About this Add-on
Email Expiration Manager helps you automatically manage emails with expiration dates according to the sender's preferences. Features
- Automatic detection of emails with "Expires" header
- Delete or move expired emails automatically
- Dry run mode for safe testing
- Check on startup or periodically
- Multi-account and multi-folder support
- Desktop notifications
- Activity logs with detailed statistics
- Multilingual (English, French, German & Spanish)
Environmental Impact This extension is part of the Zero Carbon Email initiative to reduce the environmental impact of email storage. By automatically removing expired emails, we help reduce:
- Energy consumption from data center storage
- Carbon emissions from server operations
- Storage infrastructure requirements
The "Expires" header is currently being standardized through the IETF RFC draft: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mailmaint-expires/ How to Use
- Install the extension
- Configure your preferences in settings
- Choose to delete (trash/permanent) or move expired emails
- Select which accounts and folders to monitor
- Enable dry run mode to test safely
- Let the extension work automatically!
Privacy
- No data collection
- No external connections
- All processing is done locally
- Open-source under GPLv3
Support
- GitHub
- Documentation: Full README available on GitHub
- Report issues: GitHub Issues