Automatically deletes old emails that match the specified label.
- Create a new Google Apps Script at https://script.google.com
- Overwrite the placeholder with the javascript below
- Update the following constants:
LABEL_TO_DELETE
: the label that should be have old messages deletedDELETE_AFTER_DAYS
: the age of messsages after which they will be moved to trash
- Save the script, then run:
Initialize
Install
If you ever want to remove the script, run Uninstall
to remove any left over triggers.
- Added support for multiple labels
- Added configurable
TRIGGER_NAME
- Increased default page size
- Decreased default delay between receipt and delete
- Removed use of deprecated
Session.getTimeZone()
- Improved efficiency for long threads by checking
thread.getLastMessageDate()
H/T: Arun's post How to Auto Delete Old Emails In Any Gmail Label
Thanks for all the updates, this is super useful since my old copy stopped running a while back.
I did add one tweak to the deletion logic which people may find useful:
This allows you to prevent emails from being auto deleted by starring them when you review them.
Am also playing with having a slightly more flexible config that would allow that logic (and other criteria, such as only auto delete emails that have been read) to be configurable per-label, but I don't have that working yet: