bichon

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.

Bichon is in fact AGPL: https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon/blob/main/LICENSE It must not be using any RustMailer code.

A small warning for anyone wanting to use this in a setting with legal requirements: > Please note that the term “sync” in Bichon may be misleading—“download” might be more accurate. [1] If an email is deleted before bichon can download it, then it may not get archived. Most of the time the legal requirements are, that all emails hitting an inbox have to be archived, regardless of user action. For those cases, a solution 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...

via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429250

For emails, here is my current simple backup setup. Of course, I’m also looking to do this without having to open Thunderbird, or I might have an old laptop running it. So, work-in-progress. For the email accounts I want a backup, I set it to spew out POP3 without doing anything (don’t mark read or delete). I set up Thunderbird with that POP3. It has a backup copy of all the emails. I’ve had searchable emails since like 2004/2005, and I’ve occasionally replied to people and gotten back in touch with very old friends from the Internet. I saw an open-source tool sometime back (I think, here on Hacker News) that backs up your IMAP mails with a nicely done interface. That would be nice to 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.ycom

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