Postfix
Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Also an alternative to SendGrid.
At a glance
Postfix quick facts
- Health score
- 10/100 STALE
- Stars
- Not measured
- Last commit
- Not measured
- Latest release
- Not measured
- Licence
- IPL-1.0
Top alternatives to Postfix
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Postfix scores 10/100, #8 of 9 in Communication - Email - Mail Transfer Agents: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 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 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 0.0 / 20
0 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Last 12 months
- unknown
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 9 tools in Communication - Email - Mail Transfer Agents by health , between Exim (#7) and Sendmail (#9) .
Details
| Licence | IPL-1.0 |
| Platforms | C, deb |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | Source ↗ |
Postfix vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Postfix (Communication - Email - Mail Transfer Agents), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenSMTPD | 81 | 586 | ISC | 2 months ago |
| Maddy Mail Server | 80 | 6.1k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Haraka | 71 | 5.6k | MIT | today |
| Postal | 65 | 17k | MIT | today |
| DragonFly | 21 | 266 | BSD-3-Clause | 2 months ago |
| Postfix (this tool) | 10 | 0 | IPL-1.0 | unknown |
Postfix: common questions
What does Postfix replace?
Repoly lists Postfix as an open-source alternative to SendGrid. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Postfix stands against the others.