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EmailHandler is a desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) that helps you organize and clean up your mailbox. It runs on your computer. There is no EmailHandler server: the developer never receives your emails, your account tokens or your API key.
Who we are
I'm an independent developer. I build apps for my own needs and for everyday life, and I make them for everyone. Questions? Contact me.
What the app accesses
When you sign in, your email provider asks you to allow these permissions. The app reads your email address only to show which account is connected.
- Gmail:
gmail.modify, to read emails and labels, add or remove labels, move emails to Trash and send unsubscribe emails. The permission to delete emails permanently (https://mail.google.com/) is asked for separately, only if you choose “Empty Trash”. - Outlook, Hotmail, Live, Microsoft 365:
Mail.ReadWrite,Mail.Send,MailboxSettings.ReadWrite(to create colored categories),User.Read, plusopenid,emailandoffline_accessto stay signed in.
How it is used
Only to provide the features you see: tagging emails, finding subscriptions, suggesting what is safe to delete and carrying out the actions you approve. EmailHandler never changes your mailbox without a click from you.
To decide what an email is, the app sends some of its content to Jev, a decision model run by TypeSafe (typesafe.ai): the sender, subject, date, folder, mailing-list information, and either the short preview or up to 3,000 characters of the text body. To judge a sender as a whole it sends the subjects and short previews (up to 200 characters each) of up to 8 recent emails. These requests go directly from your computer to TypeSafe, using your own TypeSafe API key. TypeSafe's handling of that data is covered by its own terms and privacy policy.
When you unsubscribe, the app either sends the sender's official one-click unsubscribe request from your computer to the address the sender published, or sends an unsubscribe email from your account to the address the sender published, depending on what the sender supports.
What is stored, and where
- On your computer only. Scan results (sender, subject, preview, labels and Jev's answers) are kept in the app's local database so later scans are fast. Email bodies are not stored.
- Your sign-in tokens and your TypeSafe API key are encrypted with your operating system's secure storage (macOS Keychain, Windows DPAPI, or the Linux secret service).
- The app has no analytics, no tracking and no telemetry. The developer has no server and receives no data from the app.
Google API Services User Data Policy
EmailHandler's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
For every provider: mailbox data is not used for advertising, is not sold, and is not used by the developer to train AI or machine-learning models. It is shared only with TypeSafe, as described above, to provide the app's features.
Your choices
- Remove an account in the app at any time: its local results are deleted and its access token is revoked.
- You can also revoke access from your provider: Google, Microsoft (personal accounts) or Microsoft (work or school).
- Uninstalling the app and deleting its data folder removes everything it stored.
Children
EmailHandler is not intended for children under 16.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the date above is updated. For questions or requests, contact me.