Mailboxes for each project
Each project gets its own mailboxes, collected in one column with a priority on every email.
Each project can have its own mailboxes, as many as you want. The studio connects to them itself, collects the mail of every project in one column, and shows how urgent each email is. A project that sells something gets its sales and support mailboxes next to its code, and what waits is counted on its card.
In development. Mail was built on 7 October 2026 and has been tried only against a mail server that the tests start on the same computer. It has not been tried on a real mailbox yet, and Outlook.com may refuse app passwords.
Add a mailbox
- Open the settings of the project. The sign is beside New session.
- Under Mailboxes of this project, click Add a mailbox.
- Write the Email address.
- Choose What this mailbox is for: General, Sales or Support.
- Under How to connect, leave App password (recommended), choose the Email service and paste the app password. The presets are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, iCloud, Zoho and Fastmail.
- Click Try and add.
An app password is made in the security settings of the email account. The account's usual password does not work here, and the form links to where to make one. For another provider, choose Servers written out (SMTP and IMAP) and write both servers, their ports and the encryption.
The studio tries both servers before it keeps anything. If one refuses, you read the server's own words. An address can belong to one project only.
The role matters. Every email that reaches a Sales or Support mailbox gets that tag. Emails of a General mailbox are read and tagged sales or support by the AI. The switch Read by AI turns that reading off for a mailbox. See Reading, tagging and answering email.
The mail column
Mail of every project sits in the column Email. Sort it by Most urgent first or Newest first, and show it as All in one list or Sales above, support below. Each row carries a priority percent. Folding the column leaves a strip with counts, and every other column folds the same way.
A project card shows how many unanswered emails wait, split into sales and support. Click that sign to see only that project's mail. See Project cards.
How the studio talks to the server
It speaks IMAP and SMTP itself, over TLS, and keeps one open line per mailbox. A server that supports IDLE tells it when mail arrives; for the others it looks once a minute. Fetching never marks mail as read. The first look reads the last 14 days, at most 300 messages, and later looks fetch only what is new.
Passwords stay in the Windows Credential Manager of this computer, not in the studio's data file. Emails go straight from the server to this computer and through nothing else.
When a mailbox fails
After two failed tries, or ten minutes, the mailbox turns red with the server's own words, and an alert Mailbox ... cannot connect appears. Check now tries again at once, and Last good check shows when it last worked. Removing a mailbox from the studio changes nothing on the server.
Mailboxes are added in the studio only. The phone's email tab reads and answers what you add here.
Small tips
Fold the mail column to a strip
The fold sign at the head of the column leaves a narrow strip with counts. The same works for every column, and the studio remembers it.
Click a project's mail sign to see only its mail
The sign on a project card shows its unanswered sales and support emails. Clicking it filters the column to that project.
Questions
Does the studio delete or mark my mail as read?
No. It fetches mail without marking it as read, and it never sends the command that erases mail for good.
Where is my mailbox password kept?
In the Windows Credential Manager of your computer, not in the studio's data file.