mjoach / unattach

Unattach allows you to free your Google storage by easily downloading and/or removing Gmail attachments from many emails at once.

Unattach

See homepage for more info.

Legal

• LICENSE.
  • tl;dr: No sharing. For personal use only. Can contribute via PRs to this repo.
• PRIVACY.
  • tl;dr: Your personal data flows only between Google servers and your computer.

Dependencies

• Install Java 15.
• Install Maven.

Build & Run

• Build with mvn clean package.
• Run with java -jar --enable-preview target/client-3.1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar.

Known Limitations

• On some emails, the app will fail with OutOfMemoryError even with the maximum heap size set to 2GB. This occurs when the Gmail API client library unpacks the downloaded email in local memory using a third-party JSON library, which appears to sometimes make inefficient use of the available memory. If this happens, the original email will remain intact, the memory will be recovered, and the processing will continue with the next email.

Contributions

Feel free to report issues and create pull requests.

Support Unattach

If you like Unattach:

• Buy Developers a Coffee ☕, or
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Current Sponsors

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