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Dev tools · May 13, 2026

e2a – open-source email API for agents

Give your AI agents a real, authenticated email address.

e2a – open-source email API for agents launched on May 13, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,742 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

1. Email threading stays consistent with agent conversation threading 2. Human in the loop review for outbound emails (especially during testing phase) 3. Quick onboarding/offboarding email addresses for agents within minutes 4. Websocket for local agents and at-least-once webhook delivery for Cloud agents 5. 100% open source — self-host or use hosted

Send transactional email from any product, give agents real two-way inboxes, and keep people in control. Use e2a as a hosted service or run the Apache-2.0 stack yourself.

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