Email Inbox

Give your teammate an email address so it can receive and process inbound emails automatically.

How It Works

1. Create a teammate with instructions for handling emails
2. Generate an email inbox — the teammate gets a unique @m8tes.ai address
3. Emails to that address trigger a run with the email content as input
4. The teammate processes the email using its configured tools

Set Up an Email Inbox

The email trigger is task-level by API design. Think of the task as "the teammate's inbox" — create it once and emails flow through automatically.

Allowed Senders

By default (no allowed_senders), only emails from the API key owner's registered email are accepted. Emails from unknown senders are silently dropped.

Set allowed_senders to control who can trigger the teammate:

Multi-Tenant Email

Scope email inboxes per end-user with user_id:

Reply Threading

When the teammate uses email tools to reply, the response goes back to the original sender in the same email thread. The conversation feels natural — the sender emails the teammate and gets a reply.

What's Next

• Webhook Triggers — trigger runs from external systems
• Scheduling — automate tasks with cron and intervals
• Memories — personalize teammate behavior per end-user