Help!
Get the most out of HardMail AI, read all of the following:
- HardMail AI is a typical email client with features to send and receive email,
including attachment support. It also has the ability to
manually or automatically process email with AI,
which is a huge time saver. Most email is overly verbose and AI can fix that
- HardMail AI has been tested with Gmail, Outlook/Live/Hotmail (personal only), AOL, and Yahoo.
Other email providers can be manually configured.
Support for Outlook for business accounts probably not going to happen the very near future
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HardMail AI makes heavy use of pop-up tooltips for help, hower the mouse over
various elements and see
- Use of AI requires you have an OpenAI API account, see Settings within the program or go to
https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys
- Multiple recipients: separate email address with a comma,
or use the address book and use names
- How to send attachment(s): during Compose use Ctrl-a to add an attachment
- Received attachment(s) are automatically saved to your Downloads folder
- More detailed help here
Hidden Features
Accessed via keyboard shortcuts:
- While viewing an email hit Ctrl-o to open the email in a separate window
- While viewing an email hit Alt-t to see the text version of the email
- While viewing a text version of an email hit Alt-h to go back to the html version
- In the general email list use Ctrl-l to view the program log file
Encryption
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Encryption requires both parties use HardMail AI.
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Before encryption is enabled both parties must sent an email to each other.
This is ensure that both parties have the others public key.
The HardMail AI signature is required to communicate the public key (at least the first time)
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Once the above requirements are met encryption is automatic.
Check your email providers web interface to see what encrypted email looks like
- Encryption can be enabled/disabled for each account (see Settings)
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HardMail AI is not open source but the encryption code can be
viewed here
Note seeing the code does not make it any less secure (it's all in the math)
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Currently only email sent to a single person is encrypted. A future version will support multiple recipients.
Attachments are not encrypted; the subject line is encrypted
Future
- Support other AI services such Claude.ai and self hosted
- Support for POP servers, if anyone is still using those
- AI prompt editing per email
- Font and color selections
- Organizing emails into groups
- Other stuff to be determined
Links
Website
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Frequently Asked Questions
Terms of use
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