Show HN: Unsubscan – Free and offline mailing list unsubscription tool

My semi-related suggestion: Even if you don't use it now, download Thunderbird (you can delete it after), add your Gmail account, then once it has synced, select all the messages you want (maybe even your entire inbox for good measure), then go to File -> Save As -> File. The folder you select here will be populated with your emails as EML files.

Once you have that folder, just use unsubscan to get all the links presented to you in a static HTML page broken down by sender domain.

It is an offline tool that scans a directory of archived emails and returns all the found unsubscribed links.

This seems reasonable.

If you are brave enough, you can loop through the optional JSON output with jq and then curl every link found.

However, I do not recommend doing this blindly without first making sure you won't be unsubscribing from something important to you.

Note that this curl loop may not work for all links as some are not "one click unsubscribe" links and may require additional steps.

I think it depends on how far gone the particular email account is. I ran this against my entire mail history roughly a week ago, unsubscribed from everything I didn't want, and my email inbox has been very quiet since.

In my case, I was not receiving much malicious spam, but there were a lot of mailing list emails from legitimate companies and accounts that I did not wish to receive anymore.

Definitely a good point to keep in mind for anyone who might want to use this tool to tackle malicious spam- I would recommend using dedicated spam blocking tools for that use case instead.

EML is an open format for an open protocol. You can export emails to this format from Thunderbird and other desktop mail clients regardless of the email provider used.

It works with any email service, they just provided instructions for those two.

I wonder why you got downvoted, it was an honest mistake and your comment was not aggressive in any way.