# Install mox with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix Modern full-featured open source secure mail server. Version 0.0.15 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:mox ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install mox ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install mox ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: mail/mox/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#mox ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mox/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:mox - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.0.15 - **Source summary:** Modern full-featured open source secure mail server - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - mox (cli) - mox (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.0.15 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/mjl-/mox - Upstream latest detected: v0.0.15 (current) - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. ## Project history and usage Mox is an all-in-one mail server project whose site says work started in 2021 in response to email administration becoming concentrated around large cloud and hosting providers and to the operational burden of assembling many separate mail components. The project frames that burden as both usability and safety work: modern email requires SMTP, IMAP, authentication, TLS, DNS records, filtering, and policy protocols, often spread across several daemons. ### Project history Mox's major technical milestone is its integrated design. The README describes one secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email, with SMTP for receiving, submission, and delivery; IMAP4 for mail clients; webmail; SPF, DKIM, and DMARC; DMARC aggregate reports; reputation tracking; junk filtering; and setup flows that print the DNS records an administrator must add. The project site also describes a quickstart path and a `mox localserve` mode for local SMTP, IMAP, and webmail testing without a full public-domain setup. ### How it is used In package-manager terms, Mox competes less with a single package than with stacks such as Postfix plus Dovecot plus filtering and policy tools. Its appeal is to self-hosters and small-domain administrators who want one Go program, one configuration model, and built-in modern mail hygiene instead of composing a mail system from many long-lived Unix services. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: mox.conf, domains.conf ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** mox - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - mox: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mox/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - MacPorts - mox: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: mail/mox/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Security and crypto packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/security-crypto-tools/) - Matched security, identity, cryptography, password, signing, or certificate metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [davmail](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/davmail/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, imap, networking, smtp. - [dovecot](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dovecot/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, imap, mail-server, networking. - [exim](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/exim/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, mail-server, networking, smtp. - [haraka](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/haraka/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, mail-server, networking, smtp. - [mailutils](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mailutils/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, imap, mail-server, networking. - [caddy](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/caddy/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, tls. - [catgirl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/catgirl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, tls. - [checkdmarc](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/checkdmarc/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, dmarc, networking. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mox.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/mox.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph