Feature Ideas

Right now, we can do basic actions (delete, spam, …). I’d love to be able to combine them in custom actions like : "mark as read and archive". When you receive a lot of messages, this is a great time saver.

Currently when attaching an image inline, its aspect ratio is altered in order to fill the screen. This really shouldn't happen in my opinion as it skews the image, making it appear quite odd. As best I can tell, there's no way to avoid it. I realize there's another request to manually adjust the image size, which is one potential way of dealing with the issue. This request instead addresses the underlying problem. I will trust the developers to come up with the best way to fix it!

It would be helpful to have the text in the reading window auto wrap when the window is either resized or when the zoom level is changed in lieu of having to use the horizontal scroll bar to read emails.

Currently when attaching an image to an email, the image takes up the full width of the email email, often resulting in massive pictures, particularly on portrait format pictures. It would be nice to have the option to change the size of the image.

Sorting emails by sender is, own my opinion, a basic function of every email client. It helps to sort through emails quickly and clear unwanted emails or move them to folders. I find it amazing that Canary Mail does not have this feature. It is also noted that Canary Mail's own website promotes sorting emails by sender (https://canarymail.io/blog/manage-and-organize-emails/): 'Group by the sender: Another way to organize your inbox is by grouping messages from specific senders together. This can be particularly useful if you work with a lot of different people and want to quickly find messages from a particular colleague or client.' So, why is this function not there?

It is easy to translate outgoing emails, but there is no option to translate incoming ones. Can you add this function?

Many service provider (including EM Client, Super Human & Outlook) have this feature of creating direct meeting link from calendar. Please integrate the same.

It would be easier to identify unread emails in the inbox if they were highlighted rather than indicated by just a blue dot.

Canary's built-in copilot is useful, but it only sees Canary. My work doesn't live in Canary. It lives in a CRM, a database, project docs, spreadsheets, internal scripts, and a set of AI agents I've already built around them. An assistant that can read my mail but nothing else is answering half the question, and an assistant that knows everything except my mail has the same problem in reverse. That gap isn't a feature gap, it's an architecture gap. No mail client is going to integrate my stack for me, and I don't want it to. What I need is an entry point: a standard interface that lets whatever assistant or agent I use reach the mail, alongside everything else it already reaches. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is that interface. It's an open, vendor-neutral standard, already supported by the major assistants and by custom agents, local models included. Canary shipping an MCP server means one implementation on your side and compatibility with the entire ecosystem, present and future, rather than one integration per vendor. The key point: Canary already holds the decrypted mail locally. An MCP server runs locally too. The mail is read on the machine, by a client I chose, without shipping the mailbox to anyone's cloud. That is strictly more private than most of the alternatives people fall back on today, which is pasting mail into a web chat. Read access first, that alone unlocks most of the value: search_messages (query, sender, date range, folder, attachments)get_message / get_thread (headers, body, attachment list)list_accounts / list_folders / list_labelsget_unread_summary Write access as an optional, opt-in second stage: create_draft (drafts only, never send)mark_read / archive / move / label Controls that make this safe to ship: Disabled by default, enabled per accountExplicit scope: read-only vs read + draftNo send capability over MCP, ever. Drafts get reviewed in CanaryPer-account, per-folder and per-sender exclusionsA visible activity log of what was read and what was done What this makes possible, none of which an in-app copilot can do: Cross-reference an incoming thread against the deal record in the CRMPull figures out of supplier emails and reconcile them against the accounting dataFeed mail context into an existing internal agent or reporting pipelineAnswer "what did we commit to this client, and where does the project actually stand" using mail plus the systems that hold the real state Canary is already the mail client for people who care about privacy and want AI to be genuinely useful. MCP is how you serve the users whose data gravity sits outside your app, without becoming an integration platform yourself. The internal copilot stays the easy default. MCP is the door for everyone whose work is bigger than their inbox.

An MCP server that enables the use of Claude MacOS desktop app in conjunction with Canary.

Please add "✓ Read" in the correspondence window next to each email address (To: - Cc: - Bcc: ) separately.

Showing account colours only adds a very thin bar the the side of the email in the inbox. It doesn’t really help that much. I’d like to see this bar a bit bigger and in the left hand side next to the avatar to increase visibility.

Please provide us with an option to search only by folder. Example: If I want to search the sent box only for email xxx@gmail.com, I should be able to do that. As of now, we cannot do it as it is pulling results from all emails and all folders.

You can set it up for mails with the condition that only sends you a reminder if they dont replay or send a reminder even if they replay

Out of office replies would be very useful when OOO. This is an important feature for those using Canary for work.