[MlMt] Local Email Client & AI Agents

[Matthias]

on Sun, 31 May 2026 13:36:57 +0200
Robert M. Münch <robert.muench at saphirion.com> whispered:

>I want to get some best practices and thoughts on the future of local
>email clients, which I much prefer to using a web mailer, and on the
>deeper integration of AI agents as the universal assistant into almost
>any application. However, most of these applications are web-based.

Mailmate is a IMAP-mail client - imho the best and should't do anything
else.

If Benny implements stuff like that, I'll delete MM and install Claws
Mail on my Mac as well.





>
>Let's not start a discussion about whether this is a good or bad
>trend; it's happening, and everyone can decide for themselves whether
>they like it. So, if you don't like it, good, and this discussion is
>mostly not for you.
>
>My main question is about any form of "AI Inbox" or "AI helper" that I
>can ask, like, "Who is waiting on an answer from me?" "Summarize me
>the conversation with company X", "What are the next 10 deadlines I
>have to care about?", etc.
>
>GMail introduced "AI Inbox" in the US; it's not yet available in
>Europe. We will see... but having an AI agent besides pure search can
>be a huge help in handling many emails and parallel topics.
>
>Some unsorted thoughts:
>
>* Load all messages into a database that has full-text search, vector
>similarity, and graph traversals over multimodal data, combining it
>with RAG. Something like https://github.com/antflydb/antfly, or even a
>NotebookLM-like backend.
>
>* Link MM to such a system, maybe natively or via a plug-in, or ...
>and let me access such a backend through the search interface.
>
>* Maybe MM should become an MCP server, to which I can connect my
>agent. But I could connect the agent directly to Gmail.
>
>* Let the agent work with Gmail directly, and somehow bridge its work
>into MM, where I'm the human-in-the-loop. The simplest would be to let
>the agent draft a bunch of emails with a specific review label.
>
>So, my main line of thought is that there will be a nearby point where
>having an agent available for my email management creates a lot of
>value, and increasing utilization will render the desktop client
>obsolete.
>
>Any thoughts, or maybe practical experiences, work patterns, best
>practices?
>
>Viele Grüsse
>
>--
>
>Robert M. Münch




cheers
Matthias
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