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by DigitallyBorn 80 days ago
I would love it if it could run against archived messages (`in:anywhere -in:trash -in:spam`) ... I've been archiving all email for a very long time and being able to run stats and purge it would do wonders.
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chevuru 79 days ago
Now shipped: --scope anywhere is now live — scans all mail (inbox, archived, sent), not just inbox. Works with stats, purge, and sync. Thanks for the push
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chevuru 80 days ago
This is a great call. you're right that a lot of the "hidden bloat" sits in archived mail, not the inbox.

Right now mailtrim only looks at inbox by default, but adding support for something like:

  in:anywhere -in:trash -in:spam
is very doable.

Would you expect this as: 1) a flag (e.g. --all-mail) 2) or the default behavior?

Happy to prioritize this if it's useful. Feels like it would surface way more interesting results.

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