wildduck
wildduck is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Email Servers category, licensed EUPL-1.2 and written mainly in JavaScript. It ships a Docker image. It has 2,111 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Email Servers
- JavaScript
- EUPL-1.2
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,111
- Forks
- 286
- Open issues
- 6
- Commits, last 12 months
- 306
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.55.1Oct 20, 2026
- Created
- Mar 5, 2017
- License
- EUPL-1.2Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 306 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases9 releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 306 |
| Latest release | v1.55.1 (Oct 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 9 |
| Releases, all time | 100 |
| Open issues | 6 |
| Open pull requests | 5 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Mar 5, 2017 |
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About wildduck
Scalable no-SPOF IMAP/POP3 mail server.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/zone-eu/wildduck.
Topics
- imap-server
- lmtp
- mongodb
- pop3-server
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Is wildduck free and open source?
Yes. wildduck is open-source software released under the EUPL-1.2 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run wildduck with Docker?
Yes. wildduck provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to wildduck?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to wildduck include docker-mailserver, Postal and Mail-in-a-Box.
Is wildduck actively maintained?
The most recent commit to wildduck was on Oct 26, 2026 with 306 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.55.1, published Oct 20, 2026. It had 6 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.