Open-source alternatives to Gmail
Gmail is Google's hosted mailbox and webmail client. The list below is every catalog tool tagged Communication - Email - Complete Solutions or Communication - Email - Webmail Clients, which is the closest the catalog gets to the same job; none of them has been checked feature by feature against Gmail.
| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container. Only configuration files, no SQL database. MIT · released 2026-09-04 | 18,828 |
Complete and fully featured mail server for use by websites & web servers. MIT · released 2026-06-03 | 16,796 |
Turns any Ubuntu server into a fully functional mail server with one command. CC0-1.0 · released 2026-05-24 | 15,412 |
All-in-one mail server with JMAP, IMAP4, and SMTP support and a wide range of modern features. AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-09-06 | 14,575 |
Mail server suite based on Dovecot, Postfix and other open source software, that provides a modern Web UI for administration. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-18 | 13,390 |
Simple yet full-featured mail server as a set of Docker images. MIT · released 2026-08-12 | 7,498 |
Browser-based IMAP client with an application-like user interface. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-09-06 | 7,161 |
Open source email alias solution to protect your email address. Comes with browser extensions and mobile apps. MIT · released 2026-08-11 | 6,971 |
All-in-one mail server that implements SMTP (both MTA and MX) and IMAP. Replaces Postfix, Dovecot, OpenDKIM, OpenSPF, OpenDMARC with single daemon. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-05-23 | 6,080 |
Complete e-mail solution with IMAP4, SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, DANE and DNSSEC, reputation-based and content-based junk filtering, Internationalization (IDNA), automatic TLS with ACME and Let's Encrypt, account autoconfiguration, and webmail. MIT · released 2026-08-19 | 5,846 |
Email forwarding service for creating aliases. MIT · released 2026-09-02 | 4,832 |
Mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified web user interface. ISC · released 2026-09-06 | 3,537 |
Scalable no-SPOF IMAP/POP3 mail server. EUPL-1.2 · released 2026-09-07 | 2,109 |
Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot. GPL-3.0 · released unknown | 1,841 |
Feed reader for your email accounts. LGPL-2.1 · released 2026-08-29 | 1,718 |
Simple, modern, lightweight & fast web-based email client (fork of RainLoop). AGPL-3.0 · released 2024-10-09 | 1,694 |
Privacy-focused encrypted email for everyone. All-in-one alternative to Gmail + Mailchimp + Sendgrid. BUSL-1.1, MPL-2.0 · released 2026-09-04 | 1,668 |
Your Debian-based data center in a box. A set of general-purpose Ansible roles that can be used to manage Debian or Ubuntu hosts. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-03-13 | 1,419 |
Complete mailserver solution leveraging the Nix Ecosystem. GPL-3.0 · released 2019-12-16 | 314 |
Lets you have an infinite number of unique inboxes. GPL-3.0 · released unknown | n/a |
Another browser-based IMAP client. GPL-2.0 · released unknown | n/a |
Complete email solution that runs on any webspace with PHP and MariaDB. It supports POP3 catchall mailboxes and can also integrate with Postfix or b1gMailServer if you're running your own server. GPL-2.0 · released unknown | n/a |
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