Top 6 Shell Dovecot Projects

docker-mailserver

92 13,292 9.5 Shell

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

Project mention: Alternative to MailCow | /r/selfhosted | 2023-06-04

I can recommend Docker mailserver (it also works with Podman). It is already pretty lightweight but you can even make it lighter and it has an active community as well as regular updates.

hestiacp

5 3,008 9.7 Shell

Hestia Control Panel | A lightweight and powerful control panel for the modern web.

Project mention: Domain names management systems | /r/sysadmin | 2023-05-14

There's a fork of that too: https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
homebox

0 434 9.2 Shell

A set of ansible scripts to build a personal mail server / private cloud / etc. (by progmaticltd)
mailserver

1 124 4.1 Shell

Simple and full-featured mail server using Docker (by mailserver2)
SaorTech-cloud-services

1 25 0.0 Shell

A range of scripts to provision and configure open source cloud services.
sh

1 13 8.1 Shell

A set of bash shell scripts to setup and manage a simple Mail, Web and DNS server using either Ubuntu, Manjaro, Alpine or Debian (WIP) (by markc)

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).