Best Mail Servers - Page 2

Compare the Top Mail Servers as of October 2026 - Page 2

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    Poste.io

    Poste.io

    analogic

    You can have a fully functional mail server installed in a few minutes, mostly waiting for scripts to do the work. The whole package is designed with reasonable defaults to get you up and running quickly, without having to know the internals and without making decisions that could break the email system. User data and configuration is strictly separated from binaries. User database is stored in SQLite database - in file. This makes Poste.io fully compatible with external storage. Migration, backups or updates are therefore very easy and mostly consist of files manipulation. Poste.io has been built from the ground up with security in mind. Internet history is littered with painful security incidents, so we traded old email client compatibility and insecure authentication methods for features that meet today's for features that meet modern security requirements.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Citadel

    Citadel

    Citadel

    Email, collaboration, groupware, and content management - up and running in minutes, on your own hardware, or in the cloud. Citadel is easy, versatile, and powerful, thanks to its exclusive room-based architecture. No other platform seamlessly combines so many different features using this familiar and consistent metaphor. Citadel is 100% open source software using the GNU General Public License. It's not a crippled, cut-down version of some expensive "enterprise" edition. The software you download here is the very best available, and it's all free software.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Mailtraq

    Mailtraq

    Mailtraq

    Mailtraq Professional mail server software is the complete email server for business. It does everything you need at a great price and without hassles. Mailtraq is the ideal Microsoft Exchange Alternative: easy to deploy and simple to manage. Low license cost, no server-CALs, and stability in operation make Mailtraq email server software the choice for all SMB and SOHO businesses. Email is at the heart of your company or organization, and where those messages are stored is of vital importance to the long-term health of your firm. There is a degree of hassle and expense involved in running your own email server but it gives you complete physical control over who has access to your email. If you use your ISP's service then their system administrators can see and read your messages. Similarly, if you use a SAAS supplier for a hosted email service, and if you use a Cloud provider you not only don't know who is reading your email, but don't even know where in the world it is kept.
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    Kopano

    Kopano

    Kopano

    We provide you with your digitally sovereign solution to keep track of your e-mails and calendars, to organize yourself with tasks or to stay in contact with team colleagues via video meeting. Kopano Groupware is an e-mail and calendaring solution, which can be operated digitally sovereign. Its functionality is comparable to that of Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. Kopano Groupware installations can be operated with more than 100,000 users. Kopano Groupware is an e-mail and calendar server that provides users with their daily communication and organizational data on all devices and connects teams. Data can be jointly edited in public folders or shared with others from your own inbox.
    Starting Price: $17 per year
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    Alinto

    Alinto

    Alinto

    Alinto was born in 2000 as a result of Philippe Gilbert’s vision, whose risk paid off! Bringing together a team of passionate developers and experts in cloud messaging, he innovated the sector with the deployment of the first messaging platform, with a Cloud based email solution in Europe, and the first web based email accessible from a mobile phone. We then became a major player in the European digital arena. As a software mail server provider, our R&D, Marketing and Support teams are committed to adopt an approach focused on availability and proximity. In fact, this is much more than an electronic communication solution, as personalized care and solutions are adapted to your real requirements and needs. Besides, our experts are always available to help. Whether you’re a telecom operator, an internet service provider or an IT specialist, we are here for you.
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    Halon

    Halon

    Halon

    Halon reinvents email infrastructure for today’s fast-moving, high-volume world. Their solutions- Halon Engage, Halon Protect, and Halon Classify offer a fully composable platform that empowers you to define, control, and automate every aspect of your email infrastructure stack with intelligence built in. Ideal For: - Enterprises or platforms sending high volumes of transactional, marketing, or lifecycle emails - Email service providers (ESPs) looking for more control and agility - Teams who want real-time visibility, proactive delivery, and the ability to evolve on their own terms Benefits: - Develop features 10x faster - Reduce manual triage - Decrease traffic jams - Reduce escalations - Keep your email operations teams happier - Supercharge client satisfaction - Increase your top line and grow your business
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    Exim

    Exim

    Exim

    Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used in Unixllike operating systems. The first version was written in 1995 by Philip Hazel for use in the University of Cambridge Computing Service's e-mail systems. Exim is distributed under the GPL, and therefore is free to download, use and modify. Exim somewhat resembles Smail 3, but it has diverged and now surpasses it in user friendliness and flexibility. They both follow the Sendmail design model where a single main binary controls all the facilities of the MTA. This monolithic design is considered by some to be inherently less secure and slower, but despite this, Exim's security record is much better than Sendmail and comparable with Qmail and Postfix, as is its speed. In advanced areas such as queue handling, address routing and testing, it exhibits excellent performance. Exim doesn't have a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to help you configure it, but some Linux distributions add one.
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    WinGate

    WinGate

    WinGate

    WinGate Proxy Server is a highly capable HTTP Proxy server, SOCKS server, integrated Internet gateway and communications server designed to meet the access control, security and communications needs of today's businesses. In addition to a comprehensive range of features, WinGate Proxy Server's license options provide you the flexibility to match your needs to your budget, whether you need to manage an enterprise, small business, or home network. WinGate Proxy Server will share most types of Internet connection, allowing multiple users to simultaneously surf the web, retrieve their email, or use other internet programs, as if they were directly connected to the Internet. Whether it is a simple dialup modem or high speed fibre, WinGate Proxy Server can help to make the most out of the connection. WinGate Proxy Server supports a wide variety of Internet protocols, allowing applications such as Web browsers, messaging software, FTP and SSL.
    Starting Price: $109.95 one-time payment
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    Dovecot Pro

    Dovecot Pro

    Open-Xchange

    Dovecot Pro is a full-service email platform that delivers dynamic scalability, high performance, efficient utilization of hardware, and outstanding support to the world’s largest Telcos, ISP's, and Hosters. With a marketshare of 76% of installed email backends, customers trust the performance of Dovecot Pro. Efficient hardware utilization and advanced monitoring tools for statistics and administration reduce ownership costs and save time and maintenance costs. In addition, Dovecot Pro scales up and out to hundreds of servers and millions of users and multiple physical sites. Its stateless native architecture offers maximum flexibility as each major component can be deployed on its own dedicated node. Dovecot Pro provides industry-leading support for all email standards necessary to provide both Mail Delivery Agent functionality (via LMTP and Sieve), and to facilitate mail retrieval by mail clients (via IMAP and POP3).
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    Courier

    Courier

    Double Precision, Inc.

    The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework. Individual components can be enabled or disabled at will. The Courier mail server now implements basic web-based calendaring and scheduling services integrated in the webmail module. Advanced groupware calendaring services will follow soon. The Courier mail server's source code should compile on most POSIX-based operating systems based on Linux, and BSD-derived kernels. The Courier mail server should also compile on Solaris and AIX, with some help from Sun's or IBM's freeware add-on tools for their respective operating systems. The Courier mail server evolved out of several related projects, that merged together (more on that later). The Courier mail server implements SMTP extensions for mailing list management.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Cyrus IMAP

    Cyrus IMAP

    The Cyrus Team

    Cyrus IMAP is an email, contacts and calendar server. Cyrus is free and open source. Features: Speed Security Efficiency Search CardDAV and CalDAV support Robust data storage Replication Scalable for large installations Flexible filtering support through Sieve Supports antivirus and antispam toolkits Handles deliverability: SPF, DKIM, DMARC Extensive authentication options, through Cyrus SASL JMAP support Long list of supported standards
    Starting Price: Free
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    qmail

    qmail

    qmail

    qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. Security isn't just a goal, but an absolute requirement. Mail delivery is critical for users; it cannot be turned off, so it must be completely secure. qmail's straight-paper-path philosophy guarantees that a message once accepted into the system, will never be lost. qmail also optionally supports maildir, a new, super-reliable user mailbox format. Maildirs, unlike mbox files and mh folders, won't be corrupted if the system crashes during delivery. Even better, not only can a user safely read his mail over NFS, but any number of NFS clients can deliver mail to him at the same time. qmail is vastly smaller than any other Internet MTA. Other MTAs have separate forwarding, aliasing, and mailing list mechanisms. qmail has one simple forwarding mechanism that lets users handle their own mailing lists.
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    Mercury Mail Transport System
    Mail from the outside world is received by Mercury and placed in the addressee's mailbox, where the user can access it at any later point. Messages sent by local users to the outside world are passed to Mercury, which then takes whatever steps are necessary to deliver them, removing the burden from the user's workstation and allowing him to continue with other work. If you connect using a dialup connection, then only the mail server needs to be able to access that connection. Your workstations do not need their own modems or Internet accounts. The mail server can continue processing mail even when the client workstations are turned off, allowing functions that depend on a continuously available service, such as automatic replies and auto-forwarding.
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    Oracle Communications Messaging Server
    Oracle Communications Messaging Server is a standards-based Internet messaging server designed for high-capacity, reliable message handling for service providers and their customers. Messaging Server provides support for several email protocols and can manage embedded text, sound, graphics, video files, and other files and formats.
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    OpenText FirstClass
    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we all live and work. The rise in remote working has resulted in a need for even greater communication, collaboration and flexibility. OpenText™ FirstClass® is a powerful collaboration solution that drives teamwork, improves communication, makes people and information easily accessible from any mobile device, and ensures team members are connected within the organization. FirstClass is a fully integrated solution that is cost-effective, flexible and easy to administer. It empowers individuals and teams to work together toward a common goal, with a shared sense of purpose and new ways to participate. Designed to support collaboration, FirstClass offers easy and secure communication, mobile access, personalization, integration with other applications, and safe, reliable archiving.
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    CommuniGate Pro

    CommuniGate Pro

    CommuniGate Software

    Our end to end Unified Communications technology begins with the platform CommuniGate Pro. The system enables large scale Unified Communications with open API’s for integration into business applications. CommuniGate Pro scales dynamically to 100’s of millions of accounts. Ideally suitable for “Nation” scale alert systems, multimodal communications within web applications, or compartmentalized high-security network topologies. However, big scale does not mean trade-offs on efficiency or reliability. The platform is extremely agile for resilient applications in military or embedded environments. CommuniGate Pro is approved for governmental agency use in Europe and in the USA. Military, transportation and research center use is legendary for mind bending stability with uptimes like VMS. CommuniGate Pro enables banks to deploy mail to millions of clients for online self care while respecting compliance regulations. The signaling features of the server can be deployed in a hybrid system.
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    GMS (Gordano Messaging Suite)
    You're a growing business, and you need to stay connected: you need email. But you're stretched thin, facing the every day challenges. You need help. You have come to the right place. GMS has been around since the beginning of email. We have got plenty of experience in understanding our customers and providing what they need. We're like you: we care about your business. We keep it simple: we don't like jargon, and we don't like confusion. With GMS the message is clear: the ideal email solution for small businesses, with all the support you could ever want. Once part of the Cloud, businesses and individuals no longer have to worry about power requirements, space or software updates. Cloud computing negates the need for physical storage and maintenance, meaning the total cost of ownership is significantly lower.
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    ClearOS

    ClearOS

    ClearCenter

    Applications and an operating system come with your computer, tablet, and phone. So, why not on your server? HPE is redefining the small business server by offering ClearOS with HPE ProLiant servers. ClearOS is a simple, open, and affordable operating system with an intuitive graphical web-based user interface and an application marketplace with over 100 apps to choose from, with more being added every day. Leveraging open source software, you decide what applications you need and only pay for the applications and support you want. HPE and ClearCenter are making it easy for small, home, remote, and branch offices to have a server ready to use, out of the box, at no additional cost. HPE ProLiant integrated with ClearOS offers a simple, affordable, and secure experience. Building the IT solution that is just right for you has never been easier.
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    Grace Mail

    Grace Mail

    Profit Visions s.r.o. (LINK-V)

    Grace Mail is email server software for teams that want control over their email infrastructure. It can be licensed as self-hosted software running on the customer's Linux hardware, or provided as a managed dedicated server operated by LINK-V. The product supports SMTP and IMAP and includes an administration console for managing mailboxes, domains and mail operations. Its two deployment approaches support organizations that want to operate their own server as well as teams that prefer the vendor to operate a dedicated server. Grace Mail is aimed at freelancers, small businesses and technical teams seeking company email on a dedicated or self-hosted server. The software is built and maintained by Profit Visions, and deployment, licensing, migration and support arrangements are agreed with each customer. Customers can assess the self-hosted or managed arrangement against their infrastructure preferences and operational responsibilities.