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<p dir="auto">I agree with the others that it would be out-of-scope for MailMate to have integrated AI features. I think the correct feature boundary is for MM to remain a high quality IMAP client with <em>flexible integration with third party applications</em> – which is exactly what the <a href="https://freron.com/" style="color: #3983C4;">product description</a> says.</p>
<p dir="auto">MM's APIs already allow me to use AI with MM with custom bundles, e.g., I have an <code style="margin: 0; padding: 0 0.4em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">Add to Reminders</code> command that takes selected message(s), runs them through a local LLM to summarize, then creates a Reminders.app item with the summary and URL linked back to the email.</p>
<p dir="auto">One of the pain points for me now is finding specific information in a cluster of email threads. For example, I need to find a design detail mentioned in 100s of emails regarding a client project. This can be solved by using semantic/NL/vector search or dumping all the messages into the context window of a LLM.</p>
<p dir="auto">Currently, my workflow is to export <code style="margin: 0; padding: 0 0.4em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">.eml</code> files to a folder, then use Claude to find what I'm looking for. It's cumbersome because raw <code style="margin: 0; padding: 0 0.4em; border-radius: 3px; background-color: #F7F7F7;">.eml</code> messages can't directly be searched (maybe some are base64 encoded), so Claude has to write a script to process the messages. I've tried hybrid search tools like Antfly or Vera, but they have the same problem of being unable to read email files directly. There are mail-specific search tools, but I haven't found any that use a semantic/NL/vector search index. It would help if MM was able to export messages as plain text, but that's not an ultimate solution.</p>
<p dir="auto">So, I'm not sure how to integrate this functionality to MM. I wouldn't want to add LLM/semantic search to MM, but I do need a way for LLM/semantic search tools to access the mail. Any ideas?</p>
<p dir="auto">Regards,<br>
Quinn</p>
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