Flux AI is the assistant built into Fluxmail. Ask it, in plain language, to find a message, summarize a thread, write a reply, or take care of something in your mail.
Opening the assistant
There are two ways to reach Flux AI. Open the Flux AI tab in the sidebar for the full chat view, or pop it open as a side panel from anywhere else in the app so you can chat while you read your mail. Either way, type a request the way you'd ask a colleague. When a thread is open, you can point at it directly: "summarize this email" or "draft a reply to this."
What you can ask
Find and understand mail
- "Find emails from Stripe about failed payments."
- "What did the legal team say about the contract?"
- "Summarize this thread."
When Flux AI mentions a message, it drops in a small footnote you can click to jump straight to the thread.
Draft and reply
- "Draft a reply saying I'll have it done by Friday."
- "Write an intro email to Priya at Acme."
Flux AI writes in your voice, learned from your sent mail, and shifts tone depending on who you're writing to. By default it saves a draft for your review rather than sending. Ask it to revise a draft and it will.
If you'd rather it send, just say so: "send this" or "reply and send it." Before anything actually goes out, it shows you an approve card so you can read it over first.
Take action
- "Archive everything from this sender."
- "Star this and mark it read."
- "Snooze this until tomorrow morning."
- "Reply to this and send it once I've approved."
- "Send the draft you just wrote."
- "Schedule this to go out tomorrow at 9am."
- "Create a task to follow up next week."
- "Make a rule that labels invoices and archives them."
- "Turn off the rule that archives newsletters."
Safe actions vs. approvals
Most actions just run and report back: archiving, marking read or unread, starring, labeling, snoozing, saving drafts, and creating tasks.
The ones that leave your mailbox or are hard to undo ask first. Sending an email (or scheduling one for later), trashing mail, and marking as spam each pop up an approve/deny card before anything happens. Changes to your rules do too. Creating a rule shows a card laying out its conditions and actions, and updating or deleting one asks before it takes effect.
What it can do for you
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Read | search your mail, read a thread, summarize, look up a contact |
| Organize | archive, move to inbox, mark read/unread, star, add or remove labels |
| Defer | snooze a thread, create a task with a due date |
| Write | draft a new email, a reply (recipients come from the thread — reply to the sender, or ask for reply-all to include everyone), or a forward, and revise a saved draft |
| Send | send an email, reply, or forward, send a draft you already have (it's removed from Drafts afterward), or schedule one for later, always with your approval |
| Automate | create a rule, and list, update, or delete existing ones (changes ask first) |
| Remember | save a lasting preference when you ask it to |
AI overview in search
Flux AI also shows up in Search. When your query reads like a question or includes a few words of plain language, an AI overview streams in above the results, pulling an answer together from your mail with the same clickable citations. Operators are fine alongside it, so something like from:alice what did we decide still gets an overview. A bare keyword or operator search like from:stripe just shows the results.
What's next
See how AI drafting writes replies and emails in your voice.