on Sun, 31 May 2026 13:36:57 +0200 Robert M. Münch <[email protected]> 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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