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looks simple, but useful tool

finally some realization

Assuming you work from home, if not doing already, separate your workspace from living area. Do not sit with your laptop on the couch. Just listening to your own breathing pattern itself is one simple technique to reduce stress and relax. Then, you can definitely follow all the other suggestions in this thread.

Live on Pypi

https://pypi.org/project/mailtrim/

Now shipped: --scope anywhere is now live — scans all mail (inbox, archived, sent), not just inbox. Works with stats, purge, and sync. Thanks for the push

The share text and README have been updated to accurately say "Core cleanup runs locally — AI commands send only subjects/snippets to Anthropic." The terminal sample outputs were illustrative; I'm recording a real asciinema session to replace them. PR #8 landed the README fix

Thanks! The Gmail API setup is the only friction. Once Mailtrim auth completes, it's just two commands. Let me know if you hit anything.

Totally fair. This is probably the biggest limitation right now.

I started with the Gmail API because: - better performance vs IMAP for large mailboxes - easier access to size metadata per message

That said, IMAP support is something I definitely want to add. Especially for iCloud/Outlook users.

If I did add IMAP, would you be okay with: - slower scans - slightly less accurate size estimates

Or is parity with Gmail important?

This is a great call. you're right that a lot of the "hidden bloat" sits in archived mail, not the inbox.

Right now mailtrim only looks at inbox by default, but adding support for something like:

  in:anywhere -in:trash -in:spam

is very doable.

Would you expect this as: 1) a flag (e.g. --all-mail) 2) or the default behavior?

Happy to prioritize this if it's useful. Feels like it would surface way more interesting results.

Curious if others have noticed the same pattern — a few senders making up most of the inbox.

Happy to help with setup if anyone tries it — GCP step is the only slightly annoying part right now.