Gmail Cleaner command line

Simple app to mass deletion or trashing email writen in Go language

Requirement

• Go
• Credentials for using GmailApi. Follow beginning of this guide

Install

Manually

You need Dep to install dependencies

git clone https://github.com/SkYNewZ/gmail-cleaner.git
cd gmail-cleaner
dep ensure

You can now run it by doing go run main.go or build go build -o gmail-cleaner and execute ./gmail-cleaner

Automatically

go get -u github.com/SkYNewZ/gmail-cleaner

Usage

$ gmail-cleaner --help
Usage:
  main [OPTIONS]

Application Options:
  -s, --search=           Search criteria
  -d, --delete            Delete messages ?
      --credentials-file= Credentials file path as json for using GmailAPI (default: credentials.json)

Help Options:
  -h, --help              Show this help message

You can use multiple --search For example, if your credentials.json is located into your $HOME, run gmail-cleaner --credentials-file ~/credentials.json ...

Example

# Trash all messages from "github.com"
gmail-cleaner --search "from:(github.com)" --credentials-file ~/credentials.json

# Delete **permanently** messages with subject "[GitHub] A third-party OAuth application has been added to your account"
gmail-cleaner --search "subject:([GitHub] A third-party OAuth application has been added to your account)" --delete --credentials-file ~/Downloads/credentials.json

# Delete **permanently** messages with subject "[GitHub] A third-party OAuth application has been added to your account" and messages from "github.com"
gmail-cleaner --search "from:(github.com)" --search "subject:([GitHub] A third-party OAuth application has been added to your account)" --credentials-file ~/credentials.json --delete

For more details about the Gmail search engine, checkout docs