Mail-in-a-Box tries to make that a bit less painful. It’s not a mail client, and it’s not a dashboard on top of someone else’s hosting — it’s a full-stack, all-in-one mail system you install on a single Ubuntu server. One script sets up everything: Postfix, Dovecot, Nextcloud for file sync, a DNS server (optional), Let’s Encrypt certs, spam filtering, and a management UI.
SnappyMail isn’t packed with buzzwords or corporate branding. It’s just a clean, fast webmail interface that works well with your existing mail server — and doesn’t get in your way. Originally forked from RainLoop after development there stalled, SnappyMail has taken a different path: minimal overhead, simple deployment, and no surprise dependencies.
Some setups just need mail to work — reliably, repeatably, and without handing over control to some black-box SaaS. Modoboa gives administrators a structured way to run self-hosted email, but without hiding what’s under the hood. It’s built on familiar components like Postfix and Dovecot, but wraps them in a manageable interface, along with a few smart additions for security, quotas, user management, and webmail access.
CryptPad is what happens when someone takes the idea of online collaboration and says: *what if we just didn’t see any of your data?* It’s a browser-based platform — no install, no app — but everything typed, uploaded, or shared is encrypted right there in the browser. Not after. Not optionally. It happens before anything touches the server.
