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Mailman — A fix to "OMG, so many emails!"
📬 Mailman is an email assistant and Gmail plugin that shields you from unimportant emails — minimizing interruptions and making your days calmer and more productive.
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@awilkinson @mohitmamoria gmail plugins that fight each other. Please tell me Mailman does not contribute to that issue. Also with Mailman I assume you can still "snooze" a message right?
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m really excited to share a product born from my own personal hell…
My inbox used to be a dumpster fire — a never-ending nightmare that haunted my dreams, with hundreds of new emails streaming in 24/7. It was easily my #1 source of stress, and I tried tons of things to make it better: Cool new email apps, fancy workflows and systems, the works. Nothing worked.
An older friend told me how he used to manage paper mail: “You’d get a huge pile of mail once or twice a day. You’d respond to it, then get on with your day. No new mail until tomorrow morning the Mailman comes.”
I realized I was doing it wrong: In reality, very few emails need an immediate response, and most can wait 24–48 hours. Not everyone gets as many emails as me, but I know that lots of friends and colleagues struggle with the same email headaches.
So, I teamed up with @mohitmamoria and the team at Z1 (www.z1.digital) to build Mailman: It’s like a firewall for your inbox, making it calmer and freeing up time for you to be more focused and productive.
We’ve been testing it with a small group of beta testers for a few months now, and I’m happy to report that everyone is reporting calmer inboxes and less stress all round.
@mohitmamoria @awilkinson I love the idea, but I just can't accept adding an intermediary that can read my emails. It's already enough that Gmail can.
@awilkinson @bvirlet That's true, Bruno. We've been verified by Google themselves for our privacy and security practices. Happy to share the report with you.
And unlike other products (like unroll.me or Gmail itself), we do not monetize your data. We directly charge our users a monthly/annual fee to keep the lights on. :)
@awilkinson @mohitmamoria Thanks for you reply. I do trust that you are doing the right thinkg. Thanks for having a clean business model. It's more a personal, philosophical stand, I guess, and a balance to find between convenience and risk. The more intermediaries, the more people you need to trust, the more attack surface you expose, and I find this difficult.
@awilkinson @bvirlet That's fair enough, Bruno. I totally understand your stand and wouldn't force you to do anything that goes against your philosophical stand. :)
@mohitmamoria and @awilkinson are two of my favorite people on the internet. And I am excited to try out Mailman.
@awilkinson @abhash_kumar2 Hey Abhash, thank you so very much. Really means a lot to our tiny team building Mailman! You're one of the people I look up to for product/launches. 😻
Are there any plans to bring Mailman to other email providers? I’ve got one iCloud email account, and another generic IMAP
Had been using the beta of Mailman for a few days already, and I can definitely recommend it! Great product :)
Have been a beta user over the past 2 months and have really enjoyed the break it gives from the incoming pings.
There's a great onboarding flow and after a few days of working with the settings you get close to the optimum.
Well done Mailman team
sometimes you need to receive emails from emails you'll never email to (got it?;), e.g. login magic link, or email to validate a new account > how do you manage that?
After using Mailman for a couple of months I'm really loving the sanity I get from spending less time being pulled into my inbox.
I've tried tons of email apps, plugins, hacks, and workflows, but this is the first that's actually helped me take a proactive approach to email.
@aidanhornsby Man man man! You deserve a HUGE thank you for all the help and feedback you've offered during the early days. We wouldn't be here without you! :)
Very nice! What do you mean with multiple inboxes btw? Can you use more than one email? That would be perfect..!
@thisisjad Yes exactly. You can manage more than one inboxes with a single Mailman account. Most of our users have a personal and work inbox. :)
I'll support any product that maximizes my productivity and work schedule. Mailman + Superman is a perfect combo to do just that. Thanks, @awilkinson and @mohitmamoria!
@awilkinson @dfanton Two superheroes trying to save the day! Thank you so much for your kind words, Darren. :) Really means a lot.
After Superhuman, Mailman is the best new app in my productivity stack. I’ve only been using it for a week and it has already changed how I do email. Knowing when batches are coming helps create a mental shift to completely move focus to more proactive tasks. How about a security tie-up with Jumbo?
