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Email ​

Kumbukum's email feature turns your inbox into searchable, AI‑triaged context that lives alongside your notes, memories, and URLs. Forward email into a project, and Kumbukum parses it, stores it, threads it, and (optionally) classifies it so you can focus on what actually needs a reply.

What's in this section ​

  • Settings — turn on auto‑triage, customize AI instructions, add your own API keys, and configure outbound SMTP identities per project.
  • Parsing — what Kumbukum does to an inbound email: extract headers and body, sanitize HTML, pull text out of attachments, dedupe, and thread.
  • Forwarding — the how‑to. Find your per‑project forwarding address and point your mail provider at it.
  • Viewing — the Email Command Center (ECC), mailboxes, labels, thread view, drafts, and internal notes.
  • Triage — how the AI classifies emails, what context it uses, and what it does automatically.

Stay in your inbox

If you live in Gmail, Outlook, or Fastmail, the Browser Extension is often the fastest way to use Kumbukum's email features — it auto‑detects the email you're reading and brings Summarize, Suggest reply, Internal notes, and one‑click ingest into a side panel without you ever leaving your mail client.

Project emails vs the Email Command Center ​

Every email in Kumbukum belongs to a project — that's where it's stored, indexed, and searchable. The Email Command Center at /ecc is a global, cross‑project view of those same emails: one inbox, one triage workflow, one place to work through everything no matter which project it landed in.

In short:

  • A project email is the underlying record (project‑scoped, searchable from AI Chat and MCP).
  • The ECC is a viewing surface on top of those records. Filter by "All projects" to see everything, or pick a project from the dropdown to narrow down.

There aren't two kinds of email — just two ways of looking at the same data.

How it fits with the rest of Kumbukum ​

Ingested emails are indexed in Typesense and become first‑class context: they show up in AI Chat answers, in the Knowledge Graph alongside notes and memories, and through the Emails API and MCP tools for external clients.