Postal VS mailrise

Compare Postal vs mailrise and see what are their differences.

Postal

📮 A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail (by postalserver)

mailrise

An SMTP gateway for Apprise notifications. (by YoRyan)
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Postal mailrise
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14,019 606
3.4% -
9.6 6.6
7 days ago 17 days ago
Ruby Python
MIT License MIT License
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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.

mailrise

Posts with mentions or reviews of mailrise. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.
  • Self hosted alternative to email alerts?
    6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 29 Jun 2023
    I use mailrise which hosts a private SMTP gateway for Apprise notifications.
  • SMTP server
    4 projects | /r/homelab | 26 May 2023
  • Self Hosted E-mail - Way to push notifications to iOS devices?
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 12 Apr 2023
    Link to the repo: https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise
  • Junction: SMTP to Apprise
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 21 Feb 2023
    This project is similar to and inspired by Mailrise. I wanted a little more configuration than was supported by Mailrise, so decided to create my own option.
  • Got pfSense notifications to push to gotify!
    3 projects | /r/PFSENSE | 1 Feb 2023
    FYI, a similar system can be achieved with https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise + https://github.com/caronc/apprise, but requires more setup
  • what is your preferred notification channel?
    8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 22 Nov 2022
    For stuff that only supports email, I used mailrise. It's a mail gateway that uses apprise to convert emails to notifications. I ended up having to build this myself from source because there was a bug in apprise involving markdown and long messages in discord that isn't in the released apprise builds. Hopefully that'll get updated soon so you can use the official docker images.
    8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 22 Nov 2022
    I ended up having to build mailrise from source so I could change it to use the nightly build of apprise instead of version 1.1 (which still had the bug). I actually just went back and tested that apprise 1.2 seems to be splitting both markdown and text messages properly for discord. I'll have to build an updated mailrise docker image and try again there. I'll file an issue if I run into problems.
  • Linux system/apps notifications to Gotify server
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 Nov 2022
    Take a look at mailrise. It is an SMTP gateway for apprise so it supports 60+ platforms including Gotify. Can easily change providers by updating the config file and restarting. Can send to one or multiple platforms per email address you create. Can setup one email address per app if you want to send to different channels.
  • Setup Linux server to send email
    2 projects | /r/HomeServer | 8 Nov 2022
    The following projects, Mailrise and Apprise, on Github look like a better solution for method #4 than my Exim4 install and one-off script.
  • Wanting to get away from email notifications for alerts, uptime and services.
    4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Oct 2022
    Look at mailrise (an SMTP gateway for apprise notifications). Still configure all of you apps to use email addresses defined in mailrise and to send them to mailrise. Within the mailrise config file, setup one or many emails that in turn send to one or multiple sources.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

MailHog - Web and API based SMTP testing

apprise-api - A lightweight REST framework that wraps the Apprise Notification Library

apprise - Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!

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

Courier MTA - Courier Mail Server

MailCatcher - Catches mail and serves it through a dream.

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

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

smtp2http - A tiny software that receive a smtp request (email) and send it to the specified webhook as a http post request