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Grouping is ",[473,539,540],{},"inbox-only"," — every other folder stays a normal list.",[464,543,544,545,548],{},"When it's on, threads are bucketed into sections in a fixed order, ",[473,546,547],{},"People first",":",[550,551,552,565],"table",{},[553,554,555],"thead",{},[556,557,558,562],"tr",{},[559,560,561],"th",{},"Section",[559,563,564],{},"What lands here",[566,567,568,578,598,620,629],"tbody",{},[556,569,570,575],{},[571,572,573],"td",{},[473,574,475],{},[571,576,577],{},"Mail from a known human correspondent — someone in your personal address book, or someone you've written to before — with no automated markers.",[556,579,580,584],{},[571,581,582],{},[473,583,479],{},[571,585,586,587,590,591,594,595,522],{},"Broadcast\u002Flist mail: anything carrying a ",[513,588,589],{},"List-Unsubscribe"," header or ",[513,592,593],{},"Precedence: bulk","\u002F",[513,596,597],{},"list",[556,599,600,604],{},[571,601,602],{},[473,603,482],{},[571,605,606,607,476,610,476,613,476,616,619],{},"Automated \u002F system senders — ",[513,608,609],{},"no-reply@",[513,611,612],{},"notifications@",[513,614,615],{},"alerts@",[513,617,618],{},"security@",", and similar.",[556,621,622,626],{},[571,623,624],{},[473,625,485],{},[571,627,628],{},"Transactional mail: receipts, invoices, order confirmations, payment and subscription-renewal notices (detected from the subject).",[556,630,631,635],{},[571,632,633],{},[473,634,489],{},[571,636,637],{},"Anything not classified above — including threads the classifier hasn't reached yet, so nothing is ever hidden.",[464,639,640],{},"Empty sections are skipped, and each section header collapses so you can fold away a bucket you don't want to see; the collapsed state is remembered as you move around during the session.",[524,642,644],{"id":643},"how-a-thread-is-classified","How a thread is classified",[464,646,647,648,651,652,548],{},"Classification runs on the ",[473,649,650],{},"latest inbound message"," of a thread (not your own replies) in two stages, mirroring the ",[468,653,162],{"href":161},[655,656,657,697],"ol",{},[658,659,660,663,664,666,667,670,671,674,675,678,679,476,682,476,685,688,689,692,693,696],"li",{},[473,661,662],{},"A deterministic heuristic first."," Pure, fast rules decide the clear cases: a ",[513,665,589],{}," header or bulk ",[513,668,669],{},"Precedence"," makes it a ",[473,672,673],{},"Newsletter","; receipt\u002Finvoice\u002Forder keywords in the subject make it a ",[473,676,677],{},"Receipt","; an automated-sender local-part (",[513,680,681],{},"no-reply",[513,683,684],{},"notifications",[513,686,687],{},"alerts",", …) makes it a ",[473,690,691],{},"Notification","; a known human correspondent with none of those markers is a ",[473,694,695],{},"Person",". Genuinely ambiguous mail is left undecided.",[658,698,699,702,703,706,707,709,710,712],{},[473,700,701],{},"AI refinement for the ambiguous middle."," Only the mail the heuristic couldn't place is handed to a cheap-tier LLM pass, behind the same AI gate as the rest of Postbox AI. It ",[473,704,705],{},"fails soft",": if the ",[513,708,515],{}," flag is off, no provider is configured, or the call errors, the thread keeps its deterministic label (or falls back to ",[473,711,489],{},"). The message is treated as untrusted input, and the model only labels — it never sends, moves, or edits anything.",[464,714,715],{},"Classification happens when new mail is delivered to the inbox. A one-time backfill can also label your most recent existing inbox threads.",[524,717,719],{"id":718},"recategorize-as","Recategorize as…",[464,721,722,723,725],{},"If Smart Inbox files a sender wrong, open the thread's overflow menu and pick ",[473,724,719],{}," (Person \u002F Newsletter \u002F Notification \u002F Receipt \u002F Other). Your choice:",[727,728,729,735],"ul",{},[658,730,731,734],{},[473,732,733],{},"Always wins"," over both the heuristic and the AI — it's authoritative.",[658,736,737,740],{},[473,738,739],{},"Is remembered per sender."," The override is keyed to that sender's address, so future mail from them lands in the same section without another classification pass.",[464,742,743],{},"To change it back, recategorize the thread again.",[499,745,746],{"title":70,"type":502},[464,747,748,749,752,753,756,757,761,762,765,766,769],{},"Smart Inbox ships with Postbox (",[513,750,751],{},"postbox"," or ",[513,754,755],{},"mail.external","). 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