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<p dir="auto">I would personally prefer MailMate to stay focused on being an email client.</p>
<p dir="auto">One of its greatest strengths is that it follows the classic Unix philosophy: do one thing and do it well. In my opinion, MailMate is the best email client available today precisely because of that focus.</p>
<p dir="auto">I can see tremendous value in AI agents for email workflows, but I would rather have them integrated around MailMate than inside MailMate.</p>
<p dir="auto">MailMate for email. Agents for AI. Each tool doing what it does best.</p>
<p dir="auto">Best,<br>
Luís Trevisan</p>
<p dir="auto">On 31 May 2026, at 12:21, Matthias via mailmate wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">on Sun, 31 May 2026 13:36:57 +0200<br>
Robert M. Münch <a href="mailto:robert.muench@saphirion.com" style="color: #777777;">robert.muench@saphirion.com</a> whispered:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I want to get some best practices and thoughts on the future of local<br>
email clients, which I much prefer to using a web mailer, and on the<br>
deeper integration of AI agents as the universal assistant into almost<br>
any application. However, most of these applications are web-based.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Mailmate is a IMAP-mail client - imho the best and should't do anything<br>
else.</p>
<p dir="auto">If Benny implements stuff like that, I'll delete MM and install Claws<br>
Mail on my Mac as well.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Let's not start a discussion about whether this is a good or bad<br>
trend; it's happening, and everyone can decide for themselves whether<br>
they like it. So, if you don't like it, good, and this discussion is<br>
mostly not for you.</p>
<p dir="auto">My main question is about any form of "AI Inbox" or "AI helper" that I<br>
can ask, like, "Who is waiting on an answer from me?" "Summarize me<br>
the conversation with company X", "What are the next 10 deadlines I<br>
have to care about?", etc.</p>
<p dir="auto">GMail introduced "AI Inbox" in the US; it's not yet available in<br>
Europe. We will see... but having an AI agent besides pure search can<br>
be a huge help in handling many emails and parallel topics.</p>
<p dir="auto">Some unsorted thoughts:</p>
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<li>Load all messages into a database that has full-text search, vector</li>
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<p dir="auto">similarity, and graph traversals over multimodal data, combining it<br>
with RAG. Something like <a href="https://github.com/antflydb/antfly" style="color: #999999;">https://github.com/antflydb/antfly</a>, or even a<br>
NotebookLM-like backend.</p>
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<li>Link MM to such a system, maybe natively or via a plug-in, or ...</li>
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<p dir="auto">and let me access such a backend through the search interface.</p>
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<li>Maybe MM should become an MCP server, to which I can connect my</li>
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<p dir="auto">agent. But I could connect the agent directly to Gmail.</p>
<ul>
<li>Let the agent work with Gmail directly, and somehow bridge its work</li>
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<p dir="auto">into MM, where I'm the human-in-the-loop. The simplest would be to let<br>
the agent draft a bunch of emails with a specific review label.</p>
<p dir="auto">So, my main line of thought is that there will be a nearby point where<br>
having an agent available for my email management creates a lot of<br>
value, and increasing utilization will render the desktop client<br>
obsolete.</p>
<p dir="auto">Any thoughts, or maybe practical experiences, work patterns, best<br>
practices?</p>
<p dir="auto">Viele Grüsse</p>
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<p dir="auto">Robert M. Münch</p>
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<p dir="auto">cheers<br>
Matthias</p>
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