Postfix Alternatives
Postfix is described as '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' and is a Mail Server in the Online Services category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Postfix for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted solutions and BSD. The best alternative is Mail-in-a-box, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Postfix are MailHog (Free, Open Source), Exim (Free, Open Source), OpenSMTPD (Free, Open Source) and sSMTP (Free, Open Source).
- Easy-to-deploy mail server.
Mail-in-a-box vs Postfix opinions
Mail-in-a-box uses Postfix internally - MailHog is an email testing tool inspired by MailCatcher, but easier to install.
MailHog vs Postfix opinions
Mailhog is for testing if another application can send mails. Postfix is for sending and receiving mails. - sSMTP is a simple MTA to deliver mail from a computer to a mail server. sSMTP is simple and lightweight, there are no daemons or anything hogging up CPU; Just sSMTP. Unlike Exim4, sSMTP does not receive mail, expand aliases, or manage a queue.
Discontinued
The last update was in 2013.
No screenshots yet - 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.
- In the default mode, it transmits a mail to an SMTP server (for example at a free mail provider) which takes care of further delivery.No screenshots yet
- Need to test your webapps outbound emails with Mailinator but stuck behind a firewall? Want to keep the new application you are developing secret until it’s time to release it? Need to validate that emails go out as part of your integration test suite?
- Email gateway application (SMTP server) that makes it easy for senders to adopt the latest authentication specifications ( SPF and DKIM) to comply with changing ISP policies for accountable outbound email delivery. No over hype. It just delivers.
- 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.No screenshots yet