Postfix Alternatives

Postfix is described as 'Mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail. It attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure. The software is also known by its former names VMailer and IBM Secure Mailer' and is a Mail Server in the online services category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Postfix for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Postfix alternative is Mail-in-a-box, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Postfix are Mailpit, Stalwart, MailHog and KumoMTA.

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  1. A small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use. Part of DragonFly BSD , it accepts mails from locally installed Mail User Agents (MUA) and delivers the mails either locally or to a remote destination.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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    In the default mode, it transmits a mail to an SMTP server (for example at a free mail provider) which takes care of further delivery.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  3. Configure SMTP e-mail in IIS when you want to deliver e-mail messages from your site. Mail can be delivered immediately or it can be delivered to a file location on disk where it can be retrieved for delivery later.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. MailerQ icon
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    MailerQ is a high performance Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) and a very fast SMTP server, designed to deliver large volumes of email messages at very high speeds. MailerQ is based on RabbitMQ AMQP.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Inbucket is an email testing application; it will accept messages for any email address and make them available to view via a web interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Halon icon
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    Halon is a global leader in email infrastructure, empowering large senders and mailbox providers to maximize email. Founded in 2010, Halon's solutions process billions of emails daily worldwide.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
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  7. NikaMail icon
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    NikaMail is a portable, extendable, zero-config email server. It is designed to perform automation tasks, provide access to mailboxes (port 110), serve as a mail transfer agent (port 587) and mail exchange service (port 25). NikaMail supports TLS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. Hectane icon
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    An SMTP client that is extremely easy to configure and use, providing a simple HTTP API that is used for sending emails.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    BulkMTA is Commercial Mail Server Similar to PowerMTA. IP Rotation, DKIM, Sender / Receiver Rate limiting.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Mailsnag icon
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    Mailsnag lets you build resilient SMTP integrations while protecting you from spamming customers during testing on QA and Staging environments. It is like Chaos Monkey for SMTP integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. A lightweight mail server with SMTP and POP3 support. It mainly used as store-and-forward mail server with POP access to spooled messages or it can be used as a personal internet mail server.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. A lightweight SMTP server written in Go, made for receiving large volumes of mail. To be used as a package in your Go project, or as a stand-alone daemon by running the "guerrillad" binary.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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