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docker-mailservervsopen-web-calendar

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

docker-mailserveropen-web-calendar
Score80/10053/100
Rank in category#1 of 16 in Mail Server#9 of 30 in Calendar & Contacts
GitHub stars19 699334
Stars, last 30 days+826—
Stable releases, 12 months20
Latest releasev16.0.1 · 4 Sept 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-2.0
Main languageShellPython

Which one should you pick?

docker-mailserver scores 80/100 against 53/100 for open-web-calendar, so it is the safer default.

docker-mailserver ships more often: 2 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for open-web-calendar.

If you want the quickest setup, open-web-calendar is easier to run; docker-mailserver needs more configuration.

docker-mailserver is growing faster right now (+826 stars in 30 days).

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