DragonFly
A small MTA for home and office use. Works on Linux and FreeBSD.
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Still maintained? Yes: 1 commit in the last 90 days.
Comparisons in Communication - Email - Mail Transfer Agents: SendGrid alternatives.
At a glance
DragonFly quick facts
- Health score
- 21/100 STALE
- Stars
- 266
- Last commit
- 2 months ago (Aug 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "dma is a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use. It accepts mails from locally installed Mail User Agents (MUA) and delivers the mails either locally or to a remote destination. Remote delivery includes several features like TLS/SSL support and SMTP authentication."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
DragonFly scores 21/100, #3 of 9 in Communication - Email - Mail Transfer Agents: 1 commit in the last 90 days earns 1.2 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 266 stars add 9.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 33.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 1.2 / 35
1 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 9.7 / 20
266 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 1
- Last 90 days
- 12
- Last 12 months
- 2 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #3 of 9 tools in Communication - Email - Mail Transfer Agents by health , between Haraka (#2) and chasquid (#4) .
Details
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Platforms | C |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 266 |
| Open issues | 32 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | corecode/dma ↗ |
DragonFly vs its top 2 alternatives
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DragonFly: common questions
Is DragonFly still maintained?
DragonFly had 1 commit in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.