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Mail

The Mail window reads and writes the mail account set up in Settings › Mail. It works over IMAP for reading and SMTP for sending. Open it from the Mail entry of the menu bar.

A mail is a source, never an instruction. Nothing in this window hands a mail to the voice assistant, to Hermes or to an agent. The one model call is the draft button of the composer, and only on your click.

Setting up the account​

Without an account the window says Mail is not set up. Its button, Open Settings › Mail, leads to the setup page.

That page offers presets: Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Proton Bridge and Other. You give an Address, a Display name and an App password. The password is encrypted on this machine.

  • Gmail comes with a six-step guide to create an app password.
  • Outlook fits work accounts that still allow app passwords. Outlook.com has refused them since 2024.
  • Proton Bridge needs Proton Mail Bridge running on this machine.

Check tests the connection to the IMAP and SMTP servers. Forget the account asks a second time before it acts.

The same account sends meeting recaps. With In the morning briefing ticked, the briefing says the number of unread mails and the last five senders and subjects.

The list​

The list shows the Inbox and the folders your server marks: Sent, Drafts and Archive. A folder the server does not mark is not offered.

The window reads the folder on Refresh, then every 5 minutes while it is open. Closed, it reads nothing.

Search takes a sender or a subject. The search runs on the server.

Reading a mail​

A mail with HTML opens as HTML. The View switch offers As the sender laid it out or As text.

  • The HTML is cleaned and drawn in a sealed frame: no script runs and no link navigates the window.
  • Remote images are blocked. Showing them tells the sender you opened the mail. Show images loads them for this mail. Always for this sender keeps that choice for the sender, and Remove undoes it.
  • Links in the frame do nothing on a click. The list under the frame shows each link's real address and opens it in your browser.

Opening a mail marks it as read, and the window says so. Mark unread sits next to that line.

Attachments are listed with their name and size. Save as… writes one to disk. The app never opens it and never runs it.

Acting on a mail​

  • Reply, Reply all and Forward open the composer. Attachments are not forwarded, and the composer says so.
  • Archive moves the mail to the archive folder.
  • Move to trash asks first. The mail moves to the trash and nothing is deleted.
  • Keep in a vault writes the mail as a Markdown file into a vault you pick. Nothing is preselected, and a protected vault is marked as such.

In Drafts, Continue reopens a draft in the composer.

Writing​

The composer takes recipients separated by commas. Cc and Bcc fold until you open them. A message goes to 50 recipients at most.

Draft with the model asks your model for a draft, from what you want to say. It is one call, and the composer shows its size first in characters and tokens. Memory recall is off for that call. The mail you answer goes in as quoted text, never as instructions.

Send… never sends. It opens a confirmation that lists every recipient, To, Cc and Bcc apart. Only Confirm sending sends.

  • When the server does not answer in time, the window says the message may have left. It tells you to check your Sent folder before you send again.
  • After a send, the window says whether a copy was filed in Sent.
  • Save as draft puts the message in your Drafts folder. A new save replaces the older draft, which moves to the trash.

From far away​

Zoom the canvas out below 70% and the window shows the inbox's unread count, large, with the three newest senders. Until the server has answered, the count shows a dash, never a zero.