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docker-mailservervsTeslaMate

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

docker-mailserverTeslaMate
Score80/10074/100
Rank in category#1 of 16 in Mail Server#1 of 5 in Vehicle Management
GitHub stars19 7029 200
Stars, last 30 days+829+169
Stable releases, 12 months210
Latest releasev16.0.1 · 4 Sept 2026v4.4.0 · 23 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageShellElixir

Which one should you pick?

docker-mailserver scores 80/100 against 74/100 for TeslaMate, so it is the safer default.

TeslaMate ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for docker-mailserver.

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

docker-mailserver is growing faster right now (+829 stars in 30 days).

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