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?

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

To divided mails at the top the mail box, and pins and seen, it’s easy to check the mails, also show the numbers of the inbox and pins each at the bottom of the mail, please refer to Spark.

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

Group all unread mails at the top of the app.

For some reason there's no "Unsubscribe" option in the "Messages" menu for Canary. (See "Canary Messages Menu" screenshot attached) Also, under Settings > General > Shortcuts there is no option to set a shortcut for "Unsubscribe" (See "Canary Settings - Shortcuts" screenshot attached) Please add this feature as it will make it so much quicker/easier to Unsubscribe. When I'm working through emails, I have the "E" key set to "Archive" and the "W" key set to "Delete" and I would like to just as easily hit a key with my left hand, instead of having to use the trackpad/mouse to go click the triple dot menu, and then hit the "Unsubscribe" link.

Would be awesome if templates could have Variables where it can pull from data like a contact name or email so if you made a template like this Hi {FirstName} Would love to connect here is my calendar {Calendly Link} {Signature}

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.

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.

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.

When you get a response from AI, it disappears as soon as you do an email search or something like that. So you should be able to go back to history to see the responses and the questions posed to generate the responses, so it can be repeated or recalled.

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

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