DavMail vs Dovecot
Both are self-hosted communication - email - mail delivery agents projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.
| DavMail | Dovecot | |
|---|---|---|
| Health score | 58/100 | 83/100 |
| Commits (11 mo) | 568 | 1653 |
| Commits (last 3 mo) | 187 | 518 |
| Stars | 761 | 1.3k |
| Latest release | none tagged | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 | MIT, LGPL-2.1 |
| Built with | Java | C, deb |
| Typical RAM | 2 GB | 1 GB |
DavMail
POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP exchange gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client with an Exchange server, even from the internet or behind a firewall through Outlook Web Access.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 67% of tracked projects; popularity more than 30%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
Dovecot
IMAP and POP3 server written primarily with security in mind.
High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.
Commit activity more than 87% of tracked projects; popularity more than 39%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
How to read this
Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.
What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.
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