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Mail-in-a-box VS Microsoft 365

Compare Mail-in-a-box VS Microsoft 365 and see what are their differences

Mail-in-a-box logo Mail-in-a-box

Mail-in-a-Box provides webmail and an IMAP/SMTP server for use with mobile devices and desktop mail software and also includes contacts and calendar synchronization.

Microsoft 365 logo Microsoft 365

Boost your productivity with reliable access anywhere with services like email, calendar, file sharing, meetings, instant messaging, and Office Online
  • Mail-in-a-box Landing page
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    2023-04-21
  • Microsoft 365 Landing page
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    2022-04-16

Mail-in-a-box videos

Setup and Install your Email server easily with this Free, Open Source Option - Mail-In-A-Box.

More videos:

  • Review - Mail-in-a-Box Setup Guide (v0.16 - January 2016)
  • Review - Setting up your own mail server with Mail-In-A-Box

Microsoft 365 videos

What is Office 365

More videos:

  • Review - The Merger - S3E8 - The Office In Review
  • Review - Performance Review - S2E8 - The Office in Review
  • Review - Checking Out Microsoft Office 365
  • Review - Microsoft Office 365 review: Online, offline, any good?
  • Review - All 9 Seasons of The Office Ranked!
  • Review - ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ What is Microsoft 365 - Explained
  • Review - Is a Microsoft 365 Subscription Worth It?

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Mail-in-a-box and Microsoft 365)
Email
100 100%
0% 0
Office Suites
0 0%
100% 100
Self-hosted Email
100 100%
0% 0
Office & Productivity
0 0%
100% 100

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Mail-in-a-box and Microsoft 365

Mail-in-a-box Reviews

15 Best Email Hosting for Small Business (2019)
Mail-in-a-Box is an open source software bundle that make it easy to turn a cloud server into your own email server for multiple domains.

Microsoft 365 Reviews

  1. Always backup your Office 365 data

    Microsoft Office 365 is an amazing software that helps companies establish their business, so a backup is a must since Microsoft is not offering the proper backup.

    ๐Ÿ Competitors: Google Docs
    ๐Ÿ‘ Pros:    Great set of functions
    ๐Ÿ‘Ž Cons:    No backup

112 Best Chrome Extensions You Should Try (2021 List)
Office Editing For Docs, Sheets & Slides is an offline chrome extension that helps you edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files without Office installed on your PC. It opens Docx and other files in a new tab instead of downloading them locally.
The BEST Email Hosting Providers for Small Business in 2021
There are 4 deployment steps to set up an account on Microsoft 365 Business. The initial step is acquiring a subscription and assigning Microsoft 365 Business licenses to the user. Then you use the set-up wizard to configure the account. Once you install the Office apps on your devices, the final step is to prepare your PCs by using the Windows AutoPilot.

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Mail-in-a-box should be more popular than Microsoft 365. It has been mentiond 115 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Mail-in-a-box mentions (115)

  • Ask HN: Self Hosting an Email Server?
    I've been using https://mailinabox.email on a small VPS where I host a few other websites and projects. I'd recommend it for the management aspect: It has backup scripts and a UI for let's encrypt and dns entries. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future
    I don't see why we are a long way away. At the sandstorm end, we need to get to the point, where all updates (of both sandstorm and the apps) on the user machine are automatic. Much like they are automatic on various OSes (mobile OSes in particular but also MacOS/Windows). This is not impossible if a single OS like Debian-testing is targeted. Mailinabox [1] almost does it. They target Ubuntu stable, and upgrades... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • [advice needed] - Selfhosted Mail Server
    If you have a better solution, for example a good provider who offer agency packages which allows many domains and there is no catch, for example very small disk space, then hit me right away. Otherwise, please share your experience with hosting your own mail service. I found https://mailinabox.email/ and https://www.iredmail.org/ for example, but never had any experience with neither of them. Source: 10 months ago
  • what to use for self hosting email
    Mailinabox.email works great on a basic vps. Source: 11 months ago
  • Email server management on linux
    I have used mailinabox for many years on a digitalocean droplet. I've recently added-on a small-time SMTP relay provider who is using mxroute as their upstream service. Source: 12 months ago
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Microsoft 365 mentions (12)

  • Need to count calls on certain days in certain time slots
    Yes it does change, will not work for 2016, but it works for excel online at office.com, which is free with a microsoft account. Source: 5 months ago
  • Change SharePoint Start Page for All
    When our users go to office.com, login and click the waffle for SharePoint, I want to change this landing page. Right now, it goes to https://ourdomain.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx and once users are in SP, if they ever click the home button it will direct them to this page as well. I want to change this to a new site we created that makes browsing our sites and sharing information/events much... Source: 5 months ago
  • Has anyone seen same behavior with AAD laptops reaching out to internal DCs on ports 88, 389, and 445
    Authentication happens through a 3rd party so when we try to login to office.com with our company accounts it redirect us to this 3rd party company that handles our logins. Source: 5 months ago
  • Where is the Copilot in Excel?
    I've looked in office.com (using Chrome) and Excel 365 for Mac (Version 16.79). Nothing in the top-right corner except "Analyze Data". And when I try to search for in the the Tell Me or Help menu, it acts like it has no idea what Copilot is. Source: 6 months ago
  • Autopilot "other user" login. Also "incorrect password".
    The password change goes through fine though. We can verify this by going to office.com on another laptop. Source: 6 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Mail-in-a-box and Microsoft 365, you can also consider the following products

mailcow - An open source mailserver suite.

LibreOffice - Free office suite, open source, and compatible with .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx files. Updated regularly โ€“ download for free. Originally based on OpenOffice.org.

iRedMail - A fully fledged, free email server solution, an open source project (GPL v2).

Apache OpenOffice - Apache OpenOffice is an open source, office document productivity suite.

Modoboa - Modoboa is a mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.

Google Workspace - Google's encompassing suite of cloud-based business apps.