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Bichon – A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2025-12-30 · latest 2026-01-11

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  1. You can check out https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon/wiki/Using-Bichonctl-Fo... — it explains how to use bichonctl to batch-import .eml files into Bichon. This makes it easy to ingest Maildir or any folder of EMLs for indexing and search.
  2. Bichon is in fact AGPL: https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon/blob/main/LICENSE It must not be using any RustMailer code.
  3. …like mailpiler is better. Just BCC any incoming and outgoing mail to mailpiler and that is it. [1] https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon/wiki/FAQ-(Frequently-As...
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    Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
    story by rendx · 2026-01-10 · 39 comments
  5. …have. Edit: Perhaps Bichon,[1] mentioned somewhere in the other comment threads[2] was the one. 1. https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429250
    comment by Brajeshwar · 2025-12-30 · in Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts
  6. I've been meaning to try this tool for backing up. I'm curious if anyone else has tried this. https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon
    comment by venusenvy47 · 2025-12-30 · in Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts