Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system

Msgvault: fast private email archive and search system(wesmckinney.com)

52 points by j4mie 150 days ago | 8 comments

aanet 150 days ago |

OK, this is a project I can stand behind: download YOUR OWN data locally, query it in n different ways quickly, delete / sync up with Gmail, all from your TUI.

Would love to see something similar for Google Photos, and Apple Photos.

igor47 150 days ago | |

For Google photos immich works pretty well for me.

jpeeler 146 days ago | | |

I keep meaning to switch to either immich or ente, but can't decide.

pstoll 150 days ago | |

Ditto - completely appeals to me. I’m good starting with mail.

vindin 149 days ago |

Neat idea but you could build this with a fraction of the complexity by ditching sqlite and duckdb for your native file system and rg/grep/gawk with equivalent performance

avtar 149 days ago | |

There’s also notmuch with various frontends which will let you index and search colossal mail accounts

https://notmuchmail.org/frontends/

em-bee 147 days ago | |

grep with equivalent performance? i highly doubt that. my mailbox has 2.6M emails: running grep through millions of files if you use maildir or a similar format takes forever. likewise running grep on a 7.6GB large mbox file takes more than a minute.

on the other hand in supmua (which inspired notmuch) the same search takes seconds.

SwamyM 150 days ago |

Would love to see support for Google Voice messages in the future.