A personal mailbox assistant
emailz is a single-user application. It reads and organises its owner's own Gmail mailboxes and reports back over a private Discord server. It is not a product, it is not offered to other people, and there is no sign-up.
What it does
emailz is one part of a self-hosted assistant that runs on hardware in its owner's home. Against the mailboxes it is connected to, it:
- posts a short daily digest of what arrived — what looks like it needs a reply, what is worth reading, and how much of the rest was bulk mail;
- performs triage actions on request — archive, mark as read, apply a label, or move to trash;
- relays text messages, by reading them out of a Google Voice mailbox and forwarding them to a private Discord channel.
Who can use it
Nobody but its owner. The application is connected to three mailboxes belonging to one person. There is no public interface, no account creation, and no way for another person to connect a mailbox to it.
What it does with mail
Message data stays on the owner's own hardware, with one exception that is worth stating plainly: to write the daily digest, the sender, subject, and a truncated preview snippet of recent messages are sent to a large language model API for summarising. Full message bodies are never sent, and nothing is sold, published, or shared with anyone else.
The privacy policy sets this out in full, including which Google account permissions are used and why.
Removing its access
The owner can revoke this application's access to any Google account at any time from Google Account permissions. Doing so immediately stops all reading and all triage.