DownloadThis utility helps you generate and maintain Gmail filters in a declarative way. It has a Jsonnet configuration file that aims to be simpler to write and maintain than using the Gmail web interface, to categorize, label, archive and manage your inbox automatically. If you use Gmail and have to maintain (like me) a lot of filters (to apply labels, get rid of spam or categorize your emails), then you probably have (like me) a very long list of messy filters. At a certain point one of your messages got mislabled and you try to understand why. You scroll through that horrible mess of filters, you wish you could find and replace stuff, test the changes on your filters before applying them, refactor some filters together... in a way treat them like you treat your code. Gmail allows one to import and export filters in XML format. This can be used to maintain them in a better way.
Features
- An easy to understand, declarative, composable language
- A builtin query simplifier, to keep the size of your filters down (Gmail has a limit of 1500 chars per filter)
- Ability to review your changes before applying them
- Automatic update of the settings (no manual import) in seconds
- gmailctl is written in Go and requires at least Go version 1.17
- The easiest way to use gmailctl is to run gmailctl edit
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