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Allowlists and Blocklists for Agent Mailboxes

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14 Jun
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29 Aug
Shadow-test a new AI email agent on live threads with Nylas

<p>You have an email agent that works in a test inbox. It classifies a support request, pulls the relevant context, and drafts a plausible reply. The risky next step is turning it

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29 Jun
Auto-file an AI agent's inbox with Rules and folders

<p>Most "AI email" demos point a model at a human's inbox and let it flail through whatever's there. That's fine for a read-only assistant. But the moment your agent <em>owns</em>

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22 Jun
Filter what your AI email agent sends and receives

<p>An AI agent with its own mailbox reacts to whatever lands in it. That's the point, until a spam blast, a mailer-daemon loop, or an auto-reply triggers the agent into answering

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13 Jul
Spin up ephemeral test inboxes for email integration tests

<p>Most teams test email by <em>not</em> testing it. The send path gets a mock — <code>expect(transport.send).toHaveBeenCalledWith(...)</code> — and everyone agrees that's "good

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22 Jun
Land your AI agent's email in the inbox, not spam

<p>You give your AI agent a real mailbox, it sends its first batch of email, and half of it lands in spam. The agent did nothing wrong. The domain did — it's new, it has no

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