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Africa's first open-source mail infrastructure, built for sovereignty and privacy by design. Your data, on your terms, owned by the institution it serves. Open source Q3 2026.
Mailyte
Mailyte · Open source Q3 2026The problem
The mail and collaboration infrastructure that runs governments, banks and universities across Africa is, almost without exception, owned and operated elsewhere. The data, the policy, the uptime and the price all sit outside the territories they serve.
Mailyte is built on a simple position: a continent cannot be sovereign in policy while renting its inbox.
What it does
4 capabilities, built around intent.
Open-source core
The mail, calendar and collaboration server, released under a permissive licence in Q3 2026.
Sovereign deployment
Designed to be operated by national, institutional and enterprise teams on their own terms.
Managed cloud
An optional managed plane for teams that want operations handled, without losing portability.
Federation-first
Built to interoperate, not to lock in.
How it works
One conceptual picture, not an architecture diagram.
Open-source core
The mail, calendar and collaboration server, released under a permissive licence in Q3 2026.
Sovereign deployment
Designed to be operated by national, institutional and enterprise teams on their own terms.
Managed cloud
An optional managed plane for teams that want operations handled, without losing portability.
+1 more capabilities below
Who it's for
Governments and ministries
That need a mail estate they actually own.
Universities and research
That need open infrastructure, not opaque suites.
Operators and developers
Who want to contribute to, run and extend an open standard.
Impact
Success looks like an institution that can answer, in one sentence, where its mail lives, who operates it, and what it would cost to leave.
Roadmap
From closed alpha to open source, in four quarters.
Q1 2026
Closed alpha
Selected institutional partners running sovereign Mailyte deployments.
Q2 2026
Closed alpha · expanded
Broader alpha with universities and ministries. Federation hardening.
Q3 2026
Public open source
Mailyte core released under a permissive licence. Public contributions open.
Q4 2026
Managed cloud
Optional managed plane, for teams that want operations handled without losing portability.
Be in the room when Mailyte goes open.
We are taking a small number of launch partners (institutions and operators) and a wider circle of contributors into the run-up to the Q3 2026 release.
Where it's used
Real settings, real people.
On-territory mail estateOn-territory mail estate
Open infrastructure, not opaque suitesOpen infrastructure, not opaque suites
Federation-first, portable by defaultFederation-first, portable by default
Become a Mailyte launch partner.
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