What are the best free and open source email providers for Linux?

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Best free and open source email providers for Linux	Price	Platforms	Last Updated
-- Roundcube	-	-	Sep 17, 2019
-- Tutanota Mail	Free / Premium	Android / iOS / Amazon / Web	Oct 2, 2018
-- Mailpile	-	-	Oct 1, 2018

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Roundcube

Top Pro

Free and open source

Licensed under GPL v3 with code available on GitHub. See More

Top Con

Themes

Not easy to create your own themes. See More

Top Pro

Sophisticated address book

Each contact can have their e-mail address, phone number, location, photos and associated URLs added to them. You can then group contacts and address your mails to the group instead of having to enter each person separately. Additionally, you can import vCards and CSV files as contact information. And, it has LDAP connectors. See More

Top Con

Raises security concerns since it's written in PHP

The language itself and the library ecosystem has a bad security track record. See More

Top Pro

Access control support

Roundcube has built-in support for access control lists (ACL). See More

Top Con

Klu

Unfortunately, all interfaces of roundcube look very old. I hope there will be a progress soon, Google Mail and Outlook Webmail should be the role models here. But also Yahoo mail offers an intuitive design. If this open source software should survive, it must be completely renewed and bring up to new standards. See More

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Tutanota Mail

Top Pro

Open Source

cosmo's Experience

You can use it for free, but even the paid plan starts incredibly cheap and allows you to add and remove features in a modular fashion. It's also the only encrypted mail provider offering an open source Android client at this time! Not only that, but it's available from F-Droid! I highly recommend Tutanota over competitors like ProtonMail and GMail if you care about software freedom and privacy. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android / iOS / Amazon / Web

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Free

A free account is available. See More

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End-to-end encryption

Client supports end to end encryption between Tutanota users, and users may use a web interface to manage encrypted mails. See More

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Based in Germany

Tutanota's servers are located in Germany, which has strict privacy protection laws, even stronger than those of Switzerland. See More

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Mailpile

Top Pro

Early stage of development

Mailpile is in beta so it is definitely not production ready. See More

Top Pro

Portable

The whole webmail client can be carried around on your external device (such as a USB stick) and used without having admin access to install. See More

What are the best free and open source email providers for Linux?

3 Options Considered

Roundcube

My Recommendation for Roundcube

My Recommendation for Roundcube

Free and open source

Themes

Sophisticated address book

Raises security concerns since it's written in PHP

Access control support

Klu

Tutanota Mail

My Recommendation for Tutanota Mail

My Recommendation for Tutanota Mail

Open Source

Free

End-to-end encryption

Based in Germany

Mailpile

My Recommendation for Mailpile

My Recommendation for Mailpile

Early stage of development

Portable

Secure

Free and open source

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Tutanota

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