Show HN: Mailbox Viewer – publish FOIA email dumps as a static Gmail-like site

Category: devtools

Tags: email, foia, static-site, duckdb, wasm, parquet, search

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Mailbox Viewer converts mbox/PST email archives into a static, Gmail-like website powered by DuckDB-WASM and Parquet files, with full-text search, attachment search, and in-browser semantic search. It's interesting because it targets FOIA/public-records dumps—making obscure email exports browsable, searchable, and shareable with zero server infrastructure.

Target audience: journalists, researchers, transparency/FOIA advocates, backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/rahimnathwani/mailbox-viewer · TypeScript · MIT · 1 stars

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