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Where Maze is going.

Maze is built in milestones. Reading, writing and agents are in; what's left on the way to a daily driver is filling them out: drafts on the server, send later, rules, notifications and a settings window. No dates, just order. The design decisions are onGitHub.

  • Done
  • In progress
  • Later

  1. Foundations

    Done

    The workspace, CI, the release process and an updater that works from the very first release.

    • Signed and notarized macOS builds, .dmg and Linux tarball for every release
    • Background updates with Restart to update, signed manifests and rollback
    • Release notes and versions from conventional commits (release-please)

  2. Data layer

    Done

    One local store for all your mail, encrypted from the first commit.

    • SQLCipher database, encrypted message files and an encrypted Tantivy search index
    • Threading, a sanitizing MIME parser and the reader model
    • Measured at 1M messages with encryption on

  3. Sync

    Done

    Accounts, live sync and sending.

    • IMAP, Gmail and Microsoft 365 accounts, password or browser sign-in, Test Connection
    • CONDSTORE/QRESYNC delta sync, IDLE and Gmail labels
    • SMTP sending, the outbox and the send log, so nothing is sent twice

  4. Reading UI

    In progress

    The Thunderbird layout, rendered by GPUI, with Zed's tabs and splits.

    • Folder pane with Favorites and special folders first, message list as cards or a table, reader view
    • Original HTML view (Servo, no scripts, remote images only when you allow them; macOS)
    • Tabs and splits for mail views, messages and drafts, restored after a restart
    • Quick Filter, global search, command palette, Thunderbird shortcuts
    • Sort by any column, multi-select, Quick Move and right-click menus
    • Archive, move, delete, tag, flag and mark read, with undo
    • DKIM, SPF and DMARC results, the sender's mail client, link previews and safe link opening
    • settings.json in a tab, Zed themes
    • A settings window, showing the recovery key
    • Notifications for new mail
    • Find, keyboard scrolling and printing in the original view

  5. Thunderbird import

    Done

    Move over without losing anything, and keep Thunderbird running alongside.

    • Thunderbird profiles: IMAP accounts, identities, signatures, tags, saved searches, address books
    • mbox and Maildir import into an IMAP folder, and export back to mbox or Maildir
    • Filters are imported and kept, disabled, until rules arrive

  6. Writing mail

    In progress

    The second half of an email client: the basics are in.

    • Compose, reply and forward in tabs, written in Markdown, sent as plain text and HTML
    • From picks the identity; replies pick the one the message was sent to
    • A copy in Sent, a footer and an optional "Sent with Maze" line
    • Drafts in the server's Drafts folder, forwarding attachments
    • Send later and undo send
    • Address book autocomplete, spell check, pre-send checks
    • Signatures that switch with the identity
    • Filter rules, including your imported Thunderbird filters
    • Maze as the system's mailto: handler

  7. Agents

    In progress

    Agents propose, you review, in the CLI and in Maze's own agent column.

    • The mazemail CLI with scoped tokens, profiles and approvals
    • Headless mode, and a generated CLI reference for agents
    • The agent column: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, pi and your own agents over ACP
    • Sign-in from the column, mode, model and thinking pickers, updates in the background
    • Reviewing and applying proposals in Maze
    • An agent sandbox that can't read the store or your home folder (Seatbelt on macOS, bubblewrap on Linux)
    • Limiting agents to certain network hosts, and the seccomp filter on Linux
    • A built-in assistant: summaries, smart replies, inline writing help

  8. Stable release

    Later

    Hardening for the first stable channel release.

    • Opt-in crash reports
    • Storage key rotation
    • Linux packaging polish (Flatpak), and the original HTML view on Linux

  9. After that

    Later

    Ideas with a plan, not a date.

    • Related mail and search by meaning, computed locally
    • WebAssembly extensions with explicit capabilities
    • JMAP and Microsoft Graph, Windows

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