Poste.io
Full-featured solution for your Email server. Native implementation of last anti-SPAM methods, webmail and easy administration included. Free tier available.
Developed outside the platforms our data source measures, so there is no activity history to score. This says nothing about the project — many unrated projects are actively maintained.
Activity data
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| Stars | not measured |
|---|---|
| Latest release | — |
| Repo updated | — |
| Licence | ⊘ Proprietary |
| Built with | Unknown |
Is Poste.io actively maintained?
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Read that as missing data, not as a warning. Several of the best-maintained projects in this catalogue are unrated for exactly this reason. To judge it, open the repository and look at the date of the most recent commit yourself.
What Poste.io actually does
Poste.io is a packaged email server solution designed to handle incoming and outgoing mail streams. It incorporates webmail access, administrative tooling, and native anti-spam mechanisms within a single deployment. This approach aims to simplify the notoriously complex task of running a self-hosted mail transfer agent.
Best fit: It suits administrators who want to deploy a complete email stack quickly without manually configuring separate components like Postfix, Dovecot, and Roundcube.
Worth knowing: The software is proprietary, which may conflict with purely open-source deployment policies, and relies on a free tier that could limit advanced features. Operating a self-hosted email server also carries inherent burdens regarding IP reputation and deliverability management.
Deployment notes
As the underlying runtime technology is unspecified, you will typically need to ensure persistent storage is properly mounted for mail spools and databases, and place the service behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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