@peterbrack Thank you for the kind words, Peter. Never heard of Jumbo. Right now, we get annually audited by NCC Group for our security and privacy. I'll definitely checkout Jumbo for sure. :)
I'm one of the earlier users of Mailman and it's been a big upgrade to my email workflow. I’ve tried a ton of different email apps, plugins, hacks, etc to manage my inbox over the years. This brings together a few useful tools to help make triaging email in batches a lot easier.
It took a few days to test different delivery winows, set VIPs, and tune my screening settings, but now I’m spending a lot less time being pulled into email.
@alexheeton Hey Alex, really really grateful to have you onboard! <3 Yes, it could take a few days initially to get used to the email workflow.
Glad you stuck around! <3
Mailmain is a real life saver thus far. I get my email batched 3x per day, and I'm already finding that it's giving me a boost in focus
@daniellemlovell So cool, Danielle! Glad that you're enjoying your time with Mailman. Thank you for jumping in the launch party. :) 🎉
Been using the beta of Mailman for a fair bit here. It’s been great to pace my day and give me solid blocks of time to focus on deep work!
@jesseherlitz You've been a HUGE HUGE HUGE support to Mailman since the inception, Jesse. 🤗 Thank you so much for the support and love.
This fills the unroll.me hole in my life and I love it for it. As a beta user, subscribing to the annual plan was a no-brainer.
@screenshake (first of all, love your username "screenshake")... Thank you so much, Saransh, for the kind words your support during out beta phase. We wouldn't be here without support of early users like yourself. 🤗🤗🤗🤗
I love the idea behind getting your e-mail on a fixed schedule. By doing so, Mailman instantly gives you way more control over your time and focus.
What's even more important is that Mailman is perfectly executed, and easy to set up. It takes a few days to show its true potential, though. Once you have screened most of your regular incoming e-mails, it really starts to shine.
@pieterbeulque You've touched a very important point, Pieter. The first few days is crucial as Mailman doesn't understand your preferences right out of the gate. I am so glad you chose to stuck around through those first few days and see the true potential of Mailman. So excited to have you onboard. :) Thank you for spreading the support and joining us in the party.
Mailman has been a GODSEND for my inbox – so much quieter, more focused, and organized than ever. I'm a user for life.
@mattvaru Hey Matthew, so stoked to have you join the journey with us. :)
I am using Mailman for the last 2 days. Mailman is really an awesome tool. Being a founder is really very hard to check all of your emails every time and they're only a few important emails we need to reply.
Would be awesome if we can connect Streak pipeline with Mailman so that we don't need to whitelist the domains/emails manually.
Great work @mohitmamoria
@yeshu_agarwal That's a great suggestion, Yeshu. After our chat yesterday, I have added it to our roadmap. And once the launch fever is down, we'll add a date to it. :)
Really glad to have you onboard.
I'm a late early adopter of Mailman - and given the parlous state of my email management over several years, I'm in a long-ramp to readiness. But even after a few days of training I can see a couple good benefits
- My inbox is more manageable thanks to a new noise filter pass before I see things to deal with. Even in the training screens I am triaging a bit faster.
- For some reasons, I've been bad at doing chunked email time - having this set on the filtering side has been a big help.
Are there areas to be better at for the product, not just me? Sure. We're early adopters and know that comes with the territory (and I will be sharing with the Mailman team once I can put context around them). But the immediate benefits are there also, and that's what I'm willing to pay for.
@esinclai Hey Eric. So happy to hear about your experience. For any detailed feedback that you might have for us, you can directly email me at mohit at mailmanhq dot com.
I'll be most the happy to understand your context and improve the product. Thank you really for taking out time to join the conversation. :)
I used it for a few months and highly enjoyed it. When it went away my inbox was flooded again by stupid newsletters and political emails asking for donations. Need to reinstall!
@andrew_case1 We'd be thrilled to have you aboard again, Andrew. If there's any hurdle, let's chat on email and get you setup again. :) Thank you for the love you've shown on PH <3
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