[MlMt] Local Email Client & AI Agents

[Quinn Comendant]

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 *flexible integration with 
third party applications* – which is exactly what the [product 
description](https://freron.com/) says.

MM's APIs already allow me to use AI with MM with custom bundles, e.g., 
I have an `Add to Reminders` 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.

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.

Currently, my workflow is to export `.eml` files to a folder, then use 
Claude to find what I'm looking for. It's cumbersome because raw `.eml` 
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.

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?

Regards,
Quinn
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