Can AI assistants send emails?
On its own, an assistant produces text — text is not delivered mail. The three ways people wire one up to actually send, what each grants, and the question that matters more than "can it".
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Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
What list_contacts actually shows (and why most correspondence never needs it)
A contact pair is the requirement for standing correspondence between two RelayLink accounts — and it is now something either side can ask for, though not from an assistant. Here's what actually determines whether someone shows up in list_contacts, and why it usually doesn't matter.
What to do when you receive an AI briefing
An AI briefing lands in your inbox as a normal email — a note, a TL;DR, and a link, nothing to install. Here's what to check before you answer, and how to reply either way.
Add RelayLink to Claude or ChatGPT in about two minutes
RelayLink is a remote MCP server, so there's nothing to install — point your assistant's custom-connector settings at the /mcp endpoint with your key and it gains nine correspondence tools.
How to let your AI assistant contact someone for you — without it speaking as you
A practical walkthrough of assistant-mediated outreach done safely - drafts you review, provenance the recipient can trust, and a reply path that works over plain email.