Connect Perplexity to Apple Mail

Name: Pomeroy
Price: 19 USD

Yes, Perplexity can read your Apple Mail. Pomeroy connects Perplexity to Apple Mail on your Mac, so it can list your mailboxes, read messages, and search your mail by sender, subject, or body text. Pomeroy cannot send, reply, delete, or move mail; it only reads.

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Free for 50 actions a week. No account, no card. Or get Perplexity first.

What can you ask Perplexity to do in Apple Mail?

“Find the flight confirmation from March and tell me the times.”
“Show me my most recent job application emails.”
“What unread mail do I have?”
“Search my mail for the plumber’s invoice and tell me the total.”
“Read me the latest email from the school and pull out the dates.”
“Which mailbox has the most unread messages?”

What Perplexity can do in Apple Mail

List your mailboxes, with message and unread counts.
List and read messages in any mailbox.
Search subjects and senders, or message bodies through an index built on your Mac.
List unread mail, newest first.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Mail

Send a message, a reply, or a forward.
Delete, move, or archive mail.
Mark anything read or unread.

Your mailbox stays exactly as you left it.

How to connect perplexity to apple mail

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Perplexity first if it is not there yet.

1
Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple Mail.
Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. macOS asks whether Pomeroy may control Mail, which is how one Mac app reads another's mail. The prompt names Pomeroy, and nothing is requested until you flip the toggle.
2
Press Set up beside Perplexity.
Perplexity's Mac app takes local connectors through a form, with no file and no link, so Pomeroy puts the two values on your clipboard.
3
Paste it into Perplexity.
Paste the configuration into Perplexity › Settings › Connectors › Add Connector. In Perplexity, Settings › Connectors lists Pomeroy once you save the form. Perplexity may first ask you to install its helper for local connectors. You may need to restart Perplexity.
4
Ask Perplexity something.
Try “Find the flight confirmation from March and tell me the times.” and a real answer comes back.

The configuration, in full

Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.

Can Perplexity read my Apple Mail?

Yes. Once you switch Mail on in Pomeroy, Perplexity can list your mailboxes, read messages, and search your mail. Searches cover subjects and senders, and message bodies through an index built and kept on your Mac.

Can Perplexity send email for me?

No. Pomeroy has no way to send, reply, or forward, so Perplexity cannot be talked into it. If you want a reply written, Perplexity can draft the words and you send them yourself.

Is it safe to connect Perplexity to Apple Mail?

Pomeroy reads your mail on your Mac and sends nothing to a Pomeroy server. What Perplexity reads becomes part of your conversation, the same as text you paste in. Mail starts switched off, and you can switch it off again at any time. Pomeroy is an independent app, not made by Anthropic.

Perplexity does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Try restarting Perplexity; its documentation does not say whether it reloads on its own. Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether Perplexity is connected right now.

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Try Perplexity with Apple Mail.

Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.