Audience

Anyone that needs a full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images

About Mailu

Mailu is a simple yet full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images. It is free software (both as in free beer & as in free speech), open to suggestions and external contributions. The project aims at providing people with an easily setup, easily maintained and full-featured mail server while not shipping proprietary software nor unrelated features often found in popular groupware.

Main features include:

Standard email server, IMAP and IMAP+, SMTP and Submission with autoconfiguration profiles for clients

Advanced email features, aliases, domain aliases, custom routing

Web access, multiple Webmails and administration interface

User features, aliases, auto-reply, auto-forward, fetched accounts

Admin features, global admins, announcements, per-domain delegation, quotas

Security, enforced TLS, DANE, MTA-STS, Letsencrypt!, outgoing DKIM, anti-virus scanner, Snuffleupagus, block malicious attachments

Antispam, auto-learn, greylisting, DMARC& SPF, anti-spoofing

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Pricing

Starting Price:
Free
Pricing Details:
Open source
Free Version:
Free Version available.

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