Recommendation: Mail-Archiver – simple & efficient email archiving

[Kubernetes]

Hi everyone,

Since there are frequent questions here about email archiving solutions, I’d like to share a small but very practical open-source project that I’ve been using for about a week now:

Project: Mail-Archiver on GitHub

I’ve been running Mail-Archiver locally and I’m extremely satisfied so far.
The setup was straightforward, the interface is clean, and the archiving works reliably and efficiently. For me, this tool fills exactly the gap I’ve been looking to solve, without adding unnecessary complexity.

Maybe this will be interesting for some of you as well.
If anyone has questions about the setup or integration, I’m happy to help.

Best,
Michael

[joseph]

Is this an alternative to mailpiler? cc @luckow @milian.hackradt

[timconsidine]

@Kubernetes did you deploy on Cloudron or via docker compose ?

[Kubernetes]

@timconsidine No, but I did deploy on my server at home via docker compose.

[humptydumpty]

I haven't looked into email archiving since I started self-hosting, but I was thinking that I could simply download the mail folder from the server and open/view the emails locally on my PC via some client. Is this possible? If not, I'm guessing this is where an app like the above comes into play right?

[necrevistonnezr]

Sure.
Real mail archiving retains all mails, even after they get deleted by someone or some event (audit-proof)

[necrevistonnezr]

There’s also OpenArchiver, pretty new, which looks nice (mentioned here: https://forum.cloudron.io/post/111626, GitHub here: https://github.com/LogicLabs-OU/OpenArchiver). Standard Docker.

The decisive feature for any Mail Archiver is search. It doesn’t help if a message was archived when I can’t find it. The gold standard MailStore (free „Home“ edition but Windows only) even indexes attachments that are full-text searchable.