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Maddy

Composable all-in-one mail server that sends and receives SMTP mail, stores it for IMAP access and runs DKIM, SPF, DMARC, DANE and MTA-STS.

Maddy is a mail server written in Go. It sends and accepts mail over SMTP, stores messages for IMAP access, and implements DKIM, SPF, DMARC, DANE and MTA-STS in one daemon. The setup tutorial describes the pre-built tarball, which includes a systemd unit, and the Docker page describes the official image. The FAQ compares it with MailCow and Mail-in-a-Box, which bundle other software, where Maddy is one program.

Its own pages show mail submitted to the Submission endpoint by Mailman 3, a mailing list manager, with authentication and TLS. SQLite and PostgreSQL hold the mail index, and LDAP can verify passwords.

Worth knowing

The README calls IMAP storage beta. The project has no admin web interface and no webmail; the FAQ says administration is done with the command-line utility.

Identity

Status
Stub
Maintainer
Max Mazurov3
Maintained by
Individual4
First release
20205

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on1
Install with
binary-download8910

Releases

Current major version
Pre-1.06
Last release
2026-10-036

Adoption

GitHub stars
6,1164
Contributors
7814

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-11-03: name, links, Runs as, Categories
    maddy.email
  2. 2026-11-03: links
    github.com/foxcpp/maddy
  3. 2026-11-03: Maintainer
    github.com/foxcpp/maddy/blob/v0.9.6/maddy.go
  4. 2026-11-03: Maintained by, Written in, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/foxcpp/maddy
  5. 2026-11-03: First release
    github.com/foxcpp/maddy/releases/tag/v0.1.0
  6. 2026-11-03: Current major version, Last release
    github.com/foxcpp/maddy/releases/tag/v0.9.6
  7. 2026-11-03: License, License model
    github.com/foxcpp/maddy/blob/v0.9.6/COPYING
  8. 2026-11-03: Runtime, Install with
    maddy.email/tutorials/setting-up/
  9. 2026-11-03: Install with
    maddy.email/docker/
  10. 2026-11-03: Install with
    maddy.email/tutorials/building-from-source/
  11. 2026-11-03: Databases
    maddy.email/internals/sqlite/
  12. 2026-11-03: Databases
    maddy.email/reference/storage/imapsql/
  13. 2026-11-03: Admin interface
    maddy.email/faq/
  14. 2026-11-03: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/foxcpp/maddy/contributors?per_page=1

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