Introduction
My inbox is FULL. Not in the sense of storage capacity but my mental capacity. Email is here to stay and i have chose not to commit to a zero inbox game. So this is my attempt to using some code to analyze and clean up existing messages. Let's get some control back.
Code
TLDR; the who_has_email_the_most script loops through 11 times by 30 days in an inbox using an IMAP protocol. Builds a "top FROM" emails then displays it. The mark_for_deletions script handles removing a single from email address at a time.
Data
Mostly newsletters, some transactional. Having a time-to-live on some of these emails would make sense. That's not a feature i'm aware of so lets just do some data deletion. EDIT: there is a feature called Sweep in Outlook.com that does this.
[('news@e.eyebuydirect.com', 290),
('shipment-tracking@amazon.com', 218),
('friendupdates@facebookmail.com', 215),
('express@em.express.com', 211),
('Costco@digital.costco.com', 207),
('photos@onedrive.com', 195),
('noreply@redditmail.com', 179),
('order-update@amazon.com', 178),
('Shutterfly@em.shutterfly.com', 159),
('REDACTED01@REDACTED01.com', 157),
('ProFlowers@news.proflowers.com', 151),
('USPSInformeddelivery@email.informeddelivery.usps.com', 149),
('marketplace-messages@amazon.com', 122),
('microsoft.start@email2.microsoft.com', 114),
('redcross@theamericanredcross.org', 112),
('REDACTED02@REDACTED02', 106),
('newsmax@latest.newsmax.com', 101),
('noreply@email.amctheatres.com', 95),
('jobs-listings@linkedin.com', 95),
('reply@rs.email.nextdoor.com', 93)]
Solutions
- Unsubscribe from the top offenders
- Using a script, delete the top offending emails.
- Created some rules to archive emails via the web portal.
- Run the script top offenders monthly to evaluate who is wasting my time the most
Conclusion
A bit of house cleaning will keep some sanity in my inbox. With the addition of automation, it should get better over time.