Email Assassin

High-performance, native inbox cleanup tool for managing and cleaning up email accounts.

Features

• Fast Scan: Multi-threaded email analysis using the "Rusty Manifold" engine.
• Bulk Delete: Surgical removal of unwanted senders.
• Privacy: Runs completely locally on your machine.
• Cross-Platform: Native support for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Email Assassin in action - High-performance inbox analysis and cleanup.

Installation

Download the latest release from GitHub Releases.

Or build from source:

cargo run --release

Setup: App Passwords

Email Assassin connects via IMAP, which requires an app password (not your regular login password) for most providers. Here's how to get one:

Gmail

1. Go to myaccount.google.com
2. Navigate to Security > 2-Step Verification (enable it if you haven't)
3. At the bottom, click App passwords
4. Select Mail and Windows Computer (or any device), then click Generate
5. Copy the 16-character password and paste it into Email Assassin

Outlook / Hotmail

1. Go to account.live.com
2. Navigate to Security > Advanced security options
3. Under App passwords, click Create a new app password
4. Copy the generated password and paste it into Email Assassin

Yahoo

1. Go to login.yahoo.com/account/security
2. Enable 2-Step Verification if you haven't
3. Click Generate app password
4. Select Other App, give it a name, and click Generate
5. Copy the password and paste it into Email Assassin

iCloud

1. Go to appleid.apple.com
2. Sign in and navigate to Sign-In and Security > App-Specific Passwords
3. Click Generate an app-specific password
4. Give it a label (e.g. "Email Assassin") and click Create
5. Copy the password and paste it into Email Assassin

Code Quality

This project follows Microsoft's Pragmatic Rust Guidelines for code style, error handling, structured logging, and static verification.

License

Copyright (C) 2026 Asa V. Schaeffer

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

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P.S. this project was 100% generated by Google Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5. art by ChatGPT 5.1 via Microsoft Copilot.

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