--- title: Introduction description: "Mailtidy is a unified inbox for all your IMAP email accounts — one time-sorted, searchable, keyboard-driven stream." --- > **For AI agents:** the complete documentation index is at [llms.txt](/llms.txt). Append `.md` to any page URL for its markdown version. Mailtidy connects your email accounts over IMAP and merges them into a single, time-sorted stream. Read everything in one place, search across every account at once, and move through your mail with the keyboard. Mailtidy works with any provider that speaks **IMAP** — Gmail, Fastmail, iCloud, Office 365, and self-hosted servers included. Your mail stays on your provider; Mailtidy is a reader and composer on top of it. ## What you can do Every account merged into a single newest-first stream. Filter to one account, or read them all together. Full-text search across all your accounts at once — no switching mailboxes. Navigate, read, reply, archive, and delete without touching the mouse. Compose and reply over your account's own SMTP — sent mail lands in your real Sent folder. ## How it stays in sync Mailtidy keeps a live connection to your inbox, so new mail appears within seconds — no manual refresh. Actions flow both ways: mark something read in Mailtidy and it's read on the server; archive or delete in another mail app and it disappears here too. Archiving, deleting, and moving in Mailtidy perform the **real IMAP operations** on your account. Delete is recoverable — it moves mail to Trash, not straight to permanent deletion. ## Private by design Your IMAP credentials are encrypted at rest and never stored in plaintext. Connections use TLS. Removing an account from Mailtidy deletes the local copy only — **your mailbox is never touched.** ## Next steps Go from sign-up to a unified inbox in a few minutes. What you need to connect Gmail, Fastmail, Office 365, and more.