I got frustrated with the amount of daily spam in my Gmail "Promotions" tab -- especially since it made searching for email basically impossible. While there are services that will help me unsubscribe from all the mailing lists I'm signed up to, they wanted unfettered access to my Google account, which I wasn't going to give.
I wrote a open source tool called hatchet which will access your Gmail account using IMAP, find the latest unsubscribe link for each unique email sender, and write it all to a csv/spreadsheet file.
Is there any reason hatchet is described as a tool for Gmail, when it lets the user specify any IMAP server? Are other email service providers officially supported by hatchet?
its currently targeted towards Gmail users because it specifically looks for the "All Mail" inbox which Gmail provides. I'm working on allowing users to configure the inbox name, which means it should work with any email provider.
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Hey HN,
I got frustrated with the amount of daily spam in my Gmail "Promotions" tab -- especially since it made searching for email basically impossible. While there are services that will help me unsubscribe from all the mailing lists I'm signed up to, they wanted unfettered access to my Google account, which I wasn't going to give.
I wrote a open source tool called hatchet which will access your Gmail account using IMAP, find the latest unsubscribe link for each unique email sender, and write it all to a csv/spreadsheet file.
Thank you for creating this excellent tool!
Is there any reason hatchet is described as a tool for Gmail, when it lets the user specify any IMAP server? Are other email service providers officially supported by hatchet?
its currently targeted towards Gmail users because it specifically looks for the "All Mail" inbox which Gmail provides. I'm working on allowing users to configure the inbox name, which means it should work with any email provider.
That would be a great feature, I'm looking forward to this. Thanks again for developing Hatchet.
That would be a great addition! Why this was only for gmail was my first question.
No offense but you care about a clean inbox and you have the Promotions tab activated!?!?!? That's crazy to me.
My gmail is just my last name, only six letters long, and I get maybe one or two spam emails a month, if that.
The promotions tab is just a filtering mechanism, it doesn't mean that you'll get more spammy promotional email?
Clean as in clean design, not clean as in spam free.