this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2026
-18 points (21.9% liked)

Open Source

50105 readers
196 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Requirements

  1. FOSS
  2. No, minimal, or human-checked AI code
  3. Free-to-use
  4. I'm asking for FOSS PROVIDERS, not proprietary providers with FOSS clients
  5. Not under authoritarian juristiction
  6. At least one independent security audit
  7. Lightweight
  8. Low on memory

Optional things:

  1. Self-hostable
  2. Environmental ideals
  3. Under European juristiction
  4. Not hosted on Github

Suggest MULTUPLE providers as I seek to decentralize the services I use ad much as possible

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember there being a lot of them hosted in eu when i was looking for one to host my domain email Mailfence comes to mind but there were a lot more

[–] MisterFred@reddthat.com -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mailfence has an open backend, that does NOT mean it's open-source

[–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago

You could look for alternatives to that.

There are options like Roundcube and Stalwart if you want to host, nothing is more private than hosting it yourself, only downside is maintaining the uptime