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.
Other Popular Alternatives & Related Software
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.
Learn more about Poste.io
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.
Learn more about Dovecot
Hermes SEG
Hermes SEG is a free, open-source secure email gateway and server. It delivers spam, virus, and malware protection using SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Amavisd-new, along with full encryption in transit and at rest via SMTP TLS, S/MIME, PGP, encrypted PDF (CipherMail), and Dovecot mail-crypt. It includes email archiving and integrated mailbox hosting with quotas, aliases, shared folders, Sieve rules, vacation replies, and mobile auto-configuration. Collaboration features come through Nextcloud (webmail, file sync, calendars, contacts). Identity and access are managed with OpenLDAP and Authelia, supporting SSO and MFA (TOTP, WebAuthn, Duo). It also enforces modern authentication standards: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and ARC.
Learn more about Hermes SEG
Grace Mail
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.
Learn more about Grace Mail
Pricing
Starting Price:
Free
Pricing Details:
Open source
Free Version:
Free Version available.
Integrations
Company Information
Modoboa
modoboa.org
Videos and Screen Captures
Other Useful Business Software
Custom VMs From 1 to 96 vCPUs With 99.95% Uptime
Live migration and automatic failover keep workloads online through maintenance. One free e2-micro VM every month.
Product Details
Platforms Supported
Linux
Training
Documentation
Modoboa Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Modoboa work with?
Modoboa works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Modoboa support in their product?
Modoboa supports these languages: English.
Q: What other applications or services does Modoboa integrate with?
Modoboa integrates with: CentOS and Debian.
Q: What type of training does Modoboa provide?
Modoboa provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: How much does Modoboa cost?
Pricing for Modoboa starts at Free.
