rustmailer/bichon
Bichon – A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
83/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 20
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 2.0
- age_days: 288
- days_rel: 14
- days_push: 8
- n_releases_24m: 45
Adoption not part of the score
1931 stars · 79 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Bichon is a self-hosted email archiving server written in Rust that downloads emails from IMAP accounts, builds a full-text search index, and serves a REST API with an embedded WebUI. It is designed for long-term email preservation, unified cross-account search, and programmatic access to archived mail.
Use cases
- archive emails from multiple IMAP accounts into one searchable store
- search across all my archived mailboxes with full-text search
- back up my email for long-term preservation
- self-host an email archive with a web interface
- programmatically access archived emails via a REST API
- receive emails via SMTP into an archive
- compress and deduplicate email storage
When to choose
- you need long-term, searchable email archiving rather than an email client
- you want a lightweight, high-performance self-hosted solution in Rust
- you need unified search across multiple IMAP accounts
- you want programmatic access to archived email via REST API
When to avoid
- you need to send, compose, forward, or reply to emails
- you want a full email client or webmail replacement
- you need a managed/cloud-hosted archiving service
Facets
application · maturity active
search-engine email backup compression http-server api-framework caching email self-hosted developer-tools windows self-hosted rust email-archiving imap full-text-search tantivy oauth2 webui rest-api openapi mail-backup search backup linux macos docker web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon · fetched 2026-08-28 · e4532bc04434
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| rustmailer/bichon | main | 83 |
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