Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager shipped as a single Go binary, backed by PostgreSQL.
Self-hosted & SaaS alternatives
Self-hosted email servers and newsletters: 33 open-source projects (2026)
Run your own mailboxes or send newsletters and transactional email from your own server.
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- 33
- This week
- +956
- Updated
- 19 hours ago
How to choose
Start with the job: newsletters to subscribers, transactional mail from your app, or real mailboxes for your own domain. For newsletters, listmonk is a single Go binary backed by PostgreSQL. For sending from an application, Postal is a self-hosted alternative to SendGrid and Mailgun. For mailboxes, mailcow-dockerized bundles Postfix, Dovecot and Rspamd behind a web admin UI, so decide how much server setup you accept.
- listmonkBest for anyone replacing Mailchimp or Substack with a newsletter and mailing list manager that runs as one Go binary on PostgreSQL (AGPL-3.0).
- postalBest for developers who want to send and receive application email on their own platform instead of SendGrid, Mailgun or Postmark.
- mailcow-dockerizedBest for people who want full mailboxes for their domain in Docker, managed through a web admin UI over Postfix, Dovecot, SOGo and Rspamd (GPL-3.0).
Top projects compared
| Project | Stars | This week | License | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24.2K | +91 | AGPL-3.0 | 19 hours ago | |
| 19.7K | +20 | MIT | 2 days ago | |
| 16.9K | +17 | MIT | 4 days ago | |
| 15.8K | +210 | — | 4 days ago | |
| 15.5K | +307 | MIT | 13 days ago | |
| 15.5K | +9 | CC0-1.0 | 16 days ago |
All projects
A containerized, production-oriented mail server bundling Postfix, Dovecot, and anti-spam/antivirus tools, configured through plain files instead of a SQL database.
Open source mail delivery platform for sending and receiving email, a self-hosted alternative to services like SendGrid, Mailgun and Postmark.
Self-hostable all-in-one mail and collaboration server in Rust, supporting IMAP, JMAP, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV.
A self-hostable email service built on Cloudflare Workers, letting you create multiple mailboxes under one domain with sending, attachments and a responsive web UI.
A one-click installer that turns a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 machine into a complete self-hosted mail server with webmail, DNS, and backups.
Dockerized, self-hosted mail server suite bundling Postfix, Dovecot, SOGo, Rspamd and ClamAV behind a web admin UI.
A self-hosted mail server packaged as a set of Docker images, covering SMTP, IMAP, POP3 and webmail.
A browser-based multilingual IMAP webmail client with an application-like interface, written in PHP and extendable through plugins and skins.
A full-featured, secure mail server in Go for self-hosting your own domain's email with low maintenance.
Open-source, self-hostable email platform for transactional emails, marketing campaigns, and workflow automation, positioned as an alternative to SendGrid, Resend, and Mailgun.
Mail hosting and management platform with a modern web UI, admin panel and webmail, built on Postfix and Dovecot.
A single-file, self-hosted private email server with SMTP, POP3 and IMAP support plus a web mail management interface for your own domain.
Self-hosted newsletter, email marketing and transactional email platform with a visual MJML editor, Liquid templating and seven sending providers.
Open source newsletter tool for sending email campaigns and building sign-up forms, an alternative to Mailchimp.
Self-hosted email marketing app for managing subscribers, lists, campaigns and message tracking, built on PHP and Laravel.
SOGo is an open-source groupware suite offering calendaring, address books, and webmail, with native CalDAV, CardDAV, and IMAP support.
Self-hosted email inboxes for AI agents, with REST and MCP APIs, SMTP, human approval for risky mail, and signed webhooks.
A scalable IMAP/POP3 mail server that stores all data, including emails, in a sharded and replicated MongoDB cluster.
Open source, full-featured mail server solution for mainstream Linux and BSD distributions.
A lightweight, self-hostable webmail client that combines multiple email accounts into one view over IMAP, SMTP, JMAP and EWS.
A simple, lightweight, web-based email client written in PHP that needs no database.
Self-hosted or cloud newsletter app that charges you per email sent via Amazon SES rather than per dormant subscriber.
Self-hosted browser webmail client for the Stalwart Mail Server, covering mail, calendar, contacts and files over JMAP.
A mail client app for Nextcloud that connects to any IMAP account from within your Nextcloud instance.
Self-hosted, open-source email API that sends mail over SMTP from your own infrastructure, with logs, bounce handling and webhooks.
Self-hosted, open source email marketing manager for creating, sending, and analysing campaigns and newsletters.
A self-hosted webmail client that merges multiple IMAP/SMTP email accounts into one unified inbox.
Cyrus IMAP is a self-hosted mail, contacts and calendar server that serves email over IMAP, JMAP, POP3, CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV.
Self-hostable email marketing platform on Rails and AWS SES, with a built-in AI agent and an MCP server for drafting, segmenting and sending campaigns.
FAQ
- How are these projects chosen?
- Every project on Repolode passes a quality screening before it is listed: it must be usable today, solve a concrete problem, be more than a thin wrapper and still be maintained. This page groups the listed projects by topic and ranks them by GitHub stars.
- Which project here is the most popular?
- knadh/listmonk, with 24.2K GitHub stars. Check each project's license and last commit before choosing.