Compare the Top Small Business Mail Servers as of November 2025

What are Small Business Mail Servers?

A mail server facilitates the sending and receiving of emails. It acts as an intermediary between email senders and receivers, providing a secure communication channel for emails to be stored and routed. Mail servers provide features such as spam filtering, antivirus scanning, storage limits for individual users, message forwarding rules and other services. They are often used by businesses to securely manage their communications with employees, customers and partners. Compare and read user reviews of the best Small Business Mail Servers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

  • 1
    MDaemon Email Server

    MDaemon Email Server

    MDaemon Technologies

    The MDaemon Email Server was one of the first Microsoft Exchange alternatives offered to businesses around the world. It has been developed with the ongoing input from IT professionals seeking an easy-to-use, reliable, and secure mail server that does not require expensive administration or impose high per-user costs. It simplifies messaging and collaboration with a focus on security and privacy, an intuitive, user-friendly web mail design and by offering administrators Mobile Device Management, Business Instant Messaging, Document Sharing, and other enterprise-class features that can be managed with minimal support. MDaemon Email Server supports IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 protocols, and features include: integrated webmail with IM and document sharing, Outlook support, compromised password alerts, color-coded log files for quick and easy troubleshooting, customizable email policy setting to fit your unique network environment, Mobile Device Management, Account Hijack Detection, and more.
    Leader badge
    Starting Price: $360 per year
  • 2
    KumoMTA

    KumoMTA

    Kumo Corp

    KumoMTA is an Open-Source, enterprise-grade email message transfer agent (MTA) software for sending high-volume, business-critical emails. KumoMTA is typically chosen by high-volume email users looking to replace PowerMTA, Momentum, or traditional Open Source MTAs. KumoMTA offers high-performance message relay to the tune of millions of messages per hour per server, combined with extreme flexibility and configurability through its use of a Lua scripting engine for configuration and message management. For more information on KumoMTA see our Sourceforge project page.
    Starting Price: $0
  • 3
    XgenPlus

    XgenPlus

    Bharat Sync Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

    XgenPlus is a next-generation, feature-rich, and highly secure email solution designed to meet the growing communication needs of businesses, enterprises, and individuals. Developed by Bharat Sync Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Xgen Email stands out as the first email service in the world to support Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), enabling users to create email addresses in multiple Indian languages such as Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, and Urdu. With cutting-edge security features, real-time tracking, advanced collaboration tools, and seamless mobile and desktop integration, Xgen Email ensures that users get the most efficient, private, and productive email experience. Whether you're a startup, a large enterprise, or an individual professional, Xgen Email is the best choice for a secure, smart, and efficient email solution.
    Starting Price: Free
  • 4
    Kerio Connect
    Secure, enterprise-style email, calendar & collaboration without the high cost. Kerio Connect delivers all the features and functionality for collaboration and messaging solution without the complexity and high price tag of other systems. Email is integrated with shared calendars and scheduling, contacts management, tasks, notes, shared and public folders, and instant messaging. Synchronize messages by direct push to your choice of mobile device via Microsoft ActiveSync. Instant Messaging is XMPP-compatible and can be used from various 3rd party chat/IM applications on desktop and mobile phones. You can install Kerio Connect in 10 minutes and users can be up and running in just 10 minutes more. Kerio Connect can be deployed on-premises or in partner-hosted cloud environments. Deploy for users on Mac, Windows, or Linux; plus full support for Outlook (Windows and Mac) and many other IMAP or POP compliant email clients.
    Starting Price: $36.50
  • 5
    Kingmailer

    Kingmailer

    KingSMTP.com

    KingSMTP.com (formerly known as Kingmailer.co, founded in 2017) is a Transactional SMTP service provider. It’s designed to help businesses reliably send emails such as order confirmations, password resets, or notifications, but it’s not intended for mass email campaigns or marketing.
    Starting Price: $0 per month
  • 6
    SmarterMail

    SmarterMail

    SmarterTools

    SmarterMail is the ideal Microsoft Exchange alternative. It’s the only business email server on the market that offers native support for Exchange protocols: MAPI, EWS, and EAS, without requiring any additional software or plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook or other desktop or mobile clients. It delivers all the features of Exchange at a fraction of the cost. SmarterMail also includes audio/video group chat and Online Meetings for team collaboration at no extra charge. Its newest feature, the SmarterMail Marketplace, enables seamless integration with platforms like OnlyOffice, Collabora, and AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Available for both Windows and Linux, SmarterMail has lower hardware requirements, superior stability, and reduced maintenance costs. It’s the perfect solution for businesses of any size or industry seeking Exchange-level functionality, without the high costs.
    Starting Price: $500.00/one-time
  • 7
    Axigen

