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E-mail archive browser for gmail takeout files (.mbox) (piefed.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by gedfromgont@piefed.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have started moving away from gmail and have started exporting my older e-mails via the takeout option. This generates .mbox files. I don't really use any e-mail clients on my computer and do most of my e-mailing on my phone, so I don't have a way of viewing/searching those files.

Therefore I was wondering if there is any selfhosted option for some kind of e-mail archive/viewer with decent search function that anyone can recommend? Specifically something capable of handling those .mbox files. I found a few projects that sounded promising, but they seemed either dead, weren't setup for selfhosting or could only connect directly to the mailboxes. So I thought I'd ask here if anyone has experience with this, maybe some recommendations?

Also open to alternative approaches what to do with those files. I just would like to delete these mails from gmail entirely, but that requires I can search them with as much ease as I can on gmail with a local option.

Thanks!

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[–] nixx@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I use this to archive multiple email accounts

https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Well this is it! Thanks, didn't find that in my initial search.

[–] rhelawyn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This looks amazing

Also supports importing .mbox apparently

[–] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

This looks promising. Saving for later! Thank you

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I also use Bichon and its great.