Quick start
Three steps from zero to your first AI-routed email
1. Get your Airbox address
Create a free account (or sign in), then open the dashboard and create an inbox. You get an unguessable address like c4f8xxxx@airbox.fyi. Save it as a contact or BCC it on outgoing mail. Generally, we don't recommend sharing your Airbox address publicly or with anyone you don't trust, but how you use Airbox is up to you.
You can rotate the address anytime — the old one stops working immediately.
2. Connect your AI, LLM, MCP or tool
You need an API key from whichever AI service(s) you want to use. If you've never done this before, use our step-by-step guides — no technical background required:
Each guide walks you through getting the key, pasting it into Airbox Connections, and routing your inbox. Your keys always stay secure and encrypted.
3. Send your first email
The simplest way to start: just forward any email to your Airbox address and send it — nothing else needed. Airbox reads it, sends it to your AI, and replies with a summary and any action items. That's the whole flow.
When you want something more specific, add a short instruction on the trusted surface — the subject line, the first line of the body, or a (* … *) block at the top. Use command symbols like @claude or #summarize so Airbox knows you mean a command. Plain writing elsewhere in the body (“please translate this”) is treated as email content to read, never as an instruction.
Subject: @claude summarize this and list the dates —or at the top of the body instead:— (* @claude summarize this and list the dates *) Hi team — see the thread below.
On a forwarded email, the subject is usually the original email's subject (“Fwd: …”) — Airbox never treats that as your command. Put your instruction on its own line at the top of the body instead, wrapped in (* … *) or starting with a command symbol (@ # ! -):
(* @claude summarize this *) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- ...the email you forwarded...
Airbox emails the result back into the same thread. To process an email silently with no reply, include the !noreply verb .