Mail Filter

A personal tool that sorts one student's inbox into a daily digest.

What it does

Mail Filter reads recent messages from a single Gmail account and groups them into a short daily digest so that academic mail is not buried under promotions. Every message is placed into one of four groups:

• Classes — midsems, compres, exit tests, quizzes, assignments, cancelled or rescheduled lectures
• Fests — hackathons, events, competitions, workshops
• Other — replies, portal and registration notices, hostel notices, policy changes
• Ignore — promotions, newsletters and spam, which are left out of the digest

How it works

It is a command-line script that runs on one personal computer, once a day. It requests read-only access to Gmail (gmail.readonly) and never sends, deletes, labels or modifies any message. Sorting is done by a language model that runs locally on the same computer, so the text of an email is never sent to any external service.

Who it is for

It is not a commercial product and is not offered to the public. It was written for, and is used by, a single person on their own mailbox.