Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server

• maddy

  30 4,650 8.0 Go

  ✉️ Composable all-in-one mail server.

There are some useful protocol extensions supported but some other important ones are missing (e.g. CONDSTORE).

There are no known issues with popular clients but performance may be a bit rough. Both due to missing extensions and storage implementation quality e.g. SEARCH may get slow for large inboxes.

[1] https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy/issues/188

• litestream

  165 9,964 7.5 Go

  Streaming replication for SQLite.

I used to run my own mail, but gave up due to the risk of me screwing up backups.

Maddy + https://litestream.io/ might be simple enough to get right.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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.

  

• 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.

  

Personally i use a mail server that's preconfigured and lives inside of a Docker container with all of the dependencies that it needs: https://hub.docker.com/r/mailserver/docker-mailserver ( GitHub: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver )

It is pretty awesome to see new projects that try to improve the user experience for the system admins, for example, the Caddy web server and now the Maddy mail server. I'm not sure whether i'd have been able to set up a mail server the "old fashioned way", seemingly in line with the concerns of the other people here who have tried that more extensively. Somehow, while e-mail is super widespread and works decently for getting text information from place A to place B, it also feels a tad overcomplicated (the different components for sending/receiving mail, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, the sad need for anti virus scanning, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, the similarly sad need for anti spam protection).

That said, the containerized solution above has also worked nicely for me - i'll still probably use GMail/other hosted solutions for personal e-mail stuff and communication, but right now i've already switched over to using my own mail server for all of the automated e-mails that i need, such as from SonarQube and Zabbix, as well as GitLab.

• zrepl

  22 895 6.8 Go

  One-stop ZFS backup & replication solution

  

• sanoid

  118 2,872 7.1 Perl

  These are policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage. (Btrfs support plans are shelved unless and until btrfs becomes reliable.)

• Cypht

  16 911 9.5 PHP

  Cypht: Lightweight Open Source webmail written in PHP and JavaScript

  

• Roundcube

  35 5,501 9.5 PHP

  The Roundcube Webmail suite

  

I imagine this comes down to personal preference a lot, but I strongly prefer Roundcube over Gmail. They have improved a lot over the past years, if you have some preconceptions.

But then I also very much prefer a hierarchical/directory tree approach to organizing e-mail than labels&search as Gmail does it.

More similar UX-philosophy can be found in Mailpile[1] and Cypht[2]. Both still have decent amount of moving parts but are continuously progressing.

[0]: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Mailpile

  10 8,782 4.0 Python

  A free & open modern, fast email client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features

  

• chasquid

  12 845 7.8 Go

  SMTP (email) server with a focus on simplicity, security, and ease of operation [mirror]

Maddy is fantastic -- for greater flexibility/ease of deployment, you can pre-provision your DKIM keys as well. Maddy also works wonderfully when combined with other technologies, it's nice, simple and light.

It works great with Haraka[0] on the outside proxying email to maddy instances on the inside. I've also combined it with SES provisioned with Pulumi + k8s[1] (for those on AWS), which is a little bit more involved but is what I use on projects now.

Another entry in this space is chasquid[2] but I've only used/can recommend maddy.

[0]: https://haraka.github.io

[1]: https://www.vadosware.io/post/setting-up-ses-with-pulumi/

[2]: https://github.com/albertito/chasquid

• Haraka

  16 4,824 7.5 JavaScript

  A fast, highly extensible, and event driven SMTP server

  

Maddy is fantastic -- for greater flexibility/ease of deployment, you can pre-provision your DKIM keys as well. Maddy also works wonderfully when combined with other technologies, it's nice, simple and light.

It works great with Haraka[0] on the outside proxying email to maddy instances on the inside. I've also combined it with SES provisioned with Pulumi + k8s[1] (for those on AWS), which is a little bit more involved but is what I use on projects now.

Another entry in this space is chasquid[2] but I've only used/can recommend maddy.

[0]: https://haraka.github.io

[1]: https://www.vadosware.io/post/setting-up-ses-with-pulumi/

[2]: https://github.com/albertito/chasquid

• yunohost

  117 1,911 9.5 Python

  YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify as much as possible the administration of a server. This repository corresponds to the core code, written mostly in Python and Bash.

  

I’ve been using YunoHost (https://yunohost.org/) for my VPS setup for years, including emails, and the setup is such a breeze. It takes care of everything from certs to spam detection, includes IMAP, and you can even choose you webmail interface.

Suggest a related project