Cleanup

Mailhopper can clear clutter for you: block a sender, auto-file mail from a sender, age out old mail, unsubscribe in one tap, or act on many messages at once.

Every cleanup action is a real IMAP move in your mailbox, not a filter on your email provider. Because Mailhopper acts on your actual mail, the changes show up in every mail app and on every device. New mail is filed within seconds of arriving; while Mailhopper is offline, your rules catch up the next time it connects.

Block a sender

When you're reading something you never want to see again, press Block sender in the reading pane. Mailhopper records the sender and moves that message to Trash, and every future message from that sender is moved to Trash automatically.

Manage your block list under Settings → Rules → Blocked senders. Add a rule by full email address or by whole domain, and remove one anytime.

Blocking moves mail to Trash after it arrives; it doesn't tell the sender anything and doesn't reject mail at your provider. To stop a legitimate newsletter, use Unsubscribe below instead.

Report junk

When something belongs in the spam pile, press Report junk (or !) to move it from your inbox to Junk. To pull a good message out of Junk, or undo a report, use Not junk. Both are real moves in your mailbox, so they match in every mail app.

To keep out future mail from a junk sender too, turn on Auto-block junk senders under Settings → Rules. With it on, reporting a message as junk also adds a rule that sends that sender's later mail straight to Junk. Senders you've auto-blocked this way are listed under Junk senders, where you can remove any of them.

Auto-archive a sender

To keep a sender's mail out of your inbox without losing it (receipts and notifications, say), add an Auto-archive sender rule under Settings → Rules. Matching mail is moved straight to your Archive folder instead of the inbox, by email address or domain.

Always archive from a sender

You can set an auto-archive rule as you read, without opening Settings. While reading a message, press ⇧E to archive it and always archive that sender from then on. A plain archive instead offers a quick prompt, Always archive from this sender?, which you can take or ignore (it doesn't ask again once a sender is set). Either way the rule lands under Settings → Rules, where you can remove it.

Digest a sender

To collect a sender's mail into a scheduled recap instead of your inbox, add a Digest sender rule under Settings → Rules. See Digests for how the daily and weekly recaps work.

Clean up existing mail, too

When you add a sender rule (block, auto-archive, or digest), Mailhopper offers to also clean up existing matching mail, sweeping what's already in your inbox in one go, not just future messages. Leave the box checked to clear the backlog, or uncheck it to apply the rule going forward only.

Retention

Set mail to clear itself after a while. Under Settings → Retention, pick a folder, a number of days, and whether older mail is archived or moved to Trash.

Example

Inbox · older than 90 days · move to Trash keeps your inbox to the last three months.

Runs daily

Mailhopper checks your retention rules once a day and files anything past its age.

Unsubscribe

Open a newsletter or promotional email and press Unsubscribe. Mailhopper uses the message's own unsubscribe method, so you don't have to hunt for a link at the bottom: a one-click unsubscribe where the sender supports it, or an unsubscribe email sent on your behalf. The button is available only when a message offers one of those; it's greyed out for senders that offer nothing but a plain web link to open yourself.

If a sender comes back

Mailhopper remembers who you unsubscribe from. If one of them emails you again, a banner on the message reminds you that you unsubscribed, and when, with Block sender to stop them for good or Dismiss to let it pass.

Review the list any time under Settings → Rules → Unsubscribed senders, where each sender shows whether it's still sending and how many messages have arrived since you unsubscribed. Remove an entry to stop tracking it.

Bulk actions

Select multiple messages in the list (tick their checkboxes; hold Shift to pick a range), then apply one action to all of them at once:

Action	What it does
Mark read	Marks every selected message read.
Archive	Moves them all out of the inbox to Archive.
Delete	Moves them all to Trash (recoverable).
Add to digest	Sets them all aside into your Daily or Weekly digest.

Combine bulk actions with search: search a sender or subject, select the results, and clear them in one action.