Show HN: Email Inbox for Bots

Is that possible this bot could understand and remember all my history emails, and then conduct Agentic RAG before helping on reply?

That would be useful for the drab use case of end to end testing. Every team had probably half arsed a test that needs to check an email inbox via smtp.

I have been using them for a little more than a year to add email capability to bots: https://www.cloudmailin.com/

What would be the advantage of switching over?

How well do you parse out message bodies for every email provider out there? I spent quite a long time making sure my bot can handle different email services and ensuring it’s getting the message body without all the other unnecessary text.

You could also build something like this with in val.town with their email handler[0]!

[0] https://docs.val.town/types/email/

I used to use https://www.mailslurp.com/ for that purpose and it worked fairly well. IIRC they even had a long-lived Keep-Alive endpoint where you would make a GET request and it would sit and wait for up to a few minutes until a message arrived.