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Fast, easy to administer, and secure Sendmail replacement.

Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Also an alternative to SendGrid.

#8 of 9 in Communication - Email - Mail Transfer Agents

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

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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 commits over the last 12 months
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

LicenceIPL-1.0
PlatformsC, deb
Latest releaseNo tagged release
Stars0
DockerNot advertised
RepositorySource ↗

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.