Inbox + AI reply drafts

The /inbox page is your unified outreach inbox — every sent, received, and drafted email in one place.

• All — every message
• Sent — your outbound SENT messages
• Received — inbound replies from prospects
• Drafts — AI-drafted replies waiting for your review, plus scheduled sends in the queue
• Failed — sends that bounced (usually the mailbox auto-paused after this)

1. IMAP poller runs every 5 minutes on every mailbox that has IMAP credentials
2. New messages are fetched from the INBOX folder
3. Each message is dedupe-checked by RFC5322 Message-ID
4. The poller tries to link the reply to a lead:

• First: match the In-Reply-To header to an outbound message you sent
• Fallback: match the sender's email to a Lead.email in your workspace

1. On successful link:

• The lead auto-moves to the Replied column on the pipeline board
• Any active sequence for that lead auto-stops
• The AI writer runs over the reply with full thread context
• A DRAFT response lands in your inbox

The AI sees:

• The full lead context (company, decision maker, category, AI insight)
• Your original cold email (subject + body)
• The new inbound reply

It produces:

• A contextual draft response (40-120 words, warm tone, specific next step)
• Skips drafting entirely for hostile messages, unsubscribe requests, or out-of-office replies

Drafts land in the inbox with status DRAFT and an amber badge.

1. Click any DRAFT row → opens the conversation view at /inbox/[id]
2. Full editor on the left: To / CC / BCC / Subject / Body
3. Thread history on the right showing every prior message
4. Three actions:

• Save draft — save your edits without sending
• Send now — fires the SMTP dispatch, deletes the draft, creates a SENT row
• Delete draft — discard

A single wrong auto-reply to a real prospect can torch your sender domain's reputation for weeks. We deliberately keep you in the loop for every reply:

• 30 seconds of review per reply
• You catch the AI's mistakes (wrong tone, missing context, hallucinated claims)
• You personally take responsibility for what goes out

Auto-send can be added in a future sequence feature if you insist, but we don't recommend it until you've sent 1000+ replies manually and trust the AI's output quality for your vertical.

Draft or compose a message → set scheduledFor in the future → it lands in the QUEUED state with a blue SCHEDULED badge → the sequence worker picks it up at the scheduled time and fires the send. Useful for sending cold emails during the recipient's timezone business hours.

The top of the /inbox page shows every connected mailbox:

• Live send counter (sentToday/dailyLimit)
• Active/paused state
• Provider type
• One-click delete

If a mailbox auto-pauses (5 consecutive failures), you'll see a notification in the bell icon. Fix the credentials at /inbox/connect and reconnect.