msgvault / website

# msgvault

> msgvault is open source and runs on your hardware. Save email, chats, meetings,
> calendars, and contacts on your own computer or server. Search across accounts,
> look up a person's history, and work from a browser, terminal, or AI assistant.

Every public page has a Markdown companion for machine reading. Use the links
below, or replace a page's trailing slash with `.md`: `/docs/setup/` becomes
`/docs/setup.md`. The documentation index is `/docs/index.md`.

## Product

- [Product overview](https://msgvault.io/index.md): supported sources, contact
  profiles, search, interfaces, and how deletion works
- [How msgvault works](https://msgvault.io/guide.md): sync and import messages,
  manage contacts, search, review deletions, and back up your archive

## Start Here

- [Documentation](https://msgvault.io/docs/index.md): all operating documentation
- [Setup](https://msgvault.io/docs/setup.md): installation and first sync
- [Choose a Source](https://msgvault.io/docs/guides/sources.md): sync and import routes by provider and format

## Explore Your Archive

- [Web UI](https://msgvault.io/docs/web-ui.md): the browser application
- [Terminal UI](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/tui.md)
- [Searching](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/searching.md): query syntax and modes
- [Semantic and Visual Search](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/vector-search.md): semantic and hybrid setup
- [Document Attachment Indexing](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/document-indexing.md): Docbank-backed extraction
- [Recommended Configuration](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/recommended-configuration.md)
- [Analytics and Stats](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/analytics.md)
- [SQL Queries](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/querying.md)
- [Exporting](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/exporting.md)

## Sync and Import

- [OAuth Setup](https://msgvault.io/docs/guides/oauth-setup.md)
- [IMAP Mail](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/imap.md): sync folders and prepare, edit, recover, or delete managed reply drafts
- [Local Email](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/importing.md)
- [Remote Email Images](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/remote-images.md): opt-in downloads and offline display
- [Text Messages](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/text-messages.md)
- [Google Calendar](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/calendar.md)
- [Microsoft Teams](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/teams.md)
- [Discord](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/discord.md)
- [Beeper](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/beeper.md)
- [Matrix](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/matrix.md)
- [Slack](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/slack.md)
- [Meeting Notes and Transcripts](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/meetings.md)

## People and Accounts

- [People and Profiles](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/people.md): the people layer
- [Conversation Briefs](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/people-briefs.md): saved summaries, citations, and input limits
- [Profile Automation](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/people-automation.md): tracking, fact resolution, and provider consent
- [External Enrichment](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/people-enrichment.md): provider policies and suppression
- [CardDAV Contacts](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/people-carddav.md): address-book import, publication, and conflicts
- [Accounts and Collections](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/multi-account.md)

## Maintain and Operate

- [Backup and Restore](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/backup.md): snapshot repositories
- [Verify Integrity](https://msgvault.io/docs/guides/verification.md)
- [Deduplication](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/deduplication.md)
- [Deleting Email](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/deletion.md): staging and gated execution
- [Remote Deployment](https://msgvault.io/docs/guides/remote-deployment.md)
- [Daemon Lifecycle](https://msgvault.io/docs/guides/daemon-migration.md)
- [Troubleshooting](https://msgvault.io/docs/troubleshooting.md)

## Reference and Integrations

- [CLI Reference](https://msgvault.io/docs/cli-reference.md): every command and flag
- [Configuration](https://msgvault.io/docs/configuration.md): config.toml reference
- [HTTP API](https://msgvault.io/docs/api-server.md)
- [MCP Server](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/chat.md): AI assistant integration
- [Kata Issues](https://msgvault.io/docs/usage/kata-issues.md): file issues that quote archived messages and files
- [Agent Skills](https://msgvault.io/docs/guides/agent-skills.md)
- [FAQ](https://msgvault.io/docs/faq.md)
- [Changelog](https://msgvault.io/docs/changelog.md): released and unreleased changes, with upgrade notes

## Architecture

- [Overview](https://msgvault.io/docs/architecture/overview.md): design decisions
- [Data Storage](https://msgvault.io/docs/architecture/storage.md)
- [PostgreSQL Backend](https://msgvault.io/docs/architecture/postgresql.md)
- [Search Ranking](https://msgvault.io/docs/architecture/search-ranking.md)
- [Backup Repository Format](https://msgvault.io/docs/architecture/backup-format.md)

## Project

- [Development](https://msgvault.io/docs/development.md)
- [Why msgvault?](https://msgvault.io/docs/introduction.md)

## Optional

- [Controlled web UI fixture](https://msgvault.io/docs/fixtures/README.template.md)
- [Documentation fixture format](https://msgvault.io/docs/fixtures/fixture-format.md)

## Other

- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/kenn-io/msgvault): source, issues, releases

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