    Axigen

    Axigen Messaging

    Offer your customers secure, business-level email hosting with various value added services. An excellent solution for SPs, suitable for thousands to millions of users. Acquire new customers by offering a premium email server solution with a high degree of flexibility, allowing you to automate it within your existing infrastructure. Manage your email, organize and share calendars, sync your mobile devices, all based on a secure and powerful mail server. The perfect answer for businesses of all sizes. Axigen is quite knowledgeable, out of the many hats it wears, take a peek inside and choose what fits you. Manage your email and get stuff done easily with calendars, tasks or notes. Enjoy desktop usability in your browser via keyboard navigation and shortcuts, drag-and-drop, "live" email list view, frequent folders, email filters, out-of-office messages, individual blacklist / whitelist.
    Starting Price: $266 per year
  • 8
    MailSite Fusion

    MailSite Fusion

    Rockliffe Systems

    MailSite Fusion is a Windows email, calendar and contact server with over-the-air push to all types of smartphones, Full native Outlook sync, a sophisticated AJAX web client and a calendar and contact sharing server, which can synchronize and publish to many other clients. MailSite has been voted in the top 3 mail server products by readers of Windows IT Pro Magazine 3 years running. Your email services are critical to your organization. So you need to be sure that you select a quality product, from a company with a proven track record in communication software. So, why this mail server? Because Rockliffe understands your concerns, we have been specializing in developing and refining our email server and email security software for business and service providers since 1995. Built from the ground up to be fast, stable and secure, MailSite Fusion is ready to meet the needs and requirements that matter to you most.
    Starting Price: $90 per year
  • 9
    Kolab Now

    Kolab Now

    Apheleia IT AG

    Secure and private email, calendars and more. 100% Free & Open Source Software (FOSS). Open standards and formats used for all storage and communication. No vendor lock-in. All data stored under Swiss jurisdiction. User data never transmitted to any third party without explicit consent. GDPR, HIPPA and PCI compliant. Built secure from the ground up. Supports perfect forward secrecy (PFS). End-to-end encryption available. No back doors. Our documentation contains answers to most frequently asked questions and much more. Are you looking for an instant answer to your question or a quick solution for your problem, our Knowledgebase is where you will likely find it. If you can’t find the answer in our documentation, you can always contact support.
    Starting Price: $9.90 per month
  • 10
    Zentyal

    Zentyal

    Zentyal

    Join Windows® clients to the domain and manage them transparently. No disruption to your users, no user or device CALs. Comes with industry-standard SMTP and POP3/IMAP mail server built upon the most established technologies and protocols. Guarantees reliable and secure Internet access and helps to manage all the basic network infrastructure services. Receive software updates until the EOL-date of each version and get support when needed. Zentyal offers an easy to use Windows Server® alternative. It comes with native compatibility with Microsoft Active Directory® allowing you to join Windows® clients to the domain and manage them easily, causing no disruption to your users. Zentyal includes the industry-standard SMTP and POP3/IMAP mail servers built upon the most established technologies and protocols. Gives you the opportunity to deploy Zentyal as a mail server, domain & directory server with mail or all-in one server.
    Starting Price: €195 per server
  • 11
    Scalix

    Scalix

    Scalix

    Offer a high value Outlook experience with push email, PIM, group calendaring, free/busy services, public folders, delegation, and more. Increase margins with lower server counts and compelling subscription pricing. Reduce your licensing costs and leverage your teams' existing skills with a Linux-based platform. Scalix starter packs are robust, single-server messaging solutions designed to provide smaller businesses and organizations with a full featured email and collaboration solution. Scalix small business edition is our single-server solution designed for small businesses. It includes a rich package of business functionality including a means to instantly recover deleted items on a user-specific basis, wireless device support and more.
  • 12
    Mailtraq

    Mailtraq

    Mailtraq

    Mailtraq Professional mail server software is the complete email server for business. It does everything you need at a great price and without hassles. Mailtraq is the ideal Microsoft Exchange Alternative: easy to deploy and simple to manage. Low license cost, no server-CALs, and stability in operation make Mailtraq email server software the choice for all SMB and SOHO businesses. Email is at the heart of your company or organization, and where those messages are stored is of vital importance to the long-term health of your firm. There is a degree of hassle and expense involved in running your own email server but it gives you complete physical control over who has access to your email. If you use your ISP's service then their system administrators can see and read your messages. Similarly, if you use a SAAS supplier for a hosted email service, and if you use a Cloud provider you not only don't know who is reading your email, but don't even know where in the world it is kept.
  • 13
    Halon

    Halon

    Halon

    Halon MTA makes you more competitive, by secure and timely delivery of important emails and rapid feature implementation. At the same time, you will cut your development and maintenance costs by half. The Halon MTA is a flexible email operation and security platform. It enables organizations that operate large-scale email services to offer competitive features by rapid implementation and to lower maintenance costs through reliable deployment and reduced complexity. Halon MTA consolidates your email infrastructure, reducing risk and complexity. It makes email infrastructure scalable, simple to manage, rich in functionality and easy to evolve. Suffering from slow and costly implementation of email features and new standards, leading to poor end customer experience? Halon increases email service competitiveness by enabling rapid implementation and reliable deployment. In contrast to traditional layered email infrastructure, Halon's holistic approach cuts system complexity.
  • Previous
  • You're on page 1
  • Next