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Mailcowvsrss2newsletter

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

Mailcowrss2newsletter
Score77/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 106 in Email#77 of 106 in Email
GitHub stars13 713282
Stars, last 30 days+215—
Stable releases, 12 months160
Latest release2026-10 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-3.0AGPL-3.0
Main languageJavaScriptPython

Which one should you pick?

Mailcow scores 77/100 against 46/100 for rss2newsletter, so it is the safer default.

Mailcow ships more often: 16 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for rss2newsletter.

If you want the quickest setup, rss2newsletter is easier to run; Mailcow needs more configuration.

Mailcow is growing faster right now (+215 stars in 30 days).

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