Local & private AI for email

Email triage, labeling, summaries and reply drafts where the model that reads your mail runs locally.

4 real examples, each linked to its original source.

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Read-only personal admin assistant over work email and calendar

A project manager juggling a dozen projects has a local bot that builds a wiki from email, surfaces to-dos, sends reminders and drafts replies.

Reddit r/LocalLLM · 2026-04-29

Self-hosted AI email assistant on Linux (n8n + Ollama)

Classifies IMAP mail with llama3.1:8b, routes it, saves reply drafts and extracts action items as JSON. Reports 85-95% classification accuracy.

Linux Professional · 2026-03-08

Email triage and morning digest with a local Ollama model (n8n)

Classifies each email as URGENT, REPLY_TODAY, FYI or JUNK using gemma4:e4b, sends urgent alerts and builds a grouped morning digest.

n8n templates

Auto-label Gmail and draft replies with a local model (n8n)

Sorts unread Gmail into six categories with Ollama, applies labels, drafts replies for urgent mail and logs everything to Sheets, with zero paid API costs.

n8n templates