Inbox Zero

Open source email app to reach inbox zero fast.
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About

Inbox Zero is an open-source email app whose goal is to help you reach inbox zero fast with AI assistance.

Demo Video

Key Features

• Newsletter Cleaner: Easily manage and unsubscribe from newsletters.
• AI Assistant: Auto respond, archive, label, and forward emails based on plain text prompt rules.
• Cold Email Blocker: Automatically block cold emails.
• Email Analytics: Track your email activity with daily, weekly, and monthly stats.
• New Senders: Identify and block new spam senders.
• Unreplied Emails: Keep track of emails awaiting responses.
• Large Email Finder: Free up space by locating and deleting large emails.

Built with

• Next.js
• Tailwind CSS
• shadcn/ui
• Prisma
• Tinybird
• Upstash
• Turbo

Feature Requests

To request a feature open a GitHub issue. If you don't have a GitHub account you can request features here. Or join our Discord.

Getting Started for Developers

Contributing to the project

We have a public Kanban available here. Join our Discord to discuss tasks and check what's being worked on.

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18.0.0
• pnpm >= 8.6.12
• Docker desktop (optional)

Setup

Here's a video on how to set up the project. It covers the same steps mentioned in this document. But goes into greater detail on setting up the external services.

The external services that are required are:

• OpenAI
• Google OAuth
• Google PubSub - see set up instructions below
• Upstash Redis - you can also use regular Redis with the Docker Compose.
• Tinybird - you can run the app without this but some features then will be disabled.

We use Postgres for the database.

You can run Postgres & Redis locally using docker-compose

docker-compose up -d # -d will run the services in the background

Create your own .env file:

cp apps/web/.env.example apps/web/.env
cd apps/web
pnpm install

Set the environment variables in the newly created .env. You can see a list of required variables in: apps/web/env.ts.

The required environment variables:

• NEXTAUTH_SECRET -- can be any random string (try using openssl rand -hex 32 for a quick secure random string)
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID -- Google OAuth client ID. More info here
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET -- Google OAuth client secret. More info here
• OPENAI_API_KEY -- OpenAI API key.
• UPSTASH_REDIS_URL -- Redis URL from Upstash.
• UPSTASH_REDIS_TOKEN -- Redis token from Upstash.
• TINYBIRD_TOKEN -- Admin token for your Tinybird workspace (be sure to create an instance in the GCP us-east4 region. This can also be changed via your .env if you prefer a different region). You can also decide to disabled Tinybird and then the analytics and bulk unsubscribe features will be disabled. Set NEXT_PUBLIC_DISABLE_TINYBIRD=true if you decide to disable Tinybird.

To run the migrations:

pnpm prisma migrate dev

To run the app locally:

pnpm run dev

Or from the project root:

turbo dev

Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser. To upgrade yourself to admin visit: http://localhost:3000/admin.

Setting up Google OAuth and Gmail API

You need to enable these scopes in the Google Cloud Console:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.modify
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.settings.basic
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts

Setting up Tinybird

Follow the instructions here to setup the pipes and datasources.

Optional: If you want to store AI usage stats in Tinybird too, then do the same in /packages/tinybird-ai-analytics.

Set up push notifications via Google PubSub to handle emails in real time

Follow instructions here.

1. Create a topic
2. Create a subscription
3. Grant publish rights on your topic

Set env var GOOGLE_PUBSUB_TOPIC_NAME. When creating the subscription select Push and the url should look something like: https://www.getinboxzero.com/api/google/webhook?token=TOKEN or https://abc.ngrok-free.app/api/google/webhook?token=TOKEN where the domain is your domain. Set GOOGLE_PUBSUB_VERIFICATION_TOKEN in your .env file to be the value of TOKEN.

To run in development ngrok can be helpful:

ngrok http 3000
# or with an ngrok domain to keep your endpoint stable (set `XYZ`):
ngrok http --domain=XYZ.ngrok-free.app 3000

And then update the webhook endpoint in the Google PubSub subscriptions dashboard.

To start watching emails visit: /api/google/watch/all