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Ask HN: Any good imap client for cleaning of gmail?

by torbica on 1/22/19, 11:43 AM with 2 comments

• by throwaway8879 on 1/22/19, 12:24 PM

  I dislike the gmail trash waiting for 30 days to empty, so I have cron-job running a small Go script that cleans up the trash using the Gmail API. Right now I use Gmail's filters to send stuff I don't like to the trash, but I plan to do the filtering in the script too, when I find the time.

  I'm still wondering why there isn't a "delete every email from this person automatically" built into either Gmail, or the underlying email spec, which I don't really know anything about.

• by vkaku on 1/22/19, 7:09 PM

  Actually, using labels will help you. Historically it took me about a day to get to a zero Inbox.