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5 posts tagged “open-source”.
- 9 min read
Announcing the MailKite Server developer API: use the client against your own server
MailKite Server now exposes a Cloud-compatible send and receive API. Point the MailKite client at your own server, keep your application code, and choose self-hosted, Cloud, or a hybrid deployment.
- 23 min read
23 open source email servers for Linux, sorted by the job each one does
Most "best open source mail server" lists put a full-stack Docker bundle and a single SMTP daemon in the same ranked table, as if you'd choose between them. You wouldn't. This is 23 Linux mail projects grouped by the slot they fill in the mail path, with licenses, languages, and activity verified on 2026-08-05, plus the part every roundup skips: what self-hosting still costs you after the install script says done.
- 4 min read
One DSN, three PHP ecosystems: MailKite's Symfony Mailer transport
mailkite/symfony-mailer resolves a mailkite+api:// DSN into a first-party Symfony Mailer transport — which means Mautic, PrestaShop, Drupal, and any plain Symfony app all get it from one package, with honest errors instead of a generic SMTP rejection.
- 3 min read
MailKite Server: our SMTP + IMAP edges are now open source
The Haraka-based MX and submission edges and the IMAP server that power MailKite are now AGPL on GitHub — self-host the whole stack, point our hosted MX at your box, or connect the same web console to MailKite Cloud.
- 19 min read
Build software that heals itself in the agentic era
An AI agent can write the fix now; the hard part is architecting your software so letting one patch production isn't reckless. Here's a design pattern for self-healing systems: never crash, turn every failure into a structured anonymous signature, and let an agent close the loop behind a sandbox and adversarial gates. Our open-source MIME parser is the worked example; the pattern applies far beyond it.