Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to InletOps
Hosted + self-hosted inbound email with API & AI
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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inbound ▲227Hey HN! I've been working on Inbound (inbound.new) - an email system that lets you programmatically manage email addresses and route them to AI agents, webhooks, or forward them anywhere. The core idea: instead of manually managing email addresses, you create them on-demand via API and route incoming emails to your AI agents or other automated systems. For AI Agents: Create [email protected] and emails get sent to your AI agent as webhooks. Your agent can reply using our SDK. Perfect for AI customer support or automated responses. For Email Forwarding: Set up [email protected] to…
2025 · inbound.new · its alternatives →
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Everything you need to start sending newsletters, drip campaigns, transactional emails. Mailcoach is a fully featured email marketing platform built for growing creators, developers, and businesses.
2020 · mailcoach.app · its alternatives →
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Scoutflo Deploy▲501Automate self-hosting of commercial open source products
2023 · its alternatives →
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2020 · imapapi.com · its alternatives →
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It's a self-hosted mailbox for all emails coming to your own domains, with Web interface and CLI included. Notes: - all emails share the same inbox, as long as set your DNS correctly - Web client via self-hosted Docker or Cloudflare Pages - need additional access controls, may use Basic Auth or Forward Auth with Cloudflare deployment
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mailcheap▲123Email hosting, dedicated email servers, API-first platform
2018 · mailcheap.co · its alternatives →
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Introducing Posthorn, a self hosted email gateway. One docker container (or Go binary) between every self hosted app on your VPS and your transactional email provider. Set up Posthorn once, point your apps to it, done. I was trying to deploy Ghost on a DigitalOcean droplet and found that DO and many different VPS services have started to block the default SMTP ports to try to combat the various types of abuse they get. To actually configure my app, I had to hack together a Postfix relay. In another project, I had a static site which had a contact form, but my free Formspree account was…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Deliveryman.ai▲186Cold email infrastructure on autopilot without Gsuite
Jun 2026 · deliveryman.ai · its alternatives →
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EmailEngine▲165Access any email account to receive/send emails with an API
2021 · emailengine.app · its alternatives →
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Extract data from emails. Automate your workflow.
2016 · mailparser.io · its alternatives →
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The Cloud Native Tunnel
2019 · inlets.dev · its alternatives →
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Turn any email inbox into a native interface for AI agents
Apr 2026 · blog.cloudflare.com · its alternatives →
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Mailway▲56OSS and self hostable catch-all incoming email routing
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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1,000+ Emails per Second with 99%+ Deliverability
Mar 2026 · mailercloud.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We're a 5 person team working on simplifying the creation of email apps. Right now, most email services focus on outbound emails (newsletters, transactional, delivery), but that doesn't solve the fact that we all hate receiving them. You can try it at https://mailscript.com Mailscript lets you create programmable email addresses. It works headless, via the CLI, API (we use Swagger to support most languages). You can even run it as a daemon on a server (to run functions when emails arrive). Once you get [email protected], you can create as many aliases as you'd like…
2021 · its alternatives →
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2022 · setops.co · its alternatives →
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