sSMTP Alternatives

sSMTP has been discontinued. Similar apps include Postfix, which is free and open source. Other options are Exim, OpenSMTPD, Sendmail and CMail. You can choose from more than 10 Mail Servers like sSMTP for Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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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.

    27 Postfix alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  2. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  3. 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
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  4. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5.  2 likes

    CMail is a command line e-mail sending tool. It was originally developed to assist with testing mail server and content analysis software. As a result, CMail provides many more message formatting and SMTP session control options than similar software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. blat icon
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    Blat is a small, efficent SMTP command line mailer for Windows. It is the SMTP sending part of an eMail User Agent (MUA) or eMail client. As such, Blat sends eMail via SMTP (or internet eMail) from the command line, or CGI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  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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  8. A small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use. Part of DragonFly BSD , it accepts mails from locally installed Mail User Agents (MUA) and delivers the mails either locally or to a remote destination.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  9.  3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  10. mailsend-go icon
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    mailsend-go is a command line tool to send mail via SMTP protocol. This is the golang incarnation of the C version of mailsend. However, this version is much simpler and all the heavy lifting is done by the package gomail.v2

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. 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
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  12.  1 like

    Free utility to send emails from the command line. No Installation. All contained in one file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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