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So glad you mentioned Docspell! Just started getting into self-hosting and was looking into paperless-ngx though Docspell looks more geared toward what I want.

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daco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m happy it helped.
I tried many systems (paperless and it’s derívales also) and I found docspell is a lot easier to use and has all the features I need.

I can archive emails by moving them to a category and docspell converts it to pdf and saves it to the database.

I can choose a file system storage or a database storage. I chose database storage (Postgres, which is also the default) because is a lot easier to backup)

I love the way I can categorize the files by adding recipient and sender. That way I can filter all the files related to a specific person.

I can export all the files in a filter to a zip file.

I can batch edit.

That as a summary :)

My only recommendations are

to deploy it using a tag in docker and not using automatically the latest version. That way you are in control of the updates.

And always do database backups :) (using a tag in docker means you can always redeploy a specific version.
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