Email, sorted for real
Tidy your inbox once. See it stay tidy everywhere.
InboxQ is the brain that classifies your mail and physically files it into real folders in your mailbox, so the tidiness shows in Apple Mail, webmail, every client. Sort and train once in Quox, then live in your own inbox. Read-only on connect, self-hosted, and free to classify by default.
In plain words
What it is, where it lives, when to reach for it
- What is it
- A self-hosted email plugin that classifies your mail and files it into real folders.
- Where do I use it
- In the InboxQ tab of your Quox dashboard, once a mailbox is connected.
- When would I use it
- When your inbox is a mess and you want it tidy in every mail app.
- How do I use it
- Connect a mailbox read-only, review the sorting, then turn on filing to real folders.
The problem
Inbox tools tidy inside their own app. Your mailbox stays a mess.
Filters, smart folders and AI triage nearly all live inside one web app. Open your normal mail client and the chaos is right back, because nothing actually moved on the server. And the spam never stops: block one address and the same sender is back tomorrow under a new one.
InboxQ sorts the real mailbox, learns the sender not the address, and proves every move.
Rules and folders that live only inside one web app
Real IMAP folders, so the tidy shows in Apple Mail, webmail, every client
Spam whack-a-mole, one address at a time
It learns the sender and screens the next message automatically
An AI inbox that reads your mail in someone else’s cloud
Self-hosted and org-scoped; the classifier runs free and on your box
“Trust the tidy”
Every action is hashed into an AEE evidence envelope you can audit
Blows through your inbox the moment you connect
Read-only on connect; nothing is moved until you turn it on
What it does · shipped
Six things InboxQ does, one tidy mailbox.
IMAP = the standard mail protocol your client already speaks. PEEK = a read that leaves the message untouched on the server. AEE = Quox’s evidence envelope, the signed record of an action.
Tidy once. Stays tidy everywhere.
Most inbox tools sort mail inside their own app, so the moment you open Apple Mail or webmail the mess is back. InboxQ physically files mail into real IMAP folders under one nested "InboxQ/" parent, so the tidiness follows you into every client. Delete the parent folder and it is all undone.
A classifier that costs nothing.
Mail is sorted into Focus, FYI, Auto and Screened by a deterministic rules classifier that makes zero network calls and costs nothing by default. If you want a language model to break the hard ties, you pick the model and it runs on a budget you set. The default is free and stays free.
It learns your spammers.
Block a sender once and InboxQ remembers: the next message from them is screened on sight. A rules engine generalises the pattern, matching on address, domain, top-level domain, display name or subject, so the "Investor Brokers" that shows up under a fresh address each week gets caught by the name, not the address.
Safe by default, at every step.
Connecting a mailbox pulls read-only, with PEEK, changing nothing on the server. Filing is off until you switch it on, and when you do, a dry-run preview shows exactly what would move where before a single message is touched. Screened mail lands in a review folder, not straight in Junk, so a false positive is recoverable.
Phishing signals you can actually see.
Every message is read for SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment, display-name spoofing and lookalike or punycode domains, and the findings show as plain badges on the reader. The HTML is sanitised and remote content is blocked by default, so opening a message cannot phone home. Read-only signals: nothing is auto-quarantined behind your back.
An inbox agent that proposes, never acts.
Ask the InboxQ agent to find, sort, file or block, and it answers from the org-scoped store. Every action it takes is an approve-first proposal: a bulk "move all of these" becomes one frozen approval, and the tool returns "proposal created, not executed" until a human says yes. It cannot move or block anything on its own.
The product, not a mockup
Real captures, from the running dashboard
InboxQ is shipped and running. These slots are held open honestly until real captures are taken from the live instance, rather than filled with a mockup.
The moat
An inbox filter is copyable in a weekend. InboxQ is built on the Quox evidence stack, so it files into your real mailbox, runs self-hosted and org-scoped, classifies for free by default, and hashes every move into an audit envelope you can verify yourself.
Pricing
One-time, self-hosted. Free to run.
InboxQ is a one-time purchase plugin for your self-hosted Quox. There is no per-seat subscription and no per-message fee: the classifier runs on your own box and costs nothing by default. The only paid path is optional, a language model you choose for hard tie-breaks, on a budget you set.
Pricing is indicative and under review while InboxQ settles in on real mailboxes. The buy flow is not live yet; today InboxQ installs from the store into your dashboard.
What is planned · kept honest
Shipped and planned, kept separate.
Everything above ships in InboxQ today. These three are not done, and they are labelled that way rather than shown as finished.
IN DEVELOPMENTExportable blocklist: email, domain and IP
Blocking today teaches InboxQ to screen future mail from a sender, and best-effort moves it to Junk. In development is a one-file export of your accumulated blocklist (address, domain and the connecting server IP parsed from the Received chain) as a CSV you take to your own provider’s block or filter settings. IP is one weak column of three, never a silver bullet, and it is labelled as such.
PLANNEDProvider-side auto-block
Push a real server-side rule to your provider (Sieve / ManageSieve, Gmail filters, Microsoft 365), so a block becomes an actual mail-server rule, not just a Quox-side screen. Export comes first; the automated push is planned.
PLANNEDCompose, reply and send, under approval
InboxQ sorts; you still read and reply in your own client. Drafting and sending from InboxQ itself, behind the same human approval gate every other action uses, is planned for later.
InboxQ
Sort your mailbox once. Live in your own inbox.
Self-hosted, read-only on connect, free to classify by default.