ago | |
CSS | C | |
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Maildrop
Posts with mentions or reviews of Maildrop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-26.
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CSS Deep
m242/maildrop - MailDrop is an open-source, scalable, high-performance version of Mailinator.
Dovecot
Posts with mentions or reviews of Dovecot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.
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My collection of Ansible roles for self-hosting everything with Rocky Linux and FreeIPA
Mail server using Postfix, Dovecot, and Rspamd
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Suggestions for long term email storage
Eventually I will set up Dovecot as a local IMAP server, pointing to that Maildir. When I've done this before, I've set up a self-signed certificate so Apple Mail wouldn't complain.
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postfix smtp relay add users
You might want to use dovecot for this if I understandyou correctly
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How to set up an outgoing mail server?
If you really want to try it (and keep it up to date for security fixes, check and handle any relay issues or possible spam attackers) then look at Dovecot or Kerio
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The easiest way to fetch mail and serve it with IMAP on my LAN?
An IMAP server. I have a strong preference for dovecot for this.
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Mail-Client with Web Interface
I'd do it with a local IMAP server in conjunction with a webmail client that connects to it. Dovecot is a fantastic and easy to use IMAP server. Webmail clients are a pretty personal thing, but the last time I used Roundcube it seemed pretty good.
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Mailserver
For the record, I'm using dovecot (https://www.dovecot.org/) for IMAP and Haraka (https://haraka.github.io/) for SMTP.
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Separating the email server
self hosting mail is always a pain and can take up a lot of support time and you really need to know your stuff. I always use Plesk witch configures Dovecot. But if there is anyway you can push them to use an external service you should do that.
- Securecoding.txt (Devocot)
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Mail server
I run a mail server on DigitalOcean for a few domains using a fairly standard FreeBSD setup running dovecot and postfix. If you're set up your preferred stack on another hosting provider before, you're aware of all the pitfalls:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Maildrop and Dovecot you can also consider the following projects:
Haraka - A fast, highly extensible, and event driven SMTP server
Exim - Exim Mail Transport Agent - source, testsuite and documentation
OpenSMTPD - This is official OpenSMTPD Portable repository. Forks, pull requests and other contributions are welcome!
Postal - 📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail
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.
Piler
MailCatcher - Catches mail and serves it through a dream.