Haakam21
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AgentMail provides the IMAP+SMTP server as managed service
AgentMail provides the IMAP+SMTP server. Other email providers ban email accounts created for agents, while that is what AgentMail is designed for.
I do think agents will become users in the same capacity as humans.
Thanks, yes we are continuously learning
Happy we could provide a solution!
Yes we are adding for email/domain allow/blocklists. Same for fine-grained permissions.
That is a compelling use case
We have had some users get banned from Gmail for using it Clawdbot. Regardless our API is way more agent friendly and I think your Clawdbot would agree.
This is already happening. Also with AgentMail.
Yup think there is plenty of ways the product can evolve evolve
The nice thing about email is that identity verification is already built in. In fact online identity is based on email.
Hmm why do you say that? Would love to hear your thoughts
This refers to B2B use cases that are live in production. Finding, contacting, and negotiating with vendors is a tedious process in many industries. In the time a human reaches out to 10 vendors, an agent reaches out to 100 or 1000. So it finds deals that a human would not have.
Because we built the same inbox infrastructure as Gmail. Inboxes have threads, threads have messages, messages have attachments. You can search, label, filter, reply, forward. None of this comes out of the box with SES.
Thats why we built it :)
We have an integration with n8n, will build one for Glean
Network effects - agents need to meet humans where they already work. Would rather use something standard than bespoke.
Don't know about all but certainly a significant proportion!
I think agentic email communication can be productive as well!
Nice seems like we are building towards a similar vision. Would love to collaborate!
This is a good point. We have anti-spam measures in place and allow users to configure allow/blocklists to mitigate attacks.
We have gotten a lot of requests for SMS. Seems like a natural next step.
Taking a look will make a fix asap
Yup plus webhooks are overkill for this. Need to set up a public HTTP server and pass messages to your agents. With websockets you can open connection right from your agent and close it in seconds once the 2FA code is delivered.
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Haakam21 on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:42AM
from the self-post dept.
Hey HN, we're Haakam, Michael, and Adi. We're building AgentMail (https://agentmail.to), the email inbox API for agents. We’re not talking about AI for your email, this is email for your AI.Email is an optimal interface for long-running agents. It’s multithreaded and asynchronous with full support for rich text and files. It’s a universal protocol with identity and authentication built in....
We have checks in place to detect and reject spam. Don't think rate limits are an effective solution for that either.