Bichon
Bichon is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Archiving category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Rust. It ships a Docker image. It has 2,049 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 2,049
- Forks
- 88
- Open issues
- 27
- Commits, last 12 months
- 590
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- 2.2.0Oct 20, 2026
- Created
- Nov 18, 2025
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 590 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 590 |
| Latest release | 2.2.0 (Oct 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 49 |
| Open issues | 27 |
| Open pull requests | 2 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Nov 18, 2025 |
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About Bichon
Email archiving server that syncs from IMAP accounts, indexes emails for full-text search, and provides a REST API. No external database required, includes WebUI with multi-account support.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/rustmailer/bichon.
Topics
- backup
- compression
- email-archiver
- email-archiving
- imap
- oauth2
- openapi
- rust
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Is Bichon free and open source?
Yes. Bichon is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Bichon with Docker?
Yes. Bichon provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Bichon?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Bichon include Paperless-ngx, ArchiveBox and Wallabag.
Is Bichon actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Bichon was on Oct 26, 2026 with 590 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 2.2.0, published Oct 20, 2026. It had 27 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.