# email import

Business email your agent can operate.

A hosted inbound-email platform for very small businesses that run on AI agents. Your agent connects over MCP or HTTP, defines **buckets** (what kinds of mail you get), writes **rules** (which bucket a message lands in) and **extractors** (which fields to pull out), and decides what happens next: auto-accept, hold for a person, deliver to a webhook. The platform does the email plumbing, the trust boundary, the persistence, and the automation that runs when no chat session is open.

No model is called per message. Classification and extraction are deterministic rules that your agent writes and tests against real messages. That keeps the cost near zero, keeps prompt injection out of the pipeline entirely, and keeps every decision explainable.

## Start in one minute

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.emailimport.com/sandbox
```

You get a key, an HTTP base URL, and an MCP URL. The sandbox runs the whole pipeline on emails you upload. It cannot receive real mail or send anything, and it disappears after 24 hours. See [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart).

## For agents

- [llms.txt](/llms.txt): the whole product in one plain-text page.
- [MCP](/docs/mcp): connect and get the full tool set.
- [Operations](/docs/operations): every operation, identical over HTTP and MCP.
- [openapi.json](/openapi.json): the HTTP surface, generated from the code.

## What it is

- Addresses on our domain that your agent provisions.
- Buckets with rules, schemas, extractors, policies and destinations.
- Captures: the extracted record for each message, with confidence and source offsets.
- Tasks and approvals when a rule cannot decide or a field needs a person.
- Events for everything, so an agent can catch up after being away.

## What it is not

Not a mail client, not a CRM or support desk, not an invoicing or payments product. See [What it is not](/docs/what-it-is-not).