TEterhechte·May 10, 2025
I build something to visualize huge amounts of email (such as from Gmail) some years ago:
https://github.com/terhechte/postsack
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Visually cluster your emails by sender, domain, and more to identify waste
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8 sourcesI've recently used trunk for the first time. It is a huge improvement to the current way of building a Rust wasm app. For one of my apps that doesn't use trunk, I'm maintaining these two scripts to set up a system and to compile a wasm bundle:
- https://github.com/terhechte/postsack/blob/main/postsack-web...
- https://github.com/terhechte/postsack/blob/main/postsack-web...
Trunk allows me to remove these scripts and offers live reloading of changes in my Rust code. It is a great experience. I know that there're similar tools for React etc, but I'm not aware of another tool that works this well with Rust.
In Trunk – Build, bundle and ship your rust WASM application to the webTerhechte/postsack: Visually cluster your emails by sender, domain, and more
6 points · Open discussionPostsack: A high level visual overview of swaths of email
3 points · Open discussionI wrote a cross platform Desktop app that can analyze these email backups to provide a visual clustering of the contents of your mails.
https://github.com/terhechte/postsack
It parses my 13gb Gmail backup in under a minute.
In Imap-backup: Backup Gmail or other IMAP accounts to diskIf you do such a gmail backup, I wrote a cross platform Desktop app that can analyze these email backups to provide a visual clustering of the contents of your mails.
https://github.com/terhechte/postsack
It parses 500k mails in < 1 Minute, so it is quite fast. There's a web / wasm build of the UI here:
https://terhech.de/web_demo/
In Imap-backup: Backup Gmail or other IMAP accounts to diskI recently finished a cross platform app written w/ Rust / egui: https://github.com/terhechte/postsack
Coming from Swift, it was actually a fun experience. It doesn’t look very native, but neither does electron..
Another nice Rust ui framework is Druid: https://github.com/linebender/druid
In Ask HN: Building a Desktop App in 2022Show HN: Cross platform Rust GUI to analyze and cleanup stacks of emails
3 points · Open discussion