📬 Mailman is an email assistant and Gmail plugin that shields you from unimportant emails — minimizing interruptions and making your days calmer and more productive.
I’ve been using Mailman for about a month. It’s helped me develop better habits regarding my email. By batch processing emails, I’m more productive throughout the day.
I get deliveries 4 times each day. So, this keeps me out my inbox most of the day, and all evening long.
My VIPs (coworkers, family, etc) skip the queue. So, I’m not worried about long delays for important messages.
Mailman is a game-changer.
I love the idea behind getting your e-mail on a fixed schedule. By doing so, Mailman instantly gives you way more control over your time and focus.
What's even more important is that Mailman is perfectly executed, and easy to set up. It takes a few days to show its true potential, though. Once you have screened most of your regular incoming e-mails, it really starts to shine.
@pieterbeulque You've touched a very important point, Pieter. The first few days is crucial as Mailman doesn't understand your preferences right out of the gate. I am so glad you chose to stuck around through those first few days and see the true potential of Mailman. So excited to have you onboard. :) Thank you for spreading the support and joining us in the party.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m really excited to share a product born from my own personal hell…
My inbox used to be a dumpster fire — a never-ending nightmare that haunted my dreams, with hundreds of new emails streaming in 24/7. It was easily my #1 source of stress, and I tried tons of things to make it better: Cool new email apps, fancy workflows and systems, the works. Nothing worked.
An older friend told me how he used to manage paper mail: “You’d get a huge pile of mail once or twice a day. You’d respond to it, then get on with your day. No new mail until tomorrow morning the Mailman comes.”
I realized I was doing it wrong: In reality, very few emails need an immediate response, and most can wait 24–48 hours. Not everyone gets as many emails as me, but I know that lots of friends and colleagues struggle with the same email headaches.
So, I teamed up with @mohitmamoria and the team at Z1 (www.z1.digital) to build Mailman: It’s like a firewall for your inbox, making it calmer and freeing up time for you to be more focused and productive.
We’ve been testing it with a small group of beta testers for a few months now, and I’m happy to report that everyone is reporting calmer inboxes and less stress all round.
@awilkinson@bvirlet That's true, Bruno. We've been verified by Google themselves for our privacy and security practices. Happy to share the report with you.
And unlike other products (like unroll.me or Gmail itself), we do not monetize your data. We directly charge our users a monthly/annual fee to keep the lights on. :)
@awilkinson@mohitmamoria Thanks for you reply. I do trust that you are doing the right thinkg. Thanks for having a clean business model. It's more a personal, philosophical stand, I guess, and a balance to find between convenience and risk. The more intermediaries, the more people you need to trust, the more attack surface you expose, and I find this difficult.
@awilkinson@bvirlet That's fair enough, Bruno. I totally understand your stand and wouldn't force you to do anything that goes against your philosophical stand. :)
✌️ Hey Hey Hey 😻 Product Hunters!
As @awilkinson shared, we built 📬 Mailman for anyone who finds themselves getting constantly pulled into email and generally struggling to manage their inbox.
So how does Mailman work? It’s simple:
☝️ Batch email delivery
Instead of constantly getting new emails, Mailman can deliver them every few hours to let you focus. Set Mailman to deliver your email at hourly intervals, a set number of times per day, or at specific times. Figure out what works best for you, then get back to the important stuff.
✌️ Set VIPs so truly important emails are delivered immediately
Add important senders, domains, or keywords to the VIP list, and they'll bypass our filters to ensure that you immediately see the things you need to.
🤟 Screen email from new senders to block distractions
Mailman blocks any emails from senders you haven't emailed with before, plus annoying newsletters, notifications, and other distractions. Once a day, Mailman sends you a digest that shows all the emails Mailman blocked, and you can choose how you want each sender treated in the future.
💌 Works with your favorite email app
Unlike email apps like Hey, Mailman plugs straight into Gmail, so you don’t need to switch email apps and risk losing features you depend on.
🎉 Product Hunt Launch Special Offer
This wouldn’t be a launch if we didn’t have something special to offer you folks: Use the code PRODUCTHUNT at checkout to get a 15% discount on your first year on the annual plan. On top of this, ALL NEW ACCOUNTS TODAY get a 45-day trial period (vs 21-day).
So, please take Mailman for a spin and let us know what you think! Your feedback and ideas are key to helping us shape the product roadmap.
😎 I am here for the next 24 hours answering all the questions that you might have.
I’d love to know: What’s your #1 biggest email headache?
@awilkinson@mohitmamoria gmail plugins that fight each other. Please tell me Mailman does not contribute to that issue. Also with Mailman I assume you can still "snooze" a message right?
I'm a late early adopter of Mailman - and given the parlous state of my email management over several years, I'm in a long-ramp to readiness. But even after a few days of training I can see a couple good benefits
- My inbox is more manageable thanks to a new noise filter pass before I see things to deal with. Even in the training screens I am triaging a bit faster.
- For some reasons, I've been bad at doing chunked email time - having this set on the filtering side has been a big help.
Are there areas to be better at for the product, not just me? Sure. We're early adopters and know that comes with the territory (and I will be sharing with the Mailman team once I can put context around them). But the immediate benefits are there also, and that's what I'm willing to pay for.
@esinclai Hey Eric. So happy to hear about your experience. For any detailed feedback that you might have for us, you can directly email me at mohit at mailmanhq dot com.
I'll be most the happy to understand your context and improve the product. Thank you really for taking out time to join the conversation. :)
@ch9may While building Mailman, I realized, email is here to stay. It just need proper treatment for each use-case that it is used for. 🚀
Thank you so much for your support, man!
I love how email has come into focus all over again recently. But unlike all the other services that require a huge behaviour shift or using a new email provider itself, I really like how Mailman sits on top of Gmail and acting as a watchman (read Mailman) to let only select emails pass or let them in at dedicated time slots.
Have been using Mailman since the early days and it definitely makes using emails an enjoyable experience rather than a chore! Really liking the new features being added and can't wait to see what else is in the pipeline..
@nitanshr Hey man. You're our user #12. And that's huge support and belief from you. We would love to always improve upon the product so that Mailman slowly becomes invisible from your life altogether. :)
@screenshake (first of all, love your username "screenshake")... Thank you so much, Saransh, for the kind words your support during out beta phase. We wouldn't be here without support of early users like yourself. 🤗🤗🤗🤗
After Superhuman, Mailman is the best new app in my productivity stack. I’ve only been using it for a week and it has already changed how I do email. Knowing when batches are coming helps create a mental shift to completely move focus to more proactive tasks. How about a security tie-up with Jumbo?
@peterbrack Thank you for the kind words, Peter. Never heard of Jumbo. Right now, we get annually audited by NCC Group for our security and privacy. I'll definitely checkout Jumbo for sure. :)
sometimes you need to receive emails from emails you'll never email to (got it?;), e.g. login magic link, or email to validate a new account > how do you manage that?
I'm one of the earlier users of Mailman and it's been a big upgrade to my email workflow. I’ve tried a ton of different email apps, plugins, hacks, etc to manage my inbox over the years. This brings together a few useful tools to help make triaging email in batches a lot easier.
It took a few days to test different delivery winows, set VIPs, and tune my screening settings, but now I’m spending a lot less time being pulled into email.
@alexheeton Hey Alex, really really grateful to have you onboard! <3 Yes, it could take a few days initially to get used to the email workflow.
Glad you stuck around! <3