hardware/mailserver
:warning: UNMAINTAINED - Simple and full-featured mail server using Docker observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3881
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2436
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1288 stars · 305 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A simple and full-featured mail server distributed as a set of Docker images, bundling Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, ClamAV, Sieve, Fetchmail, webmail (Rainloop), Postfixadmin, DNS components, and automatic Let's Encrypt TLS. The project is explicitly marked unmaintained, with its last release in January 2020.
Use cases
- self-host my own email server with docker
- run a private mail server with spam filtering and antivirus
- set up an smtp and imap server with dkim dmarc and spf
- host email for multiple domains on my own server
- dockerized postfix dovecot mailserver with let's encrypt certificates
- automatically gpg-encrypt outgoing email
When to choose
- You need a complete batteries-included mail stack (SMTP, IMAP/POP3, webmail, anti-spam, antivirus, admin UI) deployed via Docker on your own server
- You want DKIM, DMARC, SPF, ARC, greylisting, and auto-renewed Let's Encrypt certificates configured out of the box
- You are studying the architecture or forking the codebase - it is the ancestor of the maintained docker-mailserver project
When to avoid
- Any production deployment today - the project is explicitly unmaintained since 2020 and receives no security fixes
- You need current versions of Postfix, Dovecot, or Rspamd or timely vulnerability patches
- You want active community support - use a maintained successor such as docker-mailserver instead
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
email self-hosted security email self-hosted security privacy self-hosted mailserver postfix dovecot rspamd clamav dkim dmarc spf smtp imap pop3 spam-filtering antivirus letsencrypt sieve fetchmail webmail gpg-encryption docker-compose unmaintained docker linux
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/hardware/mailserver · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0db352931c6a
- homepage: https://store.docker.com/community/images/hardware/mailserver · fetched 2026-08-29 · da3f3686f162
- site_page: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub · fetched 2026-08-29 · caaa18892709
- site_page: https://docs.docker.com/install · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4103c347b8c7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| hardware/mailserver | main | 10 |
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