Dovecot
Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations.
Dovecot is among the best performing IMAP servers while still supporting the standard mbox and Maildir formats. The mailboxes are transparently indexed, which gives Dovecot its good performance while still providing full compatibility with existing mailbox handling tools.
Dovecot is standards compliant. Dovecot passes all IMAP server standard compliancy tests while most other servers fail many of them.
Dovecot’s indexes are self-optimizing. They contain exactly what the user’s client commonly needs, no more and no less.
Dovecot is self-healing. It tries to fix most of the problems it notices by itself, such as broken index files. The problems are however logged so the administrator can later try to figure out what caused them.
Dovecot tries to be admin-friendly. Common error messages are made as easily understandable as possible.
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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.
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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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Poste.io
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.
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