📧 Local Gmail Classifier with AI

Classify your Gmail inbox using a local LLM (Llama 3, Gemma, etc.) - 100% Privacy-Focused.

This project automates email organization by fetching unread emails from your Gmail, analyzing them with a locally running Large Language Model (LLM), and applying granular labels automatically. No email data leaves your machine for classification!

✨ Features

• 🔒 Privacy First: Uses a local LLM server (e.g., via llama.cpp or Ollama). Your emails are not sent to OpenAI or Anthropic.
• 🏷️ Granular Classification: Automatically categorizes emails into:
  • bank-alert, finance, payments
  • job-application, interview, coding-assessment
  • newsletter, promotions, spam
  • social, travel, shopping
  • ...and more!
• 🤖 Smart & Context-Aware: Uses the email subject, snippet, and body to determine the best label.
• ⏱️ Automated: Runs as a background cron job (default: every 5 minutes).
• 🛠️ Easy Management: Includes a CLI helper to start/stop/monitor the service.

🚀 Prerequisites

1. Node.js: v18 or higher.
2. Local LLM Server:
   • You need an LLM running locally that accepts OpenAI-compatible requests.
   • Default URL: http://localhost:12434/engines/llama.cpp/v1
   • Tip: You can use Ollama or LocalAI. If using Ollama, you might need a proxy or ensure it exposes the OpenAI compatible endpoint.
3. Google Cloud Project:
   • Enable the Gmail API.
   • Create OAuth 2.0 Desktop App credentials.
   • Download the credentials.json file.

🛠️ Installation & Setup

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/gmail-classifier.git
cd gmail-classifier

2. Install Dependencies

npm install

3. Configure Environment Variables (Required)

Create a .env file in the project root based on the example:

cp .env.example .env

Edit .env with your settings:

# LLM Configuration
LLM_BASE_URL=http://localhost:12434/engines/llama.cpp/v1
LLM_API_KEY=sk-local-key
LLM_MODEL=ai/gemma3

# Cron Schedule (Default: Every 5 minutes)
CRON_SCHEDULE=*/5 * * * *

Note: The application will fail to start if LLM_BASE_URL or LLM_MODEL are missing.

4. Configure Credentials

Place your downloaded credentials.json file in the root directory of the project.

# It should look like this
ls -F
credentials.json  .env  package.json  src/ ...

🏃‍♂️ Usage

First Run (Authentication)

The first time you run the app, it will open your browser to authenticate with Google.

npx ts-node src/index.ts

Running as a Service (Recommended)

We provide a handy zsh helper script to manage the classifier as a background service.

1. Add to your shell: Add the following to your ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc):

   # Optional: Set custom project path if not in default location
   # export GMAIL_CLASSIFIER_DIR="/path/to/gmail-classifier"
       
   source /path/to/gmail-classifier/service.zsh

2. Reload shell:

   source ~/.zshrc

3. Commands:

   gmail-classifier start   # 🚀 Start the background service
   gmail-classifier status  # 🔍 Check if running
   gmail-classifier log     # 📄 View real-time logs
   gmail-classifier stop    # 🛑 Stop the service

⚙️ Customization

Modifying Labels

Edit src/prompts.ts to add or remove categories. The system will automatically create new labels in Gmail if they don't exist.

export const getLabels = (): string[] => {
  return [
    "urgent",
    "family",
    // ... add your own
  ];
};

Adjusting the Prompt

You can tweak the system prompt in src/prompts.ts to better suit your specific needs or to give the LLM more context about how you like things filed.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the project
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the ISC License - see the package.json file for details.