Audience
Anyone interested in a full-featured open source email server
About Modoboa
Regain your independence and protect your privacy by installing your own email server. It takes less than 10 minutes!
Create your mail server for free in less than 10 minutes with Modoboa
When it comes to create a mailbox, you generally have several solutions:
- Use the services offered by Internet providers (Orange, Vodafone...) of infrastructure providers (OVH, Gandi...) with a monthly or annual subscription. However, customization and configuration possibilities, domains and mailboxes number are limited.
- Use the services of free email providers (Gmail, Live, Yahoo...) which are limited and your data is used for commercial purposes.
- Install your own email server, which requires important technical knowledge to setup and configure the system.
Modoboa is an alternative to those 3 options. It frees you from dependence on email providers and makes accessible to all the creation his own secure email server. The whole thing, in less than 10 minutes and freely.
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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
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Open source
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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Linux
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