Feature Ideas

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?

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.

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

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.

Add “Forward as Attachment” to Canary Mail to send emails as .eml files, preserving full headers, formatting, and metadata. Essential for professionals who need the original message intact—support teams troubleshooting issues, legal teams keeping records, or security teams analyzing phishing. A one-click option in the forward menu should attach one or multiple emails exactly as received. Best use case: sending a suspicious email to IT for analysis without alteration.

I often find myself needing to create an event and having to manually copy some of the context of an email to the notes of the event or to attach the same attachments as the received email has. Let’s say I bought movie tickets for my family and would like to create a family event in a shared calendar with the time, place and PDFs of the tickets in the calendar event attachments. It would be awesome to auto-magically glean the time, place, duration of the event from the context of the email, but most of all i would love not to have to download the attachments only to attach them to the calendar event.

We are working with goverment, they are often asking for messages in eml or msg file format to prove originality of mail.

It would be nice to be able to disable the integrated calendar to instead use the system default calendar.

To help combat phishing, I would like to have full email address visible all the time, not just the "friendly name". It's too easy to be lulled into a sense of security without seeing the full email address.

Groups are a super efficient way to send mail to regular groups of people, teams, family, etc.

Add a “Today” and some kind of go-to-date function within the sidebar version of the calendar so you don’t have to open the calendar full screen to navigate back to today or a specific other date.

I’m currently using Canary Mail version 5.19.0 and wanted to share some feedback regarding the AI Copilot functionality, specifically around handling email attachments. At the moment, Copilot appears unable to access or process attached files (such as Word documents (.doc, .docx), Excel spreadsheets (.xls, .xlsx, .csv), or presentations (.ppt, .pptx, .pdf)). For example, when I prompted: “Summarize in 1 sentence as much as possible each PDF attached”“Summarize in 300 characters as much as possible each PDF attached” The response I received was: “The email does not provide the content or details of the attached PDFs, so I cannot summarize them.” When I followed up with: “Can you see and read the 2 PDFs attached?” Copilot replied: “I cannot see or read the PDFs attached to the email. I only have access to the email text content.” This significantly limits the usefulness of the AI assistant, especially in professional workflows where attachments often contain the most important information. I would strongly encourage your team to prioritize enabling Copilot to access and intelligently process attachments. This would be a major value-add and a clear differentiator for Canary Mail. This capability would be especially useful for professionals across multiple domains, including business users reviewing reports and presentations, executives needing quick summaries and insights, consultants and analysts working with large documents, and teams in legal, finance, and operations handling document-heavy workflows. Here are some high-impact use cases that would greatly improve the user experience: Summarize attached PDFs, DOCX files, and PPT presentations (short, medium, or detailed formats)Extract key insights, action items, or decisions from meeting decks or reportsCompare multiple attachments and highlight similarities, differences, or contradictionsAnswer questions based on attachment content (e.g., “What are the main risks outlined in this document?”)Generate replies or drafts based on both email text and attachment contextTranslate documents or summarize them in another languageConvert long documents into structured outputs (bullet points, executive summaries, checklists) Ideally, this should work seamlessly, where Copilot can automatically detect and include attachment content as part of its analysis when prompted, unless specified otherwise. This capability is becoming standard in modern AI-assisted email and productivity tools, and integrating it into Canary Mail would significantly enhance its power and usability. I appreciate the great work your team has done so far and hope this feature can be considered in an upcoming update. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Prevents getting repeated emails that aren't needed