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Pidgeon

Pidgeon gives AI agents programmatic email inboxes for sending, receiving and managing mail through an API.

What Pidgeon does

It gives an agent its own email inbox that the agent can create through code. Agents can read incoming mail, reply within the same thread, and pass the conversation to a person. Mail is hosted and processed in the EU.

Built for

  • Developers building AI agents
  • Founders

Key features

  • Inbox creation through a single API call
  • Threaded conversations kept together
  • Sending and receiving mail from code
  • Attachments sent and received with messages
  • Firewall screening of inbound messages
  • Scoped API keys
  • 90-day audit trail of events

Pros

Pros

  • Inbound messages are screened before the agent reads them.
  • Data is stored and processed in the EU.
  • Provides a free starting tier with three inboxes on a custom domain.

Where Pidgeon is listed

Pidgeon is listed under inbox management in Productivity and automation AI tools.

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