E2a
Open-source email gateway for AI agents
Details
- External ID
- 48100227
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- E2a
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 48
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8352180936995154
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
We were building an agent system and wanted email as a trigger. We decided to take it out and made it a standalone service.The primary email features we wanted and used for our own agent system:1. Email threading stays consistent with agent conversation threading2. Human in the loop review for outbound emails (especially during testing phase)3. Quick onboarding/offboarding email addresses for agents within minutes4. Websocket for local agents and at-least-once webhook delivery for Cloud agentsNot yet: DMARC (only SPF/DKIM today), scoped API keys, HA/multi-region (single VM + single Postgres), app-layer email data encryption, compliance attestations (SOC 2/HIPAA).GitHub: https://github.com/Mnexa-AI/e2aHosted: https://e2a.dev/Appreciate any feedback / contributions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI email agents and deliverability
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- email gateway for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An email gateway that parses inbound webhooks (via SendGrid/Postmark/Mailgun), tracks thread headers (Message-ID/In-Reply-To), and forwards them to an agent system is straightforward CRUD and API integration.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: mcp_agent_mail - email-based multi-agent workflow coordination, nornweave - Inbox-as-a-Service for AI agents
Competitors
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Attention rank: #38 of 152 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 192 days after the earliest competitor.
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- AgentMailr · hn · 2026-03-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Agentboxd · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Cloudflare Email Service · ph · 2026-04-17 · 167 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- dearagent · github · 2026-09-11 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- AIMX · hn · 2026-05-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer · hn · 2026-03-26 · 340 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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- No other launches for this product.
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