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docker-mailservervsTube Archivist

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

docker-mailserverTube Archivist
Score80/10072/100
Rank in category#1 of 16 in Mail Server#7 of 118 in Media Server
GitHub stars19 7048 552
Stars, last 30 days+830+83
Stable releases, 12 months26
Latest releasev16.0.1 · 4 Sept 2026v0.6.0 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITGPL-3.0
Main languageShellPython

Which one should you pick?

docker-mailserver scores 80/100 against 72/100 for Tube Archivist, so it is the safer default.

Tube Archivist ships more often: 6 stable releases in the past year, against 2 for docker-mailserver.

docker-mailserver is growing faster right now (+830 stars in 30 days).

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