Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives

Gmail is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are some alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best Self-Hosted alternative is Forward Email, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Gmail and five of them are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Gmail are Zero Email, LuxSci, Webmail Lite and Horde.

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Gmail alternatives are mainly WebMail Providers, but if you're looking for Calendar Apps or Email Clients you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free, Android + Free, Android, Android + Open Source, EU and Self-Hosted. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Gmail.
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  1. Forward Email icon
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    Forward Email is the best email service, encrypted email service, and fastest email service. It supports unlimited domains and aliases for no extra cost. It uses quantum safe ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption and offers SMTP, IMAP, POP3, email webhooks, email regular expressions...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  2. Zero Email icon
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    Zero is an open-source AI email solution that gives users the power to self-host their own email app while also integrating external services like Gmail and other email providers. Our goal is to modernize and improve emails through AI agents to truly modernize emails.

    52 Zero Email alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
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  3. LuxSci icon
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    Providing HIPAA-compliant email, secure email & web services since 1999. Secure communications via email, text, chat, video, and web.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Webmail Lite icon
     18 likes

    Open Source WebMail Lite is a free community edition of full-featured WebMail Pro server application intended for users who need a clean and simple web mail application, which is fast and easy to use. Whether you need a free web browser based email client software for Windows ASP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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  5. Horde icon
     30 likes

    Horde Groupware is a free, enterprise ready, browser based collaboration suite. Users can manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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