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Mail-in-a-Boxvsupstat

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

Mail-in-a-Boxupstat
Score72/10043/100
Rank in category#3 of 16 in Mail Server#11 of 12 in Uptime Monitoring
GitHub stars15 446200
Stars, last 30 days+27+0
Stable releases, 12 months40
Latest releasev77 · 26 Sept 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseCC0-1.0MIT
Main languagePythonTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Mail-in-a-Box scores 72/100 against 43/100 for upstat, so it is the safer default.

Mail-in-a-Box ships more often: 4 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for upstat.

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

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