Is there a tool that takes an export of your email inbox, processes it locally, and outputs a neat list of every mailing list & online account you’ve gotten mail from?
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I’ve found one of the most time-consuming parts of this journey is the ‘damage control’; working though every last account & scrubbing it clean of PII. It’s agonizingly tedious.
Before we even begin to actually clean all these accounts, they first have to be compiled & listed. I’ve used a PW manager for the last decade, so that was a nice headstart. But as I spend weeks gradually combing through my inbox, tens of thousands of emails in total, I’m finding a tremendous number of accounts I wouldn’t have otherwise remembered. In this regard, email is my most reliable papertrail - every random retailer Ive ever bought a cigarette from has apparently emailed a confirmation code & receipt
As I lament the blood, sweat, and tears that couldve been saved by taking privacy seriously a little sooner, I find myself wondering if this laborious process can be automated.
Surely it wouldn’t be too difficult to locally parse through an mbox export, and spit out a list of sender domains, linked to the relevant email. In fact, it seems so straightforward, I have a hard time believing it doesn’t already exist. Yet, I haven’t been able to find anything
So, have any of the good folks at PG stumbled across such a tool? Or am I the only one who would find value in something like that?
