Poste.io
Poste.io is a free self-hosted mail server that provides POP3, SMTP, IMAP, spam filtering, WebMail, and web administration for individuals and small teams.
Platform availability
Available on 2 of 9 platforms
Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.
15/100 Low
- Maintained
- 0GitHub repository no longer exists
- Popular
- No data
- Easy to install
- 452 install platforms, install notes, Docker image
- Light to run
- No data
Based on 2 of 4 factors.
Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 14 days ago
No GitHub repository data collected yet.
Checked 15 days ago - source: GitHub (BigBearTechWorld/poste-io)
Resources & Compatibility
ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is not supported.
Checked 15 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs
First-install notes
- Set your Canada Post API key Add your Canada Post API key (the code that lets the app use the service) to the Key field or query parameter the app sends; without a valid key, the service rejects requests and no address suggestions are returned. source
- Find suggestions, then Retrieve details Use the Find service to get short address suggestions, then send the Id (the short code that identifies a suggestion) from that result to Retrieve to get full street, city, and postal code; without Retrieve you only have a partial address. source
- Initial setup Poste.io needs a registered FQDN for external mail. It uses mail ports 25, 110, 143, 443, 465, 587, 993, and 995, and web UI ports 443 and 8280. Create a user share for mail data and open or forward required ports. Set HTTPS=OFF before the image name if using a reverse proxy. source
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Variants
Alternatives (8)
- Foxmail - Foxmail is a free POP3 and IMAP4 e-mail client in English and Chinese for Windows systems.
- Mail-in-a-box - Easy-to-deploy mail server.
- Microsoft Exchange - Exchange business-class email helps increase user productivity while protecting your data.
- Zimbra Collaboration Suite - Zimbra Collaboration is an open, secure collaboration tool for email, calendaring, tasks and more.
- hMail Server - hMailServer is a free e-mail server for Microsoft Windows.
- iRedMail - A fully fledged, free email server solution, an open source project (GPL v2).
- mail.com - mail.com provides its users with an customized selection of unique domains to pair with their desired address at no cost.
- mailcow: dockerized - mailcow is a mail server suite based on Dovecot, Postfix, SOGo, Rspamd and other open source software, that provides a modern Web UI for ad…
Checked yesterday - source: AlternativeTo
Common questions
Which Docker image should a self-hoster use for the free version of Poste?
The free version uses the public analogic/poste.io image. The Pro version uses a private repository image and requires a repository login.
Which host path should be mounted as the Poste data directory?
Mount a host data directory to /data inside the container, such as /your-data-dir/data:/data. Free and Pro use the same data directory structure.
How can I follow container logs after startup?
Use docker logs -f mailserver after starting the container. This follows the log output using the container name from the getting-started example.
Answers sourced from poste.io
Community
- r/selfhosted on Reddit: is Poste.io the best today one easy to set up ... (reddit)
- Self-hosted email - is Poste.io secure? : r/selfhosted - Reddit (reddit)
Collected 14 days ago - public community threads