> To be clear about what this isn’t: we have not integrated AI into Fastmail. There’s no chatbot bolted onto the inbox, and your mail isn’t being piped through a model in the background. The MCP server is simply another API endpoint for you to use, if you want to, with the AI client of your choice.

>That distinction matters to us. Our long-term values include “Your data belongs to you” and “We are good stewards of your data”. The pattern we try to follow is: rather than continuously reworking our UI to follow every new trend, we give you the interfaces to use your data however it suits you. MCP continues that pattern. It’s there if you want it, and nothing changes if you don’t.

This is really refreshing and makes me feel like I made the right decision in moving off Gmail after 20 years to Fastmail last year

This is great, I built a manual integration based on JMAP and CalDav cli tooling, but this is neat. Especially:

> The OAuth consent screen will give you a choice of three levels of access: read-only (see emails, contacts, calendars), write (update emails, save drafts, edit contacts and events), and send (send emails).

As a note for those that use Fastmail, Fastmail stores all your data in the US, if that is important to you.

As someone who's immensely skeptical about AI, this is probably the best usecase I've seen for it after code reviews. I wish Thunderbird would get AI integration.

this is good, thanks!

i just use zoho, their email is $1 a month or something. Haven't felt need of jmap yet.

using imap idle in our multiple helpdesks (i use for many different app supports)