# Mail

Read your inbox, write drafts and send mail.

![The Mail mini app, with the inbox and a thread](https://asist-agent.com/screens/en/mail.webp)

How to connect a mail account is covered in [Connecting your mail](https://asist-agent.com/en/docs/start/mail/).

## From the conversation

Ask "Do I have any unread mail?" for a list card, or "Read it" for a card with one message, and ASIST tells you the main points. "Find the email about …" searches the subjects, the senders and the message text.

**When you ask ASIST to send or reply in the conversation, it doesn't send anything; it shows a draft card instead.** You can fix the recipients, the subject and the text on the card, or ask for something like "Make it a bit more polite" to have it rewritten. The message is sent when you click "Send". If what the card showed was changed after that, ASIST doesn't send it; check what it says now and click again. For a reply, the card shows the addresses it goes to, Cc included. When the original message names a Reply-To address, the reply goes to that address rather than to the sender. Only the text of a reply can be changed. Archiving, moving to the trash, marking as read and starring happen after you approve them on a confirmation screen. If sending fails in a way that leaves it unclear whether the message went out, ASIST doesn't send it again and asks you to check the Sent folder. A draft whose sending has started can't be sent again, even when it couldn't be removed after it went out or ASIST quit in the middle of sending. Check the Sent folder, then discard it.

## From the Dock

Under "Mail" in the Dock, you see the mail of all your accounts together, sorted by date, and you can search, view threads, reply, compose and save drafts. Sending from the screen happens when you click "Send". The reply form also shows the addresses the reply goes to, Cc included. A reply to a message you sent goes to the people you sent it to, also when you sent it from one of the [other addresses you send from](https://asist-agent.com/en/docs/start/mail/#if-you-also-send-from-other-addresses). If you close a new message or a reply you have started, or move to another message or box, ASIST asks before it discards it ("Discard changes"). A new message can be kept with "Save as draft". Changes to a draft are saved when you close it, too; when an address that can't be read keeps them from being saved, ASIST asks before it closes. Moving to the trash goes through the same confirmation screen as in the conversation. The number in the Dock is the count of unread messages that arrived in the last 24 hours.