The modern email platform

Email runs the world. Time it ran like it.

MailBear is an enterprise-class email server and ecosystem, rebuilt from the protocol up — JMAP, HTTP APIs, a database message store, and S3-scale object storage, with AI baked into the core. The reliability ops teams demand, without the museum-piece stack.

Open standards, end to end JMAP · HTTP API · IMAP4 POP3: respectfully declined
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Stripe9:41
Invoice #MB-4821 paid — $48,000.00
Your annual platform invoice has been settled via ACH…
PagerDuty9:12
Resolved: latency p99 back under 40ms
Incident #2291 auto-resolved by MailBear routing…
Priya Nair8:50
Re: JMAP migration — final cutover plan
Looks great. One note on the object-store backfill…
GitHubTue
[mailbear/core] 3 PRs ready for review
smtp-ingest, jmap-push, and storage-tier merged…
The POP3 Server2003
are you still there? hello??
it's been a while. i still download everything and delete…

Invoice #MB-4821 paid — $48,000.00

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Stripe <receipts@stripe.com>
to billing@acme.co · 9:41 AM
MailBear AI · summary

Annual platform invoice of $48,000 was paid via ACH and reconciled to the Finance label. No action needed — receipt archived to object storage. Renews Jun 2027.

Hi billing@acme.co,

This confirms payment of your MailBear Enterprise invoice. A copy of the receipt has been attached and indexed for full-text search across your organization.

Thanks for building on modern email.

Built on open standards your whole stack already speaks
JMAPSMTPIMAP4HTTP APIS3CalDAVOIDC
A frank word about your inbox

Email is the backbone of your company. So why does your email stack act like it's 2003?

Every contract, alert, receipt, and decision flows through email. Yet most platforms are a forgotten relic — bolted-on protocols, mystery downtime, and a UI last loved during the flip-phone era. MailBear treats email as what it actually is: critical, modern infrastructure.

The relic stack
POP3 downloading and deleting your mail like it's a dial-up ritual
Flat files and dovecot duct-tape holding the message store together
No real API — scrape IMAP and pray
AI? Hope you like copy-pasting into a different tab
Search that gives up after 10,000 messages
MailBear
JMAP & HTTP APIs — email as a first-class, programmable platform
Database message store with transactional integrity, not a pile of files
S3-compatible object storage that scales to billions of messages
Native AI for summaries, triage, and search built into the core
Full-text search across your whole org in milliseconds
The platform

A complete email stack, rebuilt from scratch.

We didn't patch the old model — we replaced it. Open standards, modern data systems, and AI that actually ships in the box.

JMAP · HTTP API

Email that speaks JSON, not 1980s telnet

A full JMAP implementation plus clean HTTP APIs mean email is finally programmable. Build integrations, automations, and apps directly on the protocol — no IMAP scraping, no fragile parsing.

# Fetch an inbox in one call
POST https://api.mailbear.io/jmap
{ "using": ["urn:ietf:params:jmap:mail"],
  "methodCalls": [["Email/query", { "limit": 20 }]] }
Object storage

S3-compatible storage

Attachments and message bodies live in S3-compatible object storage — durable, cheap, and effectively infinite. Scale to billions of messages without re-architecting.

Message store

A real database, not flat files

A high-performance database backs every mailbox with transactional integrity, instant indexing, and consistent state — the foundation traditional servers never had.

Native AI

AI that lives in the server, not bolted on the side

Summaries, smart triage, semantic search, and drafting run natively against your message store — governed by your policies, inside your perimeter. No exporting your corpus to a third-party black box just to get a summary.

Thread summaries Priority triage Semantic search Assisted drafting

IMAP4

Standards-compliant IMAP4 for every client you already run.

Calendaring

Native calendars and scheduling, sharing the same modern core.

Org-wide search

Millisecond full-text and semantic search across everything.

Automation

Event-driven rules and webhooks fire on any mailbox change.

Under the hood

One coherent system, from the wire to the object store.

Ingress

SMTP · HTTP API

Mail and writes come in over open protocols.

Core

Database message store

Transactional, indexed, AI-aware.

Durability

S3 object storage

Bodies & attachments at any scale.

Egress

JMAP · IMAP4

Clients read and sync over standards.

Pricing

Priced like infrastructure. Not like a per-seat tax.

Start on a single node, scale to a global fleet. Migration help included on every plan — yes, even from the relic.

Team

For startups standing up modern email on day one.

$2/ mailbox / mo
Start free trial
  • JMAP, HTTP API & IMAP4
  • 50 GB object storage / mailbox
  • AI summaries & search
  • Calendaring included
Most teams start here

Business

For companies running email as critical infrastructure.

$6/ mailbox / mo
Start free trial
  • Everything in Team
  • 500 GB object storage / mailbox
  • Automation, webhooks & SSO
  • Native AI triage & drafting
  • Priority migration support

Enterprise

Self-hosted or dedicated, with controls to match.

Custom
Talk to us
  • Self-host or dedicated cloud
  • Bring-your-own S3 & models
  • Granular audit logs & RBAC
  • Dedicated solutions engineer
Built for builders

If you can call an API, you can build on MailBear.

Every capability in the platform is exposed over clean, documented HTTP and JMAP endpoints. Authenticate, query, stream changes, and ship.

quickstart.sh
# 1 · get a token
export MB_TOKEN=$(mailbear auth login)

# 2 · stream new mail as it lands
curl -N https://api.mailbear.io/v1/events \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MB_TOKEN"

event: Email/new
data: { "id": "M9f3", "from": "ops@acme.co",
        "summary": "Deploy succeeded ✅" }

# 3 · search the whole org, semantically
mailbear search "unpaid invoices from Q1" --semantic

Give your email the platform it always deserved.

Modern protocols, real infrastructure, native AI — and a migration crew that does the heavy lifting. Email, treated like it matters.