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Self-hosted / open sourceBusiness Email & GroupwareHeadquarters: FR

Modoboa: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Modoboa is an open-source mail server platform for organisations and individuals who want to run their own email. It bundles the components needed to install and secure a mail server, including webmail, calendars and address books, filtering rules, an auto-responder, administration statistics and a migration tool. It supports SPF, DKIM and DMARC for sender authentication. Modoboa is installed on a server that the operator controls, and the installer covers most of the setup.

The project is published by NGYNLABS, a single-member limited liability company (EURL) with its registered office in Nantes, France. The software is released under the ISC licence, as shown in the GitHub repository, so the code can be inspected and modified. Because it runs on infrastructure chosen by the operator, the organisation decides where its data is stored, and no vendor-hosted service is required. Paid professional services are offered. Operations, updates and backups remain the responsibility of the operator.

Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
HeadquartersFR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryBusiness Email & Groupware
TypeProduct
Websitemodoboa.org ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Modoboa

The European alternatives to Modoboa come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Modoboa

Modoboa is headquartered in FR and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Modoboa scores best on data residency.

Modoboa is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Modoboa together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Modoboa?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Modoboa include Axigen, Benno MailArchiv and BlueMind. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Modoboa?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Modoboa include Benno MailArchiv, CipherMail, Dovecot and EGroupware. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Modoboa GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Modoboa is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Modoboa an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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