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Will it be possible to create a 'allow/disallow list'? I have been dreaming of an inbox where I can block all incoming emails by default. A separate page shows tags of incoming domains and people (highlighting how much you have communicated with them previously). Then I can whitelist whose communication I actually want to see in my inbox.

Looking at the docs this isnt possible so far but happy to be corrected. Great product and also very nice of you to OSS it.

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Yeah this would be a cool product. You'd have to use both the InboxSDK to build your UI in Gmail as well as using the Gmail API (https://developers.google.com/gmail/api) to make sure new incoming emails are correctly sorted by your rules.

I imagine you know this already, but hey.com has this as a key feature.

I've even seen an article or two about how to get Fastmail to do something similar, which I imagine would work for Gmail too, e.g. https://www.joshuawood.net/make-fastmail-work-like-hey

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