[MlMt] Local Email Client & AI Agents

[Luís Trevisan]

I would personally prefer MailMate to stay focused on being an email 
client.

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.

I can see tremendous value in AI agents for email workflows, but I would 
rather have them integrated around MailMate than inside MailMate.

MailMate for email. Agents for AI. Each tool doing what it does best.

Best,
Luís Trevisan

On 31 May 2026, at 12:21, Matthias via mailmate wrote:

> 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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