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Paperweight V1 - Your inbox knows where your data lives (www.paperweight.email)

submitted 1 week ago by wslyvh@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I shared Paperweight earlier here as it was being actively developed and still in beta. After almost 7 months, I'm excited to finally release Paperweight V1 as ready 🗿

Paperweight uses your inbox to map your digital footprint, then helps you take back control and delete your data.

Your email history contains traces of most of your online life. Accounts you created, companies you bought from, mailing lists you joined, services you forgot about, breaches, and personal information accumulated over the years.

Paperweight helps to map your footprint, take back control and delete your data. All locally on your computer.

V1 now includes:

discover accounts, companies and services connected to your email
find mailing lists and subscriptions
show known breaches affecting services you use
find personal information across your email history
bulk unsubscribe and clean up old email
create privacy and data deletion requests
manage multiple email accounts
connect to AI agents through MCP

It supports Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, custom IMAP and Proton Mail via Bridge.

The important part for me from the beginning was privacy. All your data stays on your computer. There is no Paperweight backend or external services processing your inbox.

It's also fully open source under MIT.

The free version now includes full-history scanning and discovery, so you can map and inspect your entire footprint. A Pro license makes it actionable. It gives you ease of use, compiled binaries and support and helps support (OSS) development.

Website: https://paperweight.email/
Source: https://github.com/wslyvh/paperweight

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[–] AzuraTheSpellkissed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or if it works offline on an inbox dump, like pst files. It looks like it's accessing the obvious using IMAP right?

It running locally and having source code available are already great attributes.

I'm usually unhappy with the "just audit the code for yourself" argument, not just because doing that is limited to (experienced) programmers, but often because of the sheer size and (un)readability of the code. I didn't have a deep dive to give a proper review, just looked at a few files and the code is at least well written and readable, so "just audit this code" isn't completely out off question.

Thank you for sharing!

[I'm not saying that the expectation of every piece of software needs to be that every one can audit the code, I don't want to pressure you into thinking that's what users demand, OP. Especially of the alternative is often to trust closed source options from shady companies]