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Mail-in-a-Boxvsstorj

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

Mail-in-a-Boxstorj
Score72/10061/100
Rank in category#3 of 16 in Mail Server#4 of 7 in Distributed Storage
GitHub stars15 4463 284
Stars, last 30 days+27+2
Stable releases, 12 months439
Latest releasev77 · 26 Sept 2026v1.165.6 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseCC0-1.0AGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonGo

Which one should you pick?

Mail-in-a-Box scores 72/100 against 61/100 for storj, so it is the safer default.

storj ships more often: 39 stable releases in the past year, against 4 for Mail-in-a-Box.

If you want the quickest setup, Mail-in-a-Box is easier to run; storj needs more configuration.

Mail-in-a-Box is growing faster right now (+27 stars in 30 days).

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