Compare the Top Mail Servers for Cloud as of January 2026

What are Mail Servers for Cloud?

A mail server facilitates the sending and receiving of emails. It acts as an intermediary between email senders and receivers, providing a secure communication channel for emails to be stored and routed. Mail servers provide features such as spam filtering, antivirus scanning, storage limits for individual users, message forwarding rules and other services. They are often used by businesses to securely manage their communications with employees, customers and partners. Compare and read user reviews of the best Mail Servers for Cloud currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    MDaemon Email Server

    MDaemon Email Server

    MDaemon Technologies

    The MDaemon Email Server was one of the first Microsoft Exchange alternatives offered to businesses around the world. It has been developed with the ongoing input from IT professionals seeking an easy-to-use, reliable, and secure mail server that does not require expensive administration or impose high per-user costs. It simplifies messaging and collaboration with a focus on security and privacy, an intuitive, user-friendly web mail design and by offering administrators Mobile Device Management, Business Instant Messaging, Document Sharing, and other enterprise-class features that can be managed with minimal support. MDaemon Email Server supports IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 protocols, and features include: integrated webmail with IM and document sharing, Outlook support, compromised password alerts, color-coded log files for quick and easy troubleshooting, customizable email policy setting to fit your unique network environment, Mobile Device Management, Account Hijack Detection, and more.
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    Starting Price: $360 per year
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    Microsoft Exchange
    Work smarter with business-class email and calendaring. Exchange helps you collaborate on your critical documents and gives you a focused inbox that prioritizes important messages and adapts to your work style, so you can get more done–faster. Get access to a more personalized inbox with helpful features and a smarter, more organized way to view and interact with email. Search enhancements give you faster and more complete results. With Add-ins, get powerful customization and extensibility, which connect you to modern services and internal line-of-business applications. Organize your time with a calendaring system that goes beyond basic scheduling of appointments and commitments. Automatically capture events from email such as flights and hotel reservations, and get suggestions about where to meet based on your location. Microsoft Exchange Online offers a hosted email service for business. Exchange Online helps protect your information with advanced capabilities.
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    KumoMTA

    KumoMTA

    Kumo Corp

    KumoMTA is an Open-Source, enterprise-grade email message transfer agent (MTA) software for sending high-volume, business-critical emails. KumoMTA is typically chosen by high-volume email users looking to replace PowerMTA, Momentum, or traditional Open Source MTAs. KumoMTA offers high-performance message relay to the tune of millions of messages per hour per server, combined with extreme flexibility and configurability through its use of a Lua scripting engine for configuration and message management. For more information on KumoMTA see our Sourceforge project page.
    Starting Price: $0
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    XgenPlus

    XgenPlus

    Bharat Sync Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

    XgenPlus is a next-generation, feature-rich, and highly secure email solution designed to meet the growing communication needs of businesses, enterprises, and individuals. Developed by Bharat Sync Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Xgen Email stands out as the first email service in the world to support Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), enabling users to create email addresses in multiple Indian languages such as Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, and Urdu. With cutting-edge security features, real-time tracking, advanced collaboration tools, and seamless mobile and desktop integration, Xgen Email ensures that users get the most efficient, private, and productive email experience. Whether you're a startup, a large enterprise, or an individual professional, Xgen Email is the best choice for a secure, smart, and efficient email solution.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Kingmailer

    Kingmailer

    KingSMTP.com

    KingSMTP.com (formerly known as Kingmailer.co, founded in 2017) is a Transactional SMTP service provider. It’s designed to help businesses reliably send emails such as order confirmations, password resets, or notifications, but it’s not intended for mass email campaigns or marketing.
    Starting Price: $0 per month
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    SmarterMail

    SmarterMail

    SmarterTools

    SmarterMail is the ideal Microsoft Exchange alternative. It’s the only business email server on the market that offers native support for Exchange protocols: MAPI, EWS, and EAS, without requiring any additional software or plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook or other desktop or mobile clients. It delivers all the features of Exchange at a fraction of the cost. SmarterMail also includes audio/video group chat and Online Meetings for team collaboration at no extra charge. Its newest feature, the SmarterMail Marketplace, enables seamless integration with platforms like OnlyOffice, Collabora, and AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Available for both Windows and Linux, SmarterMail has lower hardware requirements, superior stability, and reduced maintenance costs. It’s the perfect solution for businesses of any size or industry seeking Exchange-level functionality, without the high costs.
    Starting Price: $500.00/one-time
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    Axigen

    Axigen

    Axigen Messaging

    Offer your customers secure, business-level email hosting with various value added services. An excellent solution for SPs, suitable for thousands to millions of users. Acquire new customers by offering a premium email server solution with a high degree of flexibility, allowing you to automate it within your existing infrastructure. Manage your email, organize and share calendars, sync your mobile devices, all based on a secure and powerful mail server. The perfect answer for businesses of all sizes. Axigen is quite knowledgeable, out of the many hats it wears, take a peek inside and choose what fits you. Manage your email and get stuff done easily with calendars, tasks or notes. Enjoy desktop usability in your browser via keyboard navigation and shortcuts, drag-and-drop, "live" email list view, frequent folders, email filters, out-of-office messages, individual blacklist / whitelist.
    Starting Price: $266 per year
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    Kolab Now

    Kolab Now

    Apheleia IT AG

    Secure and private email, calendars and more. 100% Free & Open Source Software (FOSS). Open standards and formats used for all storage and communication. No vendor lock-in. All data stored under Swiss jurisdiction. User data never transmitted to any third party without explicit consent. GDPR, HIPAA and PCI compliant. Built secure from the ground up. Supports perfect forward secrecy (PFS). End-to-end encryption available. No back doors. Our documentation contains answers to most frequently asked questions and much more. Are you looking for an instant answer to your question or a quick solution for your problem, our Knowledgebase is where you will likely find it. If you can’t find the answer in our documentation, you can always contact support.
    Starting Price: $9.90 per month
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    IceWarp

    IceWarp

    IceWarp

    The only office rule is, there is no office. Business email, TeamChat for project teamwork, real-time office document collaboration and online meetings. All in our secure cloud and for half the usual cost. Chat in teams organized around projects, upload files, mention coworkers, comment on posted emails, pin important posts. Integration with email enables sharing received messages directly to TeamChat room for colleagues‘ attention. Skyrocket your office work effectivity with Desktop Client and Desktop Office documents on Windows as well as Linux devices. Get the complete Suite, or choose only the app you need.
    Starting Price: $312.00/year/user
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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