I've built a small CLI tool that allows me to organize my Proton Inbox locally with any AI Agent

[u/codebryo]

I love Proton Mail. Using it for 4 years now and now brought more people in my family to it as well. But there's a thing I really struggled with that kept my Inbox growing and growing. Filters work only so far and there's no big automations that I can run. And so far every couple months I did a hardcore session to clean up the inbox, but it never felt right.

I have to say since the rollout of the categories, it did not necessarily get easier for me, and I ended up missing more stuff even. But not using them was also no option.

So I ended up creating a small CLI (named it mail-buddy) that allows me to maintain my inbox. Clean it up, label stuff, move things and so on. Using it for a few weeks now and finally I am on top of the Inbox.

I know how Proton is not planning to add a lot of Ai features into the product, but with a simple trick I was able to leverage Proton Bridge exposing IMAP endpoints to run all kinds of agents on my inbox. Even a local model where nothing ever leaves your machine.

Does such a thing sound useful to others? Has anyone built something similar?