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Mailcowvswlgblock

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

Mailcowwlgblock
Score77/10034/100
Rank in category#2 of 106 in Email#72 of 78 in Security
GitHub stars13 715177
Stars, last 30 days+205+0
Stable releases, 12 months160
Latest release2026-10 · 21 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseGPL-3.0Other
Main languageJavaScriptC

Which one should you pick?

Mailcow scores 77/100 against 34/100 for wlgblock, so it is the safer default.

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

Mailcow is growing faster right now (+205 stars in 30 days).

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