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MailuvsFerrite Telegram Server

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

MailuFerrite Telegram Server
Score69/10039/100
Rank in category#8 of 106 in Email#88 of 110 in Chat
GitHub stars7 593177
Stars, last 30 days+70—
Stable releases, 12 months220
Latest release2024.06.67 · 23 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languagePythonC#

Which one should you pick?

Mailu scores 69/100 against 39/100 for Ferrite Telegram Server, so it is the safer default.

Mailu ships more often: 22 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Ferrite Telegram Server.

If you want the quickest setup, Mailu is easier to run; Ferrite Telegram Server needs more configuration.

Mailu is growing faster right now (+70 stars in 30 days).

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