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Bichon

Self-hosted email archiving server with full-text search

Alternative to: mimecast, proofpoint archive


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0.3.0

2026-01-05

Release Notes

This release focuses on **email import tooling, along with important bug fixes.

✨ Highlights

  • Introduced bichonctl interactive CLI for guided email imports from EML, MBOX, and Thunderbird sources.

  • Added rich import capabilities:

    • Recursive EML directory scanning with folder structure preservation
    • Streaming import for single MBOX files
    • Thunderbird profile import with automatic .sbd hierarchy detection
  • Improved import performance via batch processing (Base64 encoding and batched API requests).

  • Added mailbox cleanup support (#96).

  • Enhanced UI with a clickable logo that redirects to the homepage (#95).

  • Packaged bichonctl together with Bichon binaries for simplified distribution.

see https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon/wiki/Using-Bichonctl-For-Email-Import

🐛 Fixes

  • Skipped default admin role validation when global_roles is None (#93).
  • Fixed reported issue #94.
  • Resolved an issue where folder limit could not be empty (#97).

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rustmailer/bichon/compare/0.2.2…0.3.0