iRedMail
Full-featured mail server solution based on Postfix and Dovecot.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 14 commits in the last 90 days.
Also an alternative to Gmail.
At a glance
iRedMail quick facts
- Health score
- 39/100 STALE
- Stars
- 1,849
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
Top alternatives to iRedMail
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "- License: GPL v3 - Authors: Zhang Huangbin (zhb at iredmail.org) - Check and download the latest stable release from website - Install iRedMail by following our installation guides strictly: Installation Guides - Community, bug report, feature requests: online support forum - We offer paid support services - Source packages patched or modified for RHEL/CentOS can be found here, other RPM packages are all installed from official yum repository and EPEL."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
iRedMail scores 39/100, #15 of 18 in Communication - Email - Complete Solutions: 14 commits in the last 90 days earn 16.3 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 1,849 stars add 13.1 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 release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 16.3 / 35
14 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 13.1 / 20
1.8k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 14
- Last 90 days
- 74
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #15 of 18 tools in Communication - Email - Complete Solutions by health , between Mail-in-a-Box (#14) and Simple NixOS Mailserver (#16) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Shell |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 1,849 |
| Open issues | 5 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | iredmail/iRedMail ↗ |
iRedMail vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with iRedMail (Communication - Email - Complete Solutions), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| docker-mailserver | 97 | 20k | MIT | 4 days ago |
| Mailcow | 97 | 14k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Mailu | 96 | 7.6k | MIT | yesterday |
| Modoboa | 84 | 3.5k | ISC | yesterday |
| Maddy Mail Server | 80 | 6.1k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| iRedMail (this tool) | 39 | 1.8k | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
iRedMail: common questions
What does iRedMail replace?
Repoly lists iRedMail as an open-source alternative to Gmail. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where iRedMail stands against the others.
Is iRedMail still maintained?
iRedMail had 14 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.