10 sorted today
Today's batch — live
10 messages captured, 1 chutes in use
Every message below already ran the manifest below it, in order. The red stamp is the keyword that caught it — no stamp means it fell all the way through to the catch-all.
Chute
Unsorted
Priya Nair
Invoice #4471 is overdue
Marcus Webb
URGENT: order stuck at customs
Dana Ferris
Question about a refund
Support Desk — Kestrel
Re: login keeps failing
Owen Castillo
Exploring a partnership
Renée Aoki
Shipping delay on pallet #2291
Sasha Kim
Invoice attached — August services
No Reply — Peaklight CRM
Your weekly usage digest
Tomás Rivera
Can we talk shipping rates?
Lena Brooks
Urgent — press asking about the outage
The manifest
First keyword that matches wins the message — everything below it is skipped. Reorder by retiring and re-adding; a rule you switch off keeps its place but stops catching mail.
Rule manifest
7 rules, checked top to bottom
One message, traced
First-match-wins is not a promise in the docs — it is what happens to every message, in the same order, every time. Here is one real one.
Invoice #4471 is overdue
Just following up — invoice 4471 for the March retainer hasn't been paid yet. Could someone in billing confirm?
No rule matched — not a black hole
Unsorted
Sources
Every crate asks for exactly what it needs to read your mail — nothing is ever sent or deleted through Relay Manifest.
Crate 01 — Gmail
Not connectedGMAIL
Asks to read and file mail in the account you connect — nothing is ever sent from it.
Crate 02 — Outlook
Not connectedOUTLOOK
Asks to read and move mail between folders in the account you connect.
Crate 03 — IMAP
ConnectedPLAIN IMAP
Asks for read-only mailbox access — this app never deletes or sends through it.
[email protected]@IMAP.forwardemail.net:993
Volume ledger
A solo inbox and a twelve-person shared one, checked against the same manifest engine.
| Metric | Solo inbox | Shared inbox (12 people) |
|---|---|---|
| Messages per day | ≈ 40 | ≈ 610 |
| Rules needed to sort cleanly | 4–6 | 18–25 |
| Average time to route | under 1 second | under 1 second |
| Messages a person re-files by hand | 2–3 / day | 0 / day |