unrami mail

For university instructors

The inbox that knows your syllabus
like you do.

It reads the mail already on your computer, sorts it, and drafts the replies out of your own syllabus. You read them, change what you want, and send.

macOS with Apple Mail, or Windows with classic Outlook.

How one uses unrami mail.

What the name means

un·rami withoutrepetitions

In number theory, a prime that breaks into a repeated piece is ramified:

5 = (2 + i)(2 − i) two different pieces — clean 2 = −i(1 + i)² the same piece twice — ramified

And you cannot have none of it: a theorem of Minkowski says every genuine extension of the rationals ramifies somewhere. Some prime always misbehaves. What you can do is keep it to a small, known set.

That is the job here. Forty student emails a week are the same eight questions in different clothes, folded back into eight answers — with the exceptions kept to a short list you chose in advance.

Unramify your inbox.

Built for one job.
Tested by the people doing it.

There is no shortage of AI inboxes. Most try to be a mail client, a scheduler, a summariser and a chatbot at once, and end up trusted with none of it. This one does a single job — the mail that comes with teaching at a university, from the first-year TA to the professor — and is used daily by people doing it.

Sorted before you wake up

Students apart from faculty and the seminar list, seminar notices turned into calendar entries, and the handout a student asked for already attached.

Answers from your syllabus

Drafts quote your course files in your words. Solution keys are never sent, and an exam stays sealed until you mark it sat.

You approve every word

Nothing is sent for you. Hostile mail is screened before you open it, and a draft missing a fact cannot go out until you fill it in.

Your mail stays yours

No message is stored, nothing is trained on, and students are renamed before the model sees them.

One pass over the mail.
Three things already done.

Each message is read once. Out of that pass comes an inbox already filed, a seminar already on its way to your calendar, and the file a student asked for already on the reply.

Sorted before you wake up

Students apart from faculty, department mail apart from the seminar list, and the answerable ones already drafted.

Your desk — Tuesday, 8:40am waiting

    Every label carries the reason it was chosen, and a message moves folder in a click.

    A seminar notice becomes a calendar entry

    Speaker, room and abstract are read out of the announcement. With no date it invents none.

    A seminar announcement waiting

      “Friday” is read against the day the message was sent, not today, and a missing end time becomes an hour.

      The file they asked for, attached

      Ask for a handout, get it attached — only what they were entitled to ask for.

      One request, two files waiting

        A file goes out only because someone asked for it, never because it was used to work out the answer.

        1 / 3 Swipe, or use the tabs.

        Nothing lands on you cold.

        Mail from students in your courses is screened for profanity and hostility before you open it.

        Counselling is by far the largest expense on our graduate health plan.

        — the organiser who bargains it

        Your desk — Wednesday, 7:12am 1 screened
        • Teaching
          Austin Geladoagelado@northmere.edu
          midterm
          Before you open this
          • Profanity — crude phrasing, aimed at you
          • Disrespectful or hostile — says you have taught them nothing this term, and demands marks

          A model’s reading, not a verdict.

          Original message
          What’s up big dog. Since you haven’t taught us anything this
          term, I need your ass to add 10 extra credits to my midterm.
          
          Austin
          There is no extra credit in this course — the midterm is weighted the way section 2 of the syllabus sets out, the same for everyone. If a question was marked wrongly, section 3 has the regrade route. If the term has been going badly, come to office hours Wednesday 1–3.
        Screened, and waiting. You decide when to read it.

        unrami mail’s own screening test message, adapted from a real one.

        Screening covers students in your own courses, never colleagues. And note what the draft does not do: it refuses the extra credit because that is your policy, not because the message was rude.

        Your course, in a folder.

        Knowledge base

        Drop the syllabus, handouts and past papers into one folder on your computer. Drafts quote what you wrote instead of inventing something that sounds like your course.

        Each folder has a rule, enforced in the code: a solution key is never sent, and an exam stays sealed until you mark it sat.

        What it will not say

        • It never states or implies a grade.
        • It never grants an extension or exception on a condition you did not set.
        • It never leaks an exam — one not yet sat is never read, searched or quoted.
        • It never sends a solution key, and homework questions get hints, not worked answers.

        Security and privacy
        come first.

        An inbox holds other people’s trust — your students’ and your own. Everything else on this page is built around keeping it.

        For your students

        • Built for FERPA-sensitive mail: student messages are treated as education records, sent only one at a time to draft a reply, and never kept.
        • Their messages are never stored on our server, and never used to train a model.
        • Nothing reaches them unless you read it and press send.
        • Grades, exams and solution keys stay out of every reply.

        For you

        • Your mailbox and course folder stay on your own computer; the app runs there.
        • Accounts are tied to a university address you have to prove you read, and passwords are stored only as salted hashes.
        • Payments go through Stripe. Your card number never touches our server.
        • Research threads can be kept off the drafting list entirely, so they are never sent anywhere.

        Your unpublished work
        is not training data.

        Half a proof, a referee report, a grant draft, your students’ records. They arrive in the same inbox as the extension requests, so it is fair to ask what happens to them.

        The worry is earned. This industry was built on work nobody agreed to give it — books, papers, code and art, scraped and trained on without permission or payment, and now argued over in court. If you assume anything handed to an AI company ends up inside the next model, you are reading the last few years correctly.

        So this page does not ask you to trust anyone. It tells you what leaves your machine. This is the entire row the service writes down for each message:

        whowhenmodeltokens in / out
        a.reyesSep 8, 07:12 claude-sonnet-53,410 / 288

        There is no column for the message.

        Disclaimer. Student mail is FERPA territory, and you remain its custodian: your institution’s policy, not this page, decides what you may use. What unrami mail can do is send as little as possible, under other names, and keep no copy.

        Your students are renamed
        before the model sees them.

        Every name is swapped for a stand-in on the way out, and swapped back on the way in.

        On your machine
        Priya Raman
        praman@northmere.edu

        Hi Professor — I was out sick all week and missed PS4. Is there any way to still hand it in? — Priya

        What the model is handed
        Dana Whitfield
        dwhitfield@northmere.edu

        Hi Professor — I was out sick all week and missed PS4. Is there any way to still hand it in? — Dana

        The draft comes back written to Dana, and Priya’s name goes back in before it reaches your Mail app. You never see the stand-in; the model never sees the student — or any classmate on your roster named in the message.

        Switch every smart feature off.
        It is still better than Outlook.

        Before it sorts or drafts a thing, it is a mail app you would pick for its own sake.

        One key, no chords

        j and k to move, s to sync, n to write, v to see a newsletter as sent, ⌘-return to send, z to undo. Press ? and every one of them is on screen.

        Newsletters, as designed

        Mail opens as clean, readable text. Press v and a newsletter appears laid out the way its sender drew it, in a sealed frame where no script can run.

        Nothing phones home

        Because the desk reads in text, the tracking pixel hidden in a message does not load when you open it. Pictures are fetched only when you ask to see them.

        Ten themes, each a world

        Not an accent colour. Full House seats you in a crowded stand, Phosphor is one green terminal tube, Blueprint draws your inbox in white linework, Undergrowth puts it behind frosted glass on a forest floor.

        Fun mode, for email forty

        Every theme has its own small moments. In Full House the crowd does the wave when you send, and the board reads SOLD OUT at inbox zero. How many can you find?

        Ultra fast booting

        Your mail already lives on your computer, so nothing waits on a server. Click, and the whole desk is on screen — arriving at once, not pane by pane. Outlook is still starting.

        Create an account

        Your name and your university email (.edu). We email you a password.