? How do I connect Apple Mail to RadMail?
RadMail ships a local Apple Mail connector you run once on your Mac. It discovers every account already aggregated in Apple Mail, installs a small background watcher, and starts ingesting your inbox mail into RadMail over RadMail's API. There is no per-account OAuth, no forwarding rule, and no password to share — the connector reads Apple Mail's local store directly on your machine. It needs a RadMail account with write scope, and RadMail is pre-release, so this is early-access.
↳ tl;dr Run one command on your Mac; it connects every account Apple Mail already holds.
? Does the Apple Mail connector read my attachments or send anything?
No. The connector reads message metadata and normalized text only — attachment contents are never read, just noted. It is an ingest-only path: it moves mail into RadMail so RadMail can triage it, surface commitments, and draft replies for your review. It never sends on your behalf, and RadMail's BEC hard-stop is unchanged — money, new banking, and first contact stay human-only, forever.
↳ tl;dr Ingest-only, metadata + text (never attachment contents), and it cannot send.
? Is it safe to run the Apple Mail connector alongside a Gmail or Outlook connection?
Yes. The connector is Message-ID idempotent end to end, so if the same message arrives through both the Apple Mail connector and a server-side OAuth connector, RadMail recognizes it as one message and does not duplicate it. You can connect a Mac's local inboxes and cloud mailboxes at the same time.
↳ tl;dr Message-ID dedupe means no duplicates when it runs beside server-side connectors.
? Why connect Apple Mail instead of connecting each account separately?
Operators who live in email usually have seven or eight accounts already aggregated in Apple Mail on one Mac. Connecting them individually means seven or eight OAuth flows, forwarding rules, or shared passwords. One local connector covers all of them in a single command, because it reads the mail Apple Mail already collected — the easiest onboarding path for a multi-inbox operator on a Mac.
↳ tl;dr One command covers every inbox Apple Mail already aggregates — no per-account setup.
? What are the limits of the Apple Mail connector?
It is a Mac-side connector, so it inherits the Mac's sleep schedule — if the Mac is asleep, mail is picked up when it wakes. For inboxes where nothing can wait even minutes, connect that mailbox server-side as well. It currently needs Node and a RadMail account with write scope; a one-line installer for people without Node is a planned follow-up. RadMail is pre-release, with its engine live in a two-business test bed.
↳ tl;dr It follows the Mac's sleep schedule; pair 24/7-critical inboxes with a server-side connect.