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Mail-in-a-box VS Mailplane

Compare Mail-in-a-box VS Mailplane and see what are their differences

Mail-in-a-box logo Mail-in-a-box

Mail-in-a-Box provides webmail and an IMAP/SMTP server for use with mobile devices and desktop mail software and also includes contacts and calendar synchronization.

Mailplane logo Mailplane

Mailplane is the best way to use Gmail on your Mac. Use an unlimited number of accounts, get new mail notifications, use plug-ins and much much more.
  • Mail-in-a-box Landing page
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    2023-04-21
  • Mailplane Landing page
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    2021-09-20

Mail-in-a-box videos

Setup and Install your Email server easily with this Free, Open Source Option - Mail-In-A-Box.

More videos:

  • Review - Mail-in-a-Box Setup Guide (v0.16 - January 2016)
  • Review - Setting up your own mail server with Mail-In-A-Box

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Mail-in-a-box and Mailplane)
Email
86 86%
14% 14
Enterprise Communication
0 0%
100% 100
Self-hosted Email
100 100%
0% 0
Email Clients
79 79%
21% 21

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Mail-in-a-box and Mailplane

Mail-in-a-box Reviews

15 Best Email Hosting for Small Business (2019)
Mail-in-a-Box is an open source software bundle that make it easy to turn a cloud server into your own email server for multiple domains.

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Mail-in-a-box seems to be a lot more popular than Mailplane. While we know about 116 links to Mail-in-a-box, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Mailplane. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Mail-in-a-box mentions (116)

  • Ask HN: Do you run your own DNS servers?
    Mail-In-a-Box (MIAB)[1] comes with a built in nameserver. I think you may use it as a standalone DNS even for the domain names whose email is not managed by MIAB. Not sure about any benefit of doing it this way though. [1] https://mailinabox.email. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
  • Ask HN: Self Hosting an Email Server?
    I've been using https://mailinabox.email on a small VPS where I host a few other websites and projects. I'd recommend it for the management aspect: It has backup scripts and a UI for let's encrypt and dns entries. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
  • Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future
    I don't see why we are a long way away. At the sandstorm end, we need to get to the point, where all updates (of both sandstorm and the apps) on the user machine are automatic. Much like they are automatic on various OSes (mobile OSes in particular but also MacOS/Windows). This is not impossible if a single OS like Debian-testing is targeted. Mailinabox [1] almost does it. They target Ubuntu stable, and upgrades... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
  • [advice needed] - Selfhosted Mail Server
    If you have a better solution, for example a good provider who offer agency packages which allows many domains and there is no catch, for example very small disk space, then hit me right away. Otherwise, please share your experience with hosting your own mail service. I found https://mailinabox.email/ and https://www.iredmail.org/ for example, but never had any experience with neither of them. Source: 12 months ago
  • what to use for self hosting email
    Mailinabox.email works great on a basic vps. Source: about 1 year ago
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Mailplane mentions (2)

  • Email: Client or Browser?
    I’ve been a happy Mailplane user for years, highly recommend. It’s a macOS Gmail client, very minimal and robust. Source: over 2 years ago
  • what gmail client do you use?
    I use Mailplane, and have been doing so for about ten years now. Very stable. https://mailplaneapp.com/. Source: over 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Mail-in-a-box and Mailplane, you can also consider the following products

mailcow - An open source mailserver suite.

Kiwi for Gmail - Dedicated Gmail client with clean integration of Google Calendar, Contacts, Google Drive, and...

iRedMail - A fully fledged, free email server solution, an open source project (GPL v2).

Shift - Shift is the ultimate email client for managing Mail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, Asana, Jira, Evernote, and all your other favourite apps

Modoboa - Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.

Airmail - Airmail is a lightweight and lightning fast mail client for Mac.