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Mailu

Open-source, Docker-based mail server providing a full-featured, self-hosted email solution with IMAP, SMTP, webmail, and strong security features.

Alternative to: Gmail and Microsoft Exchange
Email Mail Server Self-Hosted Docker SMTP IMAP Privacy Security Open Source
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About Mailu

Mailu is a simple yet fully featured, open-source mail server stack built using Docker containers. It is designed to make self-hosting email systems easy to deploy and maintain while avoiding proprietary components and unnecessary groupware complexity. Mailu provides a complete email infrastructure including SMTP, IMAP, and submission services, along with web-based administration and webmail interfaces. It supports modern email standards and security practices such as enforced TLS, DKIM signing, SPF, DMARC, MTA-STS, and DANE. The system also integrates anti-spam and anti-virus protection, greylisting, attachment filtering, and automated learning mechanisms to improve mail filtering accuracy over time. Additional features include domain and alias management, user-level auto-replies, forwarding, fetched accounts, Sieve filtering, quotas, and per-domain administration controls. Mailu is commonly used by individuals, organizations, and self-hosting enthusiasts who want a privacy-respecting and fully controllable email server stack deployed via containers.

Key Features

  • Full mail server stack (SMTP, IMAP, Submission)
  • Docker-based deployment
  • Webmail interface support
  • Admin web interface
  • Multiple webmail options
  • Domain and alias management
  • Domain aliases and routing rules
  • User auto-reply (vacation messages)
  • Email forwarding support
  • Fetched external mail accounts
  • Sieve filtering support
  • Per-user and per-domain quotas
  • Global and domain-level administration
  • Enforced TLS encryption
  • DKIM signing for outgoing mail
  • SPF and DMARC support
  • MTA-STS and DANE security support
  • Integrated anti-spam filtering
  • Greylisting protection
  • Antivirus scanning
  • Attachment filtering and blocking
  • Auto-learning spam filtering system
  • Full-text search for email attachments
  • Multi-domain hosting support
  • Free and open-source components
  • Containerized modular architecture
  • No proprietary software dependencies

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