
Reviewing and revoking AI app connections to your mailbox
A runbook for the life of an AI app connected to your email: how OAuth grants work, a quarterly review, when to revoke, what revoking does, admin off switches.
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Blog · AI & email
AI triage, summaries, drafting and assistants that work with your mail, and how to keep a human in charge of every send.

A runbook for the life of an AI app connected to your email: how OAuth grants work, a quarterly review, when to revoke, what revoking does, admin off switches.
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How AI assistants turn your requests into mailbox searches, and how to phrase prompts with names, dates and domains to find the right thread the first time.
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An admin playbook for AI email agents: inherit user mailbox access, keep a workspace off switch, cut access on removal, scope by task, wall off sensitive mail.
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A five-tier capability model for AI in email: read, organize, draft, send and delete, with the risk and reversibility of each and why the line sits before send.
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Before you connect Claude, ChatGPT or another AI assistant to your email, run this checklist: account, permissions, sending, revocation, admin rules and logs.
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MCP, the Model Context Protocol, explained for people who live in email: clients and servers, how connections work, and what an email server should expose.
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Layered defenses against prompt injection in email: capability limits, human approval, untrusted-content handling, hidden HTML, tool chains and logging.
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A ready-to-use set of intent categories for a SaaS inbox, with definitions, example emails and routing for each, plus rules for keeping the list short.
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Answers to the accountability questions teams hit with AI drafts: who owns a reply, how to treat drafts, editing conflicts and whether to note AI use.
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Quoted history, signatures, context limits and who-said-what confusion: how AI models process long email threads, why summaries go wrong, and how to help them.
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Before-and-after examples of AI-drafted follow-ups after silence, after a meeting and after a fix, with the edits that remove filler and add a clear next step.
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Six situations where AI email sorting predictably gets it wrong, why each one fools the model, and the small habits and rules that cover the gaps.
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