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. It always saves a draft for your review and never sends on its own. Ask it to revise a draft and it will.
Take action
- "Archive everything from this sender."
- "Star this and mark it read."
- "Snooze this until tomorrow morning."
- "Create a task to follow up next week."
- "Make a rule that labels invoices and archives them."
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 riskier ones ask first. Trashing mail and marking as spam pop up an approve/deny card before anything happens. Creating a rule shows a card too, laying out the conditions and actions so you can check them before it's saved.
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 or reply, revise a saved draft |
| Automate | create a rule (with your approval) |
| 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.