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Mox

Full-featured mail server for sending and receiving email, with IMAP, SMTP, webmail and an HTTP/JSON webapi.

Mox is a mail server that sends and receives email over SMTP and IMAP4, with a webmail interface and an admin web interface. It is written in Go and ships as a single binary that the install guide runs as a service on Linux. Applications can send transactional mail through the HTTP/JSON webapi.

Worth knowing

The source is MIT-licensed. The Public Suffix List it bundles is under MPL-2.0. Stored messages are individual files, with an embedded index database beside them.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Mechiel Lukkien4
Maintained by
Individual4
First release
20237

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on3
Install with
binary download3

Releases

Current major version
Pre-1.07
Last release
2026-08-197

Adoption

GitHub stars
5,9282
Contributors
262

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-11-03: links, Categories, License, License model
    www.xmox.nl
  2. 2026-11-03: links, Written in, GitHub stars, Contributors
    github.com/mjl-/mox
  3. 2026-11-03: links, Runtime, Runs as, Install with, Admin interface
    www.xmox.nl/install/
  4. 2026-11-03: Maintainer, Maintained by
    github.com/mjl-/mox/blob/main/LICENSE.MIT
  5. 2026-11-03: Content storage
    www.xmox.nl/faq/
  6. 2026-11-03: License
    github.com/mjl-/mox/blob/main/LICENSE.MPLv2.0
  7. 2026-11-03: Current major version, Last release, First release
    github.com/mjl-/mox/releases

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