Author profile
Qasim Muhammad
Staff SRE
Qasim writes and maintains the Nylas CLI guides, with a focus on email automation, MCP, AI agents, and production-safe workflows.
Areas of expertise
- Email APIs
- CLI tools
- Developer tools
- AI agents
- Model Context Protocol
Guides on this site
- Build an AI Email Triage Agent
Build an AI agent that reads your inbox, classifies emails by urgency, drafts replies, and archives noise. Python + Nylas CLI + any LLM.
- Send iCloud Mail from the CLI
Send iCloud Mail from terminal without SMTP config or app-specific passwords. Works with @icloud.com, custom domains, and Hide My Email aliases.
- Reach Inbox Zero with Manus AI
Reach inbox zero with Manus AI. Triage unread email, categorize by urgency, draft replies, and archive — all via natural language and Nylas CLI.
- Reconstruct Org Charts from Email CC Patterns
Infer reporting lines, detect managers from CC behavior, and estimate seniority from email response patterns. Build org charts from inbox data with Nylas CLI.
- Group Inbox by Corporate Email Domain
Organize your inbox by sender domain to identify which companies email you most. Filter freemail providers, map subsidiaries to parent companies, and export to CSV.
- Monitor Your Inbox with PowerShell
Build inbox monitoring and alerting scripts with PowerShell and Nylas CLI. Poll for new emails, watch for specific senders, trigger Teams webhooks and desktop notifications.
- Automate Email and Calendar in PowerShell
Cross-provider email and calendar automation in PowerShell using Nylas CLI. Read emails, create events, check availability, and schedule meetings from scripts.
- Send Email from PowerShell
Send email from PowerShell using Nylas CLI. Replaces Send-MailMessage with OAuth2, attachments, HTML body, scheduling, and multi-recipient support. No SMTP config required.
- Design Email Systems for AI Agents: Structured Formats and Machine-Readable Templates
How to design email workflows that AI agents can parse reliably. Structured JSON output, machine-readable templates, agent-friendly headers, and MCP server integration.
- Install the OpenClaw Nylas Plugin
Install @nylas/openclaw-nylas-plugin to add native email, calendar, and contact tools to OpenClaw. Covers API key setup, grant discovery, and plugin vs exec.
- List IMAP Emails from the Command Line
List, search, and filter emails from any IMAP server from your terminal. Works with Fastmail, ProtonMail Bridge, Zoho, and any IMAP-compatible provider.
- Gmail API ETag, If-Match, and history.list
Exact answers for Gmail API ETag, If-Match, If-None-Match, messages.get, 304 Not Modified, and history.list when deleting labels.