Clean out years of email in an afternoon.
mail-sieve groups every message by sender, then lets you archive, trash or unsubscribe from thousands at once. It runs on your own machine, so your mail never passes through anyone else's server.
Built for the inbox with thousands unread.
Email clients make you work one message at a time. mail-sieve works one sender at a time, which is how the clutter arrived in the first place.
See who's filling your inbox
Every sender, domain and mailing list, ranked by message count, unread count and storage. Most people find a handful of senders account for a third of everything.
from:- Address, *@domain or a name
older_than:- Age, e.g. 30d, 6m, 1y
larger:- Size, e.g. 5mb
is:unread- Read state
has:list- Any mailing list
Search the way you think about mail
Combine sender, age, size, read state and mailing-list filters. The match count updates as you type, so you know exactly what an action will touch before you take it.
Full search syntaxRules that keep it clean
Save any search as a rule and pick an action. Rules run after every sync or on a timer, and they can never delete permanently.
How rules workhas:list older_than:30dOne-click unsubscribe
Uses the List-Unsubscribe header (RFC 8058 one-click or mailto), so you never open the email or click a tracked link.
Undo from Activity
Archive, trash and move jobs land in the activity log and can be reversed against the server.
Multiple accounts
Connect personal and work mailboxes and clean them from one place.
Storage view
Sort senders by megabytes to find the ones eating your quota.
Fast local index
Headers live in SQLite, so counts, searches and sender groups answer in milliseconds.
Gmail aware
Indexes All Mail with its labels, so every message is counted once and archive does what Gmail means by it.
Your mail stays on your hardware.
One container, one data volume. mail-sieve indexes message headers locally and fetches a body only when you open a preview. Nothing phones home.
- One container or one binary, on Linux, macOS or Windows
- Credentials encrypted at rest with a key that stays in your data folder
- Plain IMAP, so nothing is locked in
services:
mail-sieve:
image: ghcr.io/pmqueiroz/mail-sieve:latest
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
volumes:
- mail-sieve-data:/data
volumes:
mail-sieve-data:Free forever. Kept alive by the people who use it.
mail-sieve has no paid tier and no investors. Donations pay for maintenance time and provider test accounts.
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