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-# 🐶 Bichon +

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+ Bichon +
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-**Minimal, High-Performance Email Archiving & Management System in Rust** +

+ A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI +

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- - - -Bichon is a **minimal, high-performance, standalone Rust email archiver** with a built-in WebUI. -It runs as a **single binary**, requires **no external dependencies**, and provides fast, efficient email archiving, management, and search. - ---- +Bichon is a minimal, high-performance, standalone Rust email archiver with a built-in WebUI. +Its name is inspired by the puppy my daughter adopted last month. +It runs as a single binary, requires no external dependencies, and provides fast, efficient email archiving, management, and search. ## šŸš€ Features @@ -69,11 +71,24 @@ It runs as a **single binary**, requires **no external dependencies**, and provi - Provides **OpenAPI documentation**. - **Access token authentication** for programmatic access. ---- +## 🐾 Why Create Bichon? +A few months ago, I released **rustmailer**, an email API middleware: +https://github.com/rustmailer/rustmailer -Bichon is designed for **speed**, **simplicity**, and **efficiency**, letting you manage and archive emails effortlessly. +Since then, I’ve received many emails asking whether it could also archive emails, perform unified search, and support full-text indexing—not just querying recipients. +But rustmailer was designed as a middleware focused on providing API services. +Adding archiving and full-text search would complicate its core purpose and go far beyond its original scope. +Meanwhile, I realized that email archiving itself only requires a small portion of rustmailer’s functionality, plus a search engine. +With that combination, building a dedicated, efficient archiver becomes much simpler. + +Using the experience gained from rustmailer, I designed and built **Bichon** in less than two weeks, followed by another two weeks of testing and optimization. +It has now reached a stable, usable state—and I decided to release it publicly. + +**Bichon is completely free**. +You can download and use it however you like. +It’s not perfect, but I hope it brings you value. ## šŸš€ Quick Start @@ -152,4 +167,4 @@ This project is licensed under [AGPLv3](LICENSE).
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