My email agent runs on an old PC under my desk and sends nothing without my yes
He runs his email agent on a 2018 computer he already owned. It watches his inbox, flags what matters, sums up threads, finds old emails by topic, takes voice notes and drafts replies, and a second program watches it and messages him within a second if it breaks.
This only partly worked. Read what happened before you try it.
How it works
- Run the agent on his own 2018 PC with Qwen 2.5 via Ollama
- It watches the inbox, flags what matters, sums up threads and finds old emails by topic
- Whisper turns voice notes into text, 13 seconds of speech in under half a second
- A small paid router call decides what he is asking and how sure it is, and the agent says so when it is not sure
- Sending stays locked down, it only replies to an email it just showed him and waits for a typed yes
- A second program watches the first and alerts him within a second if it breaks, back up in 15
Why it’s worth knowing
The whole thing runs on an 8 year old PC under his desk, and a second program watches the first one and brings it back in 15 seconds when it breaks.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