Hey dev community! 👋
As developers, our inboxes often turn into a graveyard of job alerts (LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter) and tech newsletters we subscribe to with the intention of "reading later" but never actually open. The result? Important emails get lost, and we get the dreaded "Account storage is almost full" notification.
Recently, I hit that wall. I had thousands of accumulated emails. While Gmail allows you to create filters for incoming mail, it doesn't have a native feature to say: "Delete this email automatically after 7 days".
So, I decided to solve it the way we solve everything: by writing some code.
Since the Google Workspace ecosystem runs on a JavaScript-based environment, I put together a custom script. Fun fact: a simple loop originally failed due to Google's strict 6-minute execution limit. To fix this, I optimized the code to process emails in batches of 100, preventing the server from timing out.
