Triage your Mail.ru inbox without opening the mailbox

The agent connects to the mailbox over IMAP and SMTP: the first thing it reads is the folder list, and from there it works with the messages themselves — subject, sender, date, body and attachments. It goes through the unread ones and shows which are waiting for a reply, finds a message by sender or subject and pulls the invoice, act or contract out of it to read what is inside rather than retell the file name.

What gets connected is not the account password but a separate app password, and its type decides everything: with full mailbox access the agent reads folders and writes messages, while on the send-only type the folders do not open at all. One pair of address and password serves both IMAP and SMTP, so reading a thread and sending the reply run over a single connection rather than two.

IMAP is not a copy of the mail but the mailbox itself: a read flag, a move to another folder and a deletion are applied on the server and show up immediately in all of your mail clients. So the agent triages the inbox step by step: first it shows what it found, and only then sorts, marks as read or deletes. A reply in a thread, a forward and a new email over SMTP are sent from your own address.

Access is limited to a single mailbox — the one whose address and app password are connected; other mailboxes and shared company folders stay invisible to the agent. The password itself is revoked separately in the Mail.ru settings, without changing the account password. The agent holds the request rate to the server on its own, and if the messages you asked for were not found or a folder is unavailable, it says so directly instead of showing an empty list.