I built Ten O'Clock Postman because I wanted a better way to sort through my own email.
My inbox had become a place where things went to be forgotten. Rules and filters helped for a week, then drifted out of date. The tools that promised to fix it all wanted the same thing in return: permission to read every message. That never sat right with me. Sorting mail is a filing problem, and a filing clerk only needs to see the envelope — who it's from, what it's about, when it came. Not what's inside.
So I made a tool that works the way I wanted it to. It looks at subject lines, senders, and dates — never the contents of an email — and proposes a tidier set of folders. Then it waits. Nothing moves until I've looked at the plan and said yes, and anything it does can be undone. The same discipline software developers use to review code before it ships, applied to a mailbox.
The name is a small promise. A good postman comes at the same hour each day, sorts what's arrived, and doesn't read your letters.
What I'm committed to
- Metadata only, always. Message bodies and attachments are never fetched, stored, or sent to any model. This is written into the Privacy Policy and enforced in the code.
- You decide. Every change is proposed, reviewed, and approved by you. There is no background mode that reorganises your mail while you sleep.
- Reversible by design. Every cleanup is recorded with its inverse before it is applied.
- Your choice of AI. Bring your own key, point it at an endpoint you control, or use the managed assistant. The model is swappable; the privacy rules are not.
- No advertising, ever. Your mail is not a product. It is not sold, shared, or used to profile you.
Where it's made
Ten O'Clock Postman is built and run from Singapore. Our privacy practices follow Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act, and we honour the data rights of users elsewhere too — see the Privacy Policy. Questions, ideas, or something that doesn't look right? Write to tenoclockpostman.email.sorter@gmail.com. I read every message.