---
title: "12 Best Open Source Email Servers"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/12-best-open-source-email-servers-vpcca0uyb
source_url: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-email-servers/
type: article
source: "It's Foss"
published: 2023-06-18T05:12:39.528Z
updated: 2023-07-20T14:10:56.027Z
tags: ["github", "open-source", "docker", "privacy"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 42
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# 12 Best Open Source Email Servers

**[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 6 min read · 42 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Postal Postal is a feature-rich mail server that can be utilized by websites and servers. Cuttlefish is a no-nonsense open-source mail server suite with tools that help you build a web server, manage your mailbox, and more. Haraka Haraka is a modern open source SMTP server built with Node.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@binabh** · 2 upvotes

> https://www.bennetrichter.de/en/tutorials/mailcow-dockerized/
> This is a good tutorial if you want to get started with mailcow

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