Same here. While I'd rather not have an embedded AI chat window, is there a way to disable it?

The homepage says “off by default”

Then my 'amail' client seems to fit the bill.. (OSS, rust, I use it on Linux and haven't tested elsewhere) ..not really suggesting it – it's pretty barebones and just whatever I've needed, but you're welcome to it obviously! Especially if you have issues/PRs to spur me on to features I've wanted too...

If you took the time to read, it is an optional feature and uses local models.

I would love an email client that automatically sorts my mails via a local LLM.

As long as it tries to be the "I" in "AI" and do something useful like automatically detect conversations with my accountant, per project and not per sender mails including somehow labeling mails referring to multiple projects with multiple labels etc.

Not that I think this mail client can do that...

Second that. I can’t really think of a better application for LLMs than this. In fact, this might be the only good application.

Drafting emails with LLMs is... ugh.

And assistant chat? Really?

Okay, two things might be great: translations (preferably local, e.g. using Project Bergamot) and message summary (in case somebody does send an unedited blob of LLM slop to me and social dynamics don’t let me send it to spam).

Has AI functionality available if you enable it, but doesn't come bundled with anything, you connect your local LLM or Claude if you have to, you can also use OpenRouter or whatever you want, go cloud or go local, up to you (if you're interested in AI), otherwise, disable it