Feature Ideas

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

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

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

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

Emoji reactions are useful for email because they make communication quicker and clearer. Why they are useful Save time: A 👍 or ✅ can replace a full reply. Reduce inbox clutter: Fewer short “Thanks” or “Seen” emails. Show tone: Emojis help show appreciation, agreement, or urgency. Encourage engagement: People are more likely to respond when it is easy. Match modern work habits: Similar to Teams or Slack, which many people already use. Why email providers should have them Email feels slow compared to chat tools. Reactions would modernise it. They support async work across time zones. They improve accessibility for quick feedback. They help teams acknowledge messages without interrupting workflow. In short, emoji reactions make email faster, lighter, and more human while keeping it professional when used well.

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

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.

Signing and encrypting e-mails using S/MIME is common practice in the business world. So in order to get useful in a business environment, an e-mail client should support S/MIME.

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.

SpamSieve is an easy to use and very good spam filter for AppleMail. With upcoming OS Sonoma there will be a SDK by the developer for integrating it in other mail clients. It will abolish the need running another mail client in background for spam filtering.

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.

I understand there is already an idea to sort by sender but grouping by sender would be much more efficient for achieving inbox zero. The idea being that you can swipe to delete all emails from that sender or you can tap on that sender to see all the emails from them and manage them one by one.

The “Deleting” banner at the bottom of the screen isn’t really necessary and blocks part of the email we read at the time. Can this deleting event simply occur in the background without showing us? It’s not really exciting to watch this banner.

Currently, using Copilot for Compose automatically appends a signature to every email it drafts, with no way to turn that off short of disabling Copilot entirely. This forces users to choose between AI-assisted composing and controlling their own signature. Adding a toggle (e.g., in Settings > Copilot > Copilot Signature) to suppress the auto-generated signature — while keeping Copilot itself active — would benefit anyone who wants AI help writing emails but prefers to manage their signature separately (or not use one at all).