# Dead Simple Email

> Purpose-built email API for AI agents — create inboxes, send and receive messages, and automate with real-time webhooks via REST API or IMAP/SMTP.

Dead Simple Email is an email API and dashboard built specifically for AI agents that need real inboxes with full send, receive, and webhook capabilities. Founded by Bridget, who saw teams repeatedly struggling with Gmail suspensions, OAuth complexity, and per-seat pricing cliffs, the platform runs on its own dedicated mail infrastructure rather than reselling third-party services. It targets developers building AI SDRs, support agents, scheduling assistants, and multi-agent applications that need programmatic email at scale.

## What It Is

Dead Simple Email is infrastructure-layer email for software agents — not a marketing platform, not a Gmail replacement, and not a human-facing mailbox suite. It provides an API-first system where agents can create inboxes on demand, send outbound email with SPF/DKIM/DMARC pre-configured, and receive inbound replies as structured JSON via real-time webhooks. Every inbox also ships with standard IMAP/SMTP credentials, so teams can connect legacy tools or email clients alongside the REST API.

## How the Agent Email Stack Works

The platform is organized around three core capabilities:

- **Identity:** Each agent, customer, or workflow gets its own real email address. Inboxes are created with a single `POST /inboxes` call and are immediately available on a shared subdomain (e.g., `support@yourco.deadsimple.email`). Custom domains with auto-provisioned SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are available on paid plans.
- **Inbound:** Replies arrive as structured JSON via HMAC-signed webhooks or WebSocket streaming. The platform automatically strips quoted text, threads conversations, and extracts sender metadata — so agents receive clean, parsed data rather than raw MIME.
- **Guardrails:** Per-inbox agent controls include rate limits, domain allow/blocklists, draft approval for human-in-the-loop review, and action permissions — giving teams control over what autonomous agents actually send.

## Framework Integrations and SDK Coverage

Dead Simple Email ships drop-in integrations for LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, LlamaIndex, and Google ADK. It also provides a native MCP (Model Context Protocol) server with 11 email tools, compatible with Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and any other MCP-compatible client. Typed, async-ready SDKs are available for Python, TypeScript, and Go, plus a CLI tool. The platform states that most competing agent email APIs ship no framework integrations at all.

## Infrastructure and Deliverability Model

According to the About page, Dead Simple Email operates its own dedicated mail transfer agents (built on KumoMTA) for outbound delivery and dedicated inbound servers for receiving — it is not a wrapper around AWS SES or SendGrid. The platform handles bounce classification, automatic suppression of hard-bouncing addresses, and domain reputation management. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are configured automatically for both shared and custom domains, with no manual DNS work required to start on the shared domain.

## Who It's Built For

The platform targets four primary audiences, as described on the About page:

- **AI SDR and outreach tools** that need 10–50 dedicated sending inboxes per customer deployment without per-seat pricing destroying margins
- **AI support platforms** that require per-customer inboxes with conversation threading, multi-day history, and draft approval workflows
- **Multi-agent framework developers** using LangChain, CrewAI, or AutoGen who need a clean email tool without OAuth boilerplate
- **SaaS products and agencies** managing inboxes across many clients who need multi-tenant pods with scoped API keys

## Current Status

Dead Simple Email is actively available with a permanent free tier (no credit card required, no time limit) and four public pricing tiers. The platform lists webhooks, a full web dashboard, threading, reply parsing, open/click tracking, bounce handling, contacts, templates, drafts, and multi-tenant pods as shipping features. The FAQ notes that dedicated IPs are not currently offered. Annual pricing is available by contacting the team directly rather than through a self-serve toggle.

## Features
- Programmatic inbox creation via REST API
- Full send and receive (bidirectional email)
- Real-time inbound webhooks with HMAC signing
- WebSocket streaming for inbound messages
- Automatic email threading and reply parsing
- IMAP/SMTP credentials on every inbox
- Custom domain support with auto SPF/DKIM/DMARC
- Shared domain available instantly (no DNS setup)
- Multi-tenant pods with scoped API keys
- Draft approval for human-in-the-loop review
- Agent guardrails (rate limits, domain restrictions, action permissions)
- Open and click tracking with webhook events
- Bounce handling and suppression lists
- Email templates with variable substitution
- Contact management
- Bulk inbox creation
- Web dashboard for visual inbox management
- MCP server with 11 email tools
- LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, LlamaIndex integrations
- Python, TypeScript, and Go SDKs
- CLI tool
- API key authentication (no OAuth required)

## Integrations
LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK, LlamaIndex, Google ADK, Claude (MCP), Cursor (MCP), Windsurf (MCP), OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Stripe (billing), Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook

## Platforms
WEB, API, CLI, DEVELOPER_SDK

## Pricing
Freemium — Free tier available with paid upgrades

## Links
- Website: https://deadsimple.email
- Documentation: https://deadsimple.email/docs.html
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/dead-simple-email