Top 12 Dovecot Open-Source Projects

docker-mailserver

92 13,339 9.4 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.

Mailcow

181 7,963 9.4 JavaScript

mailcow: dockerized - 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕

Project mention: Docker Compose: version` is obsolete warning | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-29

InfluxDB

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hestiacp

5 3,039 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

modoboa

4 2,911 9.1 Python

Mail hosting made simple
homebox

0 435 9.3 Shell

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

2 244 8.5 Python

An installer for Modoboa

Project mention: Modoboa Failed | /r/selfhosted | 2023-05-09

AnsiMail

2 153 0.0 Jinja

Fullstack, security focused, personal mail server based on OpenSMTPD for OpenBSD
SaaSHub

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mailserver

1 124 4.1 Shell

Simple and full-featured mail server using Docker (by mailserver2)
webadmin

0 51 0.0 JavaScript

SophiMail Webadmin and Dashboard
fts-elastic

2 25 0.0 C

ElasticSearch FTS implementation for the Dovecot mail server

Project mention: Archiving Email with EDMS | /r/selfhosted | 2023-05-15

Currently I move and store all my emails in a dovecot instance with fts-elastic and use elasticsearch to search, the ingest plugin lets me search inside most attached documents as well.

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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Dovecot projects? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	docker-mailserver	13,339
2	Mailcow	7,963
3	hestiacp	3,039
4	modoboa	2,911
5	homebox	435
6	modoboa-installer	244
7	AnsiMail	153
8	mailserver	124
9	webadmin	51
10	fts-elastic	25
11	SaorTech-cloud-services	25
12	sh	13