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13 self-hosted Migadu alternatives

Hosted email service for custom domains providing SMTP/IMAP access, webmail, aliases, forwarding, and administrative controls. Focuses on domain-based mail hosting with configurable aliases/forwards and a pricing model not tied to per-mailbox counts.

Alternatives to Migadu

Mail-in-a-Box is a one-click mail server appliance for Ubuntu, bundling SMTP/IMAP, webmail, DNS, TLS automation, backups, and an admin control panel.

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15.4k stars1.5k forksCC0-1.0last commit Actively maintained

Mailu is a full-featured mail server distributed as Docker images, providing SMTP/IMAP/POP3, webmail, administration UI, and built-in security and anti-spam features.

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7.4k stars990 forkslast commit Actively maintained

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All-in-one secure mail server with SMTP, IMAP, webmail, automatic TLS (ACME), and built-in SPF/DKIM/DMARC plus junk filtering for low-maintenance domains.

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5.8k stars210 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Modoboa is an open source mail server management platform with a modern web UI, integrating Postfix and Dovecot with admin tools, webmail, calendar, and address book.

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3.5k stars476 forksISClast commit Actively maintained

A Bash script that auto-implements a full mail server (Postfix, Dovecot, DKIM, SpamAssassin) with TLS and PAM-based logins on Debian/Ubuntu.

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2.2k stars340 forksGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down

WildDuck is a horizontally scalable IMAP/POP3 mail server that stores all mail in MongoDB, runs stateless Node.js workers, and provides a REST API for full server control.

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2.1k stars276 forksEUPL-1.2last commit Actively maintained

Automated open-source mail server installer bundling Postfix, Dovecot, webmail, anti-spam/antivirus and LDAP/SQL backends for mainstream Linux/BSD.

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1.8k stars259 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

High-performance, standards-compliant IMAP/POP3/LMTP server with flexible authentication, extensible plugin system (Lua, Sieve) and OpenSSL TLS support.

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1.2k stars345 forkslast commit Actively maintained

What replacing Migadu actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 9 of 13 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, CC0-1.0, ISC, GPL-3.0, EUPL-1.2. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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