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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

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.

jldl805 5y ago
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.
- analogj 5y ago
  The promotions tab is just a filtering mechanism, it doesn't mean that you'll get more spammy promotional email?
  - jldl805 5y ago
    Clean as in clean design, not clean as in spam free.
commoner 5y ago
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?
- analogj 5y ago
  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.
  - commoner 5y ago
    That would be a great feature, I'm looking forward to this. Thanks again for developing Hatchet.
  - louis-lau 5y ago
    That would be a great addition! Why this was only for gmail was my first question.