> Core Engine (Storage & Search): Tantivy[1] > Acts as both the primary storage for email content and the full-text search index. This unified approach ensures high performance and eliminates data redundancy.
Is what you're looking for a pretty good fit for how email was originally used? Or am missing something obvious
I’ve also been considering packaging it as a desktop application so that non-technical users can use it more easily, since there are Rust projects that can help wrap Bichon into a desktop app.
> 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...
Author, is anything like that possible/planned? (the index itself can stay filesystem only)
Similar to Bichon, it also has a commercial license[1]:
> EmailEngine is not free open-source software. It is "source available" software, meaning you can view and copy the source code, but you need a paid subscription[2] to run it beyond the free 14-day trial. Each EmailEngine instance comes with this trial, so you can test EmailEngine without any commitment.
EmailEngine is based on ImapFlow[3], a modern and easy-to-use IMAP client library for Node.js that is MIT-licensed.
[1] https://github.com/postalsys/emailengine/blob/master/LICENSE...
Especially these days, you could vibe-code something an order of magnitude better within a day or two and not be locked into a single author's rat's nest of code.
"Bitcoin: A leightweight, high-performance... Rust email" - then I re-read because I was irritated because of the first Bitcoin token and then adding email :-D LOL
Onavo•3w ago
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sea-gold•3w ago
It must not be using any RustMailer code.
copirate•3w ago
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sea-gold•3w ago
> RustMailer is source-available. The code is open on GitHub, but requires a valid commercial license key for production use.
License Purchase: https://rustmailer.com/pricing
The mention of BSD/Apache is from here[1] and looks to be a listing of open-source licenses that this project uses.
[1] https://github.com/rustmailer/rustmailer/blob/main/license.h...
rustmailer•3w ago
First, rustmailer is my GitHub username. Under this GitHub account there are two main projects: RustMailer and Bichon.
RustMailer is a middleware product with the same name. It is commercially licensed. I hope it can help developers save time on email-related development and also generate a bit of income for me, so this middleware requires a license key to run long-term.
Bichon, on the other hand, is an independent project built on the experience of developing RustMailer. It does reuse a lot of similar code, but it is licensed under the AGPL. These are two completely different projects. RustMailer provides many API interfaces similar to EmailEngine and is positioned as middleware, while Bichon is an email archiving (or unified search) project.
Bichon is positioned as a permanently free project. Users never need to worry that if you use Bichon today you will be asked to pay later — you can use it with confidence, and all of its code is fully open and transparent.