Open Archiver
Email archiving solution with full-text search and eDiscovery search features.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 16% of tracked projects; popularity more than 53%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 2.4k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v0.6.0 · 24 Aug 2026 |
| Repo updated | 17 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker |
Is Open Archiver actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 36 commits, of which 21 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 7 commits a month.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 163% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v0.6.0, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Open Archiver ranks #12 of 19 tracked archiving and digital preservation (dp) projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Open Archiver actually does
Open Archiver is a dedicated email archiving solution equipped with full-text search and eDiscovery capabilities. It enables organisations to systematically store, index, and retrieve historical email data for compliance and investigative needs. Distributed under the AGPL-3.0 licence, the project is packaged as a containerised application.
Best fit: It is well-suited for system administrators looking to implement a self-hosted email archiving pipeline with search tools for legal or administrative review.
Worth knowing: The software carries a moderate maintenance profile and uses the AGPL-3.0 licence, which places copyleft requirements on network-deployed modifications.
Deployment notes
Because it runs via Docker, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for data storage and place the container behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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