I always assumed Gmail bloat came from large attachments.
Turns out 3 senders were responsible for 30% of my inbox —
thousands of tiny emails I’d never thought to clean up. I built mailtrim to surface this pattern:

• ranks senders by actual storage impact (not just count)
• confidence scoring on what’s safe to bulk-delete
• 30-day undo on everything — nothing is permanent by default
• runs entirely locally, no email data leaves your machine

Free, open source (MIT). No subscription, no backend.

One friction point upfront: Gmail API setup is one-time, ~15 min.
After that it’s just mailtrim stats and mailtrim purge.

Keen to hear feedback on the confidence/safety model especially —
that’s the part I’m least sure I’ve got right.

https://github.com/sadhgurutech/mailtrim

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