Alternatives to Modoboa

Open-source mail hosting platform with an admin UI and webmail. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Modoboa.

  • Mailcow

    Dockerized open-source mail server suite with web admin and webmail.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hosted

    Mailcow is a Dockerized open-source suite with a web admin panel and SOGo webmail, needing Docker knowledge and more resources than a lightweight daemon.

  • Mail-in-a-Box

    Turnkey open-source script that builds a full mail server on Ubuntu.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hosted

    Mail-in-a-Box builds the whole mail stack through a turnkey script, but only on Ubuntu, and needs comfort maintaining a Linux server.

  • iRedMail

    Free open-source mail server installer for Linux and BSD.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hosted

    iRedMail is a long-established installer that sets up a full mail stack with one text-based script on many Linux and BSD distributions.

  • Poste.io

    All-in-one Docker mail server with web admin and built-in TLS.

    FreemiumProprietaryLinuxSelf-hosted

    Poste.io ships web admin, webmail and TLS in a single Docker container, but is not open source and charges for larger deployments.

  • Stalwart

    Rust-based all-in-one mail server supporting JMAP, IMAP, and SMTP.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hosted

    Stalwart is a Rust all-in-one server adding JMAP beside IMAP and SMTP, from a newer project with a smaller ecosystem.

  • Maddy

    Composable single-binary open-source mail server written in Go.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxSelf-hosted

    Maddy is a single Go binary with a composable configuration model, with a smaller community and no admin UI or webmail listed.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.