Use the atbridge AI Chat

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The atbridge AI Chat is a panel inside Thunderbird where the AI of your choice works your mail and calendar — across every account at once, on your machine.

Note

First time? Set up the atbridge extension and connect a provider first.

Open it and ask

1. Click the @b button in Thunderbird to open the chat.

2. Pick your provider and model from the dropdowns (switch any time).

3. Ask in plain language — for example:

   • “How many unread emails do I have per account?”
   • “Summarise the thread from Maya and draft a friendly reply.”
   • “Find the invoice from last month and forward it to accounting.”
   • “What’s on my calendar today, and is anything clashing?”

Reads are instant; writes ask first

Reading, searching, and summarising happen straight away. Anything that changes your mail or calendar — sending, replying, moving, deleting, creating an event — pauses for your confirmation before it runs. The AI proposes; you approve.

Sometimes the AI needs a detail before it can go on — which account, which date. It then asks with a question card: answer it (or press Skip) and the conversation continues.

Tip

Want a quick, deterministic answer with no AI tokens? Type / for a skill — /today, /from, /clashes, and more.

The ☰ menu

The ☰ button next to the message box groups everything you can do from the chat:

• Draft actions (in the compose window only) — Improve Draft, Make Branded Email, Save as Template, Insert Image.
• AI Chat actions — Prompt library and Add files (attach context).
• Settings — Show Fast Actions, Allow AI in Fast Actions, Allow Web Search.

Make it yours

• Prompt library — save prompts you reuse (Settings → Prompt library), then run them from the ☰ menu next to the message box — in AI Chat and in the compose window.
• Optional features — turn off what you don’t use (Branded emails, Templates, Insert Image) in Settings → Preferences → Optional features. A feature that is off disappears from every menu, and the AI stops offering it.
• Preferences — standing instructions for the AI — in general and per domain (mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes), plus per account, calendar and contact book: which account it sends from, which calendar it uses, the default tone (Settings → Preferences).
• Answer length — Balanced (default), Brief or Detailed (Settings → Preferences).
• Any provider, any model — connect several and switch per task; local Ollama keeps everything on your machine.

Related

• atbridge Skills
• Branded Email — turn a request into an on-brand HTML email
• Connect your AI