AI-Powered Email Cleanup
A local AI model classifies your emails and suggests what's safe to remove from the server. Everything runs on your machine. No email data ever leaves your device.
How It Works
1. Open Email Cleanup
Open Email Cleanup for an account. It uses cached email headers and needs no model download.
2. Automatic Classification
Local rules, a Naive Bayes classifier and built-in heuristics sort mail into Newsletter, Promotional, Transactional, Personal, Work and Spam.
3. Review & Clean Up
Review each category before acting. Archive saves and verifies a vault copy before removing the server copy; Delete removes mail from the server without first archiving it.
100% Private. Zero Cloud.
Cleanup classifies mail on your computer. It does not send email content, metadata or addresses to an AI service. The separate AI writing tools can use a provider you choose.
- Classification runs on your computer using cached headers
- No email content, metadata, or addresses leave your machine
- Correct a category to train the classifier on your mail
System Requirements
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Cleanup need an AI model download?
No. Cleanup uses local rules, a Naive Bayes classifier and built-in heuristics. It learns from your category corrections without downloading an LLM.
Is Cleanup the same as AI writing?
No. AI writing has its own provider settings for Apple Intelligence, a downloaded model, or a compatible endpoint such as Ollama. Changing that provider does not change the Cleanup classifier.
What happens when I "delete from server"?
Delete removes the server copy and does not create a vault copy first. Use Archive in Cleanup to save and verify a local copy before removing it from the server. Time Capsule can show saved history, but cannot recover a message that was never saved.
Does the AI learn from my corrections?
Yes. When you reclassify an email, MailVault records the correction. After enough corrections for the same pattern (like a specific sender domain), a local rule is auto-generated. These rules are applied before the AI, making classification faster and more accurate over time.
Can I share my learned rules?
Yes. Export your rules as an anonymized JSON file from Settings. The export contains only domain patterns and category mappings — no email addresses, names, or message content. Others can import your rules to benefit from your classification preferences.
Does this require a subscription?
Email Cleanup and Time Capsule are Premium features. Core email archiving and reading remain free forever.