Bichon - Lightweight Rust-Based Email Archiving System with Full-Text Search

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• Bichon - Lightweight Rust-Based Email Archiving System with Full-Text Search

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• Main Page: https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon
• Git: https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon
• Licence: AGPL-3.0
• Dockerfile: Yes
• Docker-compose: Yes - Example configuration
• Demo: No public demo available

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• Summary:
  • Lightweight, high-performance email archiving system built in Rust that synchronizes emails from IMAP servers and indexes them for full-text search
  • Features multi-account sync, OAuth2 authentication, unified search across accounts, compressed storage with deduplication, and email import from EML/MBOX/PST formats
  • Built with Rust backend using Poem, React/TypeScript frontend, Tantivy for search, and supports multi-user access with RBAC

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• Notes:
  • Perfect for organizations needing fast, efficient email archiving with powerful search capabilities and no external dependencies
  • AGPL license requires source code sharing for modifications, and focuses purely on archiving/searching rather than email client functionality

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• Alternative to / Libhunt link: https://openarchiver.com/, https://github.com/s1t5/mail-archiver, https://www.mailpiler.org/
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