E-MailRelay AlternativesMail Servers and other similar apps like E-MailRelay

E-MailRelay is described as 'A lightweight mail server with SMTP and POP3 support. It mainly used as store-and-forward mail server with POP access to spooled messages or it can be used as a personal internet mail server' and is a Mail Server in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to E-MailRelay for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted, BSD and Windows apps. The best E-MailRelay alternative is Postfix, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like E-MailRelay are Mail-in-a-box, Haraka, Exim and OpenSMTPD.

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  1. Postfix icon
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    Postfix is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail. It attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure. The software is also known by its former names VMailer and IBM Secure Mailer.

    26 Postfix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    Sergey Ponomarev
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    The Postfix is more popular smtp server but it's more complicated to configure and it's Lunux/Unix only while the ER works on Windows too.

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    • Postfix is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to E-MailRelay.

    • Postfix is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to E-MailRelay.

    • Postfix is Free and Open SourceE-MailRelay is also Free and Open Source
  2. Mail-in-a-box icon
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    Easy-to-deploy mail server.

    19 Mail-in-a-box alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Roundcube
     
    • Mail-in-a-box is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to E-MailRelay.

    • Mail-in-a-box is Free and Open SourceE-MailRelay is also Free and Open Source
  3. Haraka icon
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    Haraka is an open source SMTP server written in Node.js which provides extremely high performance coupled with a flexible plugin system allowing Javascript programmers full access to change the behaviour of the server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
     
  4. Exim icon
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    Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. OpenSMTPD icon
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    OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. It allows ordinary machines to exchange e-mails with other systems speaking the SMTP protocol.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Sendmail icon
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    Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of transfer and delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over the Internet.

    26 Sendmail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  7. Courier-MTA icon
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    The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Configure SMTP e-mail in IIS when you want to deliver e-mail messages from your site. Mail can be delivered immediately or it can be delivered to a file location on disk where it can be retrieved for delivery later.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Microsoft SMTP Server is the most popular Windows alternative to E-MailRelay.

    • Microsoft SMTP Server is the most popular commercial alternative to E-MailRelay.

    • Microsoft SMTP Server is Paid and ProprietaryE-MailRelay is Free and Open Source
  9. MailerQ icon
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    MailerQ is a high performance Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) and a very fast SMTP server, designed to deliver large volumes of email messages at very high speeds. MailerQ is based on RabbitMQ AMQP.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Qmail icon
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    QMail MTA.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
    • Slackware
     
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