Observed arrival · 2026-10-30
Maze puts AI beside the inbox—and keeps it off by default
An open-source, local-first desktop email client built in Rust, with optional sandboxed agents and command-line access to mail.
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- Desktop email users seeking local storage and optional agent access
- Worth noticing
- The homepage reports roughly 12 ms p95 search over one million messages and labels the client pre-alpha.
Field notes
The homepage says users can add IMAP, Gmail, and Microsoft 365 accounts or import a Thunderbird profile, with mbox and Maildir imports also described. It reports encrypted local storage and search benchmarks, including about 12 ms p95 over one million messages, and identifies the startup figure as a warm start on Apple Silicon. Agents are presented as opt-in, with access mediated by explicit scopes; the page labels the client pre-alpha.
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