gmail-helper
Productivity
email management
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3 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Performance: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful and sweet to see built
From 3 comments
This looks useful! For "Declarative configuration for Gmail filters", see also https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl
adamfeldman on HNThis is sweet. If you're interested, I'd be happy to help out with your todo to integrate with a local database. Getting the rate-limiting and retries right can be a little…
matlin on HNI will be going to work tomorrow and baking this into our email test suite.
jimbob45 on HN
Objections
Bulk deletion in the Gmail web UI is unreliable for very large mailboxes
From 3 comments
Having gone through this recently you'll see a spinner/progress indicator. Then a short time later it'll terminate and half your messages will still be present. I took several…
stevekemp on HNI've had the same issue spanning years. I didn't bother going further than the web UI. I would delete 100k+ messages, it would hang, and when it returned it would only have…
pfranz on HNI know this is an odd question but... Have you tried deleting a very large number of messages? I am talking about > 100,000. I once needed to clean up > million messages and it…
notyourday on HN
Requests
Find and delete messages by attachment size
From 2 comments
Related: would this tool let me analyze my gmail for cleanup? That is, identify which senders/domains send me the most email by number or size. Some way to automatically download…
harikb on HNHow might I use this to delete emails with big attachments? Can I filter and delete by message size? I'm cheap. :-)
ronyeh on HN
Automatic label creation based on sender and open behaviour
From 1 comment
This is nice. A couple of days back I was thinking of a utility where labels are created automatically. It uses meta information like: ``` * How many emails I get from a sender *…
aryamaan on HN
Questions
Can it handle deleting very large numbers of messages?
From 1 comment
I know this is an odd question but... Have you tried deleting a very large number of messages? I am talking about > 100,000. I once needed to clean up > million messages and it…
notyourday on HN
Is there a way to add a single filter without recreating all of them?
From 1 comment
I did something similar - in fact looking at the add filter, very similar, where I add a label to certain mails by query and then delete - but the weirdest part was i could not…
lifeisstillgood on HN
Alternatives named
gmailctl for declarative Gmail filter configuration
From 1 comment
This looks useful! For "Declarative configuration for Gmail filters", see also https://github.com/mbrt/gmailctl
adamfeldman on HN
Gmail search has:attachment larger:5M
From 1 comment
I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for, but I run this search once every few months: [has:attachment larger:5M] That finds everything bigger than 5 megabytes. You…
jedberg on HN
labeller procmail-style Gmail rules
From 1 comment
See also my little hack, a sort of procmail for gmail, with a small scripting language: https://github.com/skx/labeller/ Adding/Removing labels based upon arbitrary…
stevekemp on HN
notmuch and mbsync for email cleanup
From 1 comment
Related: I recently used mbsync and notmuch to clean-up my Outlook/Live/Office email account. A one-liner to get email count per domain: ``` notmuch address '*' | sed "s/^.*@//"…
tleb_ on HN