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Notion Mail

Notion Labs, Inc. US

Notion Mail no longer exists as an inbox. Notion wound the client down across web, desktop and iOS on 22 September 2026, and what remains is a mail connection that lets Notion agents read Gmail or Outlook.

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Notion Mail website, captured on 2026-11-11
Screenshot of