Top 15 Dovecot Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations. It's fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very little memory.

1. DBMail

DBMail DBMail is a fast, scalable IMAP4 and POP3 server that stores all email and users in a Postgresql, MySQL or SQLite database.......

2. Courier IMAP

Courier IMAP The Courier IMAP server is a fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP server that uses Maildirs. Many E-mail service providers use the Courier IMAP server to easy handle hundreds of thousands of mail accounts. With its built-in IMAP and POP3 aggregation proxy, the Courier IMAP server has practically infinite horizontal scalability. In......

3. Cyrus IMAP

Cyrus IMAP The Cyrus IMAP server differs from other IMAP server implementations in that it is generally intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users cannot log in. Users can access mail through the IMAP/IMAP-S, POP3/POP3-S or KPOP protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server considerable advantages in......

4. Pegasus Mail

Pegasus Mail Pegasus Mail is a free, standards-based electronic mail client suitable for use by single or multiple users on single computers or on local area networks.......

5. Mail Notification

Mail Notification Mail Notification monitors your mailboxes for new mail. It can monitor multiple mailboxes concurrently, and supports Evolution, Gmail, IMAP, Maildir, mbox, MH, Mozilla products (Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, …), POP3, Sylpheed, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail mailboxes.......

6. Tab Notifier

Tab Notifier Firefox extension to receive Desktop notifications for Google Calendar, Gmail and other web-based mail services.......

7. Cypht

Cypht Cypht is an Open Source webmail application written in PHP and JavaScript that speaks native IMAP, POP3, and SMTP. This is a third generation E-mail client from the developers of the Hastymail project.Cypht has an evolving feature set, and employs a modular design that provides an unprecedented level of site......

8. Koma-Mail

Koma-Mail Koma-Mail is an email client which is comfortable and has very handy functions. It does not need an installation, so that you can run Koma-Mail from your flash drive but, of course, also on your desktop.For safety reasons Koma-Mail blocks scripts and ActiveX in your mails. You can also encrypt......

9. Postbox

Postbox Postbox is an email application that helps you organize your work life and get stuff done.It has all the elegance and simplicity of Apple Mail, but with more power and flexibility to manage even the most demanding workloads.Key Features* Ultra-Fast Search - Instantly find messages, attachments, images, links, and contacts.......

10. eM client

eM client eM Client is an email client for Windows, supporting full native interoperability with Exchange server mailboxes, including calendars, contacts and tasks. It also supports POP3 and IMAP4 servers as well as chat protocols (e.g. XMPP). Skype is supported as long as the user has installed Skype on the PC.......

11. The Bat

The Bat The Bat! is a secure email client software, built to protect your correspondence against third-parties.The Bat! protects your information through multiple encryption streams with the options to encrypt your emails on disk and during communication through an SSL/TLS connection. Free of global email providers that keep your messages in......

12. Becky! Internet Mail

Becky! Internet Mail Becky! Internet Mail is an email client for Windows OS. Becky! Internet Mail supports POP3, IMAP and S/MIME as well as PGP/PGP via add-ons.......

13. GyazMail

GyazMail GyazMail is a email client software for Mac OS X, based on Cocoa framework, simple, easy-to-use with many features.......

14. POP Peeper

POP Peeper POP Peeper is an email notifier that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on your POP3, IMAP (with IDLE support), Hotmail\MSN\LiveMail, Yahoo, GMail, Mail.com, MyWay, Excite, iWon, Lycos.com, RediffMail, Juno and NetZero accounts. IMAP supports allows you to access AOL, AIM, Netscape......

15. EmailTray

EmailTray EmailTray is a smart email client and an email notifier for POP3 and IMAP email accounts, including Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail and AOL. EmailTray intelligently ranks messages, prioritizes them into 4 Inboxes and alerts you only to the most important.......