Cleanup your Gmail Inbox with Apps Script

The Google Script will automatically archive all the messages in your Gmail inbox that are older than 2 days. You can either use a Gmail search filter to find read messages or you can compare the message date with the current date through the script and archive messages accordingly.

function cleanInbox() {

  var delayDays = 2;

  var maxDate = new Date();
  maxDate.setDate(maxDate.getDate()-delayDays);

  var threads = GmailApp.getInboxThreads();

  for (var i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
    if (threads[i].getLastMessageDate() function archiveInbox() {
  var threads = GmailApp.search('label:inbox is:read older_than:2d');
  for (var i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
    threads[i].moveToArchive();
  }
}

Amit Agarwal is a web geek, solo entrepreneur and loves making things on the Internet. Google recently awarded him the Google Developer Expert and Google Cloud Champion title for his work on Google Workspace and Google Apps Script.

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