Open Source Python Post-Office Software

Fetchmail is a mail retrieval daemon that can download messages from POP3, IMAP, ODMR and ETRN-based stores, with SSL/TLS security including certificate verification, and pass downloaded mail to a local SMTP or LMTP server, or a message delivery agent such as maildrop.

ZMail allows you to send email from anyone, to anyone. You can use ZMail to send fake or anonymous emails. Have fun!

PyWebMail is a Python library and POP3 gateway that enable working with WebMail servers like with POP3 or IMAP mail server. Currently Mail.Com, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Netscape.Net, HotMail and some minor servers support is finished.

ImapGrab is a cli and gui program (written in Python) that allows you to log into an IMAP server, list mailboxes, and download selected mailboxes to mbox or maildir files. It requires getmail 4.8.2 or higher. The gui requires PyGtk 2.0 or higher.

A proxy server for gmail, that enables you to fetch your gmails using IMAP or POP3, and send mails by SMTP via your gmail account.

Sieve script editor for Gnome, easy to use.

Active Spam Killer for Windows (AfW) is a challenge/response spam filtering system for the Windows platform. Based on ASK for Linux by Marco Paganini, this project adds a POP3 client/server wrapper and web administration, as well as Windows compatibility

SMTPUTF8 is email programs that can support internationlized email addresses in UTF-8. SMTPUTF8 permits the use of email addresses that include non-ASCII characters such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK).

FrozenPop is a simple and easy to use POP3/SMTP server. Geared to accommodate multiple domains without having to create individual system accounts, FrozenPop installs < 5 mins. With MySQL authentication, creating users is simple.

Gnoptray is a mail notification utility for GNOME, that will support multiple accounts. It will sit in the notification area and display a total e-mail count. Hopefully, it will do a better job of previewing e-mail than current 'biff' like programs.

A system for filtering messages from your IMAP inbox on-demand. Filters are defined in an XML file. Matching messages can be moved, copied, or deleted. This is all independant of your choice of email client, as long as you use IMAP.

IMAP4 server working on top of SQL database (currently PostgreSQL but Oracle may work too). It has some unique features like elimination of duplicate messages throughout the whole system, possibility of clustering or load balancing etc.

ISOS is an e-mail and web server. It is designed for ease of use and provides a quick way to e-presence for small businesses and organizations who lack the experience to benefit from high performance, open source software such as Sendmail, Courier Mail,

ImapArchiver is a tool which can be used to save the all imap account into a local directory/archive. The ideal objective is to used it with cron to automatically make a back up of your imap account

ImpraStorage provided a private imap access to store large files. Each file stored on the server is split in severals random parts. Each part also contains random noise data (lenght depends on a crypt key) to ensure privacy and exclude easy merge without the corresponding key. An index of files stored is encrypt (with the symmetric-key algorithm Kirmah) and regularly updated. Once decrypt, it permit to perform search on the server and download each part. transfert process is transparent. Just vizualize locally the index of stored files and simply select files to download or upload. ImpraStorage automatically launch the parts to download, then merge parts in the appropriate way to rebuild the original file. Inversely, a file to upload is split (in several parts with addition of noise data), and ImpraStorage randomly upload each parts then update the index.

JEEPERS (Jason's Extra Easy to Program Email Response System) uses a POP3 email account to monitor email for command phrases in subject lines. Default commands for remote file storeage and retrival. (Nothing to do with mailing lists or mass emailing.)

A HTML newsletter composer for Linux. It is a simple GUI written on Python for create and send advanced HTML newsletter.

Ni!Mail is a webmail connecting to an IMAP server and using python/nevow/twisted to provide a clean and fast interface. It uses nevow livepage, a library that uses XMLHTTPRequest, to make it very dynamic.

gavamail is a POP3/IMAP server implemented in JAVA for reading your gmail e-mail with your favorite mail client. Currently only POP3 is implemented but I hope to implement IMAP too. Libraries provided by the g4j and libgmail projects are used.

UTF8SMTP is email programs (SMTP/POP3/Web-based Email Client) that can support internationlized email addresses in UTF-8.

Virtual Qmail - virtual domains management system for qmail. It is designed to be fast, reliable, and easy to use. Includes software allowing users to manage their accounts via WWW.

Python IMAP4rev1 mail protocol client class using threads for parallel operation. PLEASE NOTE - active development of this module has now moved to https://github.com/imaplib2/imaplib2

A simple pop3 server.

mailgate is a set of Python scripts we used at my former company to transfer email a) from a POP3 account to our internal mail server, b) from a POP3 account to a mailbox file and c) from a mailbox file to a SMTP server.