Matheus has been an amazing addition to the Jmail team. If you're interested in contributing, we open sourced all the Reducto-parsed data at https://data.jmail.world
Many Yahoo emails do show you the original source, and the original is just an EML file. These were files directly exported from Epstein's Yahoo account. Bloomberg used these EMLs to confirm that the Yahoo emails are real (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-09-12/epstei...).
We don't tamper with these EMLs, so we currently don't make the EML accessible if the team had to redact any contents of that email.
Also, that says "Verified by Drop Site News", not Sponsored by. That's because Drop Site redacted these real Yahoo emails and gave them to Jmail. The original Yahoo dataset, which the DOJ and House Oversight Committee did not release, is stewarded by DDoSecrets (https://ddosecrets.org/article/epstein-emails).
Jmail maintainer and co-creator here. Very excited to see that someone finally made Jemini good!
Our development process has been interesting. Although just Riley and I first made Jmail, it's been really gratifying to see companies, journalists, and fellow developers like Diego rise to the occasion to make this entire suite of apps as high quality and extensive as possible.
Sorry about that. That Attachments tab shows you literal attachments found in the .eml files from the YAHOO dataset. We have released very few .emls that have attachments though. Expect more and more over time.
Releasing YAHOO responsibly has been time consuming, and we're relying on Drop Site to tackle the redactions. See this post for context.
Yes! We used our friends at Reducto (https://reducto.ai/) for all document extraction and parsing (one of the best companies I've ever referred to YC ;) )
We did an initial parsing pass of all four DOJ document batches on Friday. This takes a raw PDF and returns chunks containing typed blocks—each with a type (Title, Text, Figure, etc.), bounding boxes, content, and confidence scores. For PDFs that were just scans of photographs (which was like 90% of new content in Friday's release), it gave in depth descriptions of those! You can type search terms like "door" at https://www.jmail.world/photos to see what I mean.
For apps like Jmail and JFlights we use their structured extraction endpoint instead—you define a schema (e.g. {from, to, subject, date, body} for emails or {departure_airport, arrival_airport, passengers[], date} for flights) and it pulls those fields directly into JSON.
The JFlights example served as the best ad for Reducto and how doc parsing technology can speed up hours of journalistic investigations like this.
Another person made an oddly beautiful ASCII ui for the text messages. All seem to be from HOUSE_OVERSIGHT (we have those plus DOJ, YAHOO. No dedicated text UI from us)
Re: the DOJ emails prefixed with "EFTA", I have no idea how over-redacted they are. They definitely seem dubious though.
Re: the DDoSecrets emails though (YAHOO dataset), I have more to share.
Drop Site News agreed to give us access to the Yahoo dataset discovered by DDoSecrets, but on the condition that we help redact it. It's a completely unfiltered dataset. It's literally just .eml files for [email protected]. It includes many attached documents. There is no illegal imagery, but it has photos of Epstein's extended family (nephews, nieces, etc) and headshots of many models that Epstein's executive assistant would send to him. I was quite shocked that this thing existed.
We built some internal redaction tools that the Drop Site team is now using to comb through all of this. We've released 5 batches of the Yahoo mail now, with the 1k+ Amazon receipts being the most recent.
Unlike the DOJ, we've tried to minimize the ambiguity about what was redacted.
For example: all redacted images are replaced with a Gemini-generated description of that photograph.
Another example: we are aggressively redacting email addresses and phone numbers of normal people to avoid spamming them. Perhaps others would leave it all in, but Riley and I don't want to be responsible for these people's lives getting disrupted by this entire saga. For example, we redacted this guy's email but not his name: https://www.jmail.world/thread/4accfb5f3ed84656e9762740081a4...
Riley and I were not expecting this type of scope when we first dropped Jmail. Jmail is an interesting side project for us, and this new dataset requires full-time attention. Thankfully we have help though. We're happy to take on this responsibility given how helpful, thoughtful and careful both the Drop Site and DDoSecrets team has been here.
Thank you! I tried to optimize scrolling through the photos the most. Avoided any virtualization library, used Cloudflare for image transformations and for caching, etc. The masonry layout and polish you see here is all https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=walz though
Yes, shoutout to our friend Aidan Dunlap for making an entire interface to see those Amazon orders! It's at https://www.jmail.world/jamazon
Jmail is the only place to see those Amazon order emails by the way! Those are from his Yahoo, which Bloomberg announced in September but Drop Site News actually let us release this month. It all came from https://ddosecrets.com/article/epstein-emails (redactions of the full dataset still taking place)
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