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brew install msgvault

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overview

Package summary

Archive a lifetime of email and chat with offline search and analytics

Project links

Homepage

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msgvault

history

Project history and usage

msgvault is a local-first archive, search, analytics, and AI-query tool for personal message history, created by Wes McKinney and published by Kenn Software LLC. McKinney's February 2026 announcement describes building it after years of using Gmail and wanting local control over decades of email, attachments, and messages. The announcement says the project began as a hybrid Python/Rust effort and moved to a single-language Go project that ships as a static binary.

How it is used

The architecture centers on downloading messages into a local archive, then querying them without live mailbox access. The docs describe Gmail, IMAP, Microsoft 365, PST, MBOX, Apple Mail, WhatsApp, iMessage, Google Voice, Facebook Messenger, and SMS Backup & Restore imports; SQLite is the default system of record, DuckDB and Parquet power analytics, SQLite FTS5 powers keyword search, and optional vector search can use a configured local or self-hosted embedding endpoint. The CLI exposes sync, import, search, TUI, MCP server, HTTP server, analytics, and deletion workflows. Its package-manager niche is newer than traditional mail tools: it is not an email client, but a local archive substrate for search, personal analytics, and LLM/MCP access over a private message corpus.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for msgvault. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.msgvault/config.toml
Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.msgvault\config.toml

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.msgvault/tokens/
Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.msgvault\tokens\

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`msgvault`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.18.0

manager updated2026-07-29

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:msgvault
Version	0.18.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/kenn-io/msgvault
Repository	https://github.com/kenn-io/msgvault
Last updated	2026-07-29T17:05:01+02:00
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

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source trail

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Combined YAML source

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combined/msgvault.yml

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