DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange and Office 365 Gateway by mguessan

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Verdict 39/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 3/5 setup difficulty

Self-host DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange and Office 365 Gateway on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
39 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
3 /5
External DB / setup
GitHub stars
719
105 forks

About DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange and Office 365 Gateway

From the project's README at github.com/mguessan/davmail. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mguessan/davmail) [](https://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/files/latest/download) [](https://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/files/latest/download)

[](https://sonarcloud.io/project/overview?id=mguessandavmail) [](https://sonarcloud.io/project/overview?id=mguessandavmail) [](https://sonarcloud.io/project/overview?id=mguessandavmail)

Security note:_** DavMail does not depend on Log4J2 and is thus not vulnerable to CVE-2021-44228

Ever wanted to get rid of Outlook? DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP gateway allowing users to use any mail client with Exchange, even from the internet through Outlook Web Access on any platform, tested on macOS, Linux and Windows

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
61
maturity
30
community
23
security
70
sustainability
23
adoption
25

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 719 github.com/mguessan/davmail
GitHub forks 105 github.com/mguessan/davmail
Docker Hub pulls 0 hub.docker.com / mguessan

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age7.9 yearssince Jun 2018
Last commit3 days agoMay 4, 2026

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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Ready to self-host DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange and Office 365 Gateway?

Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.

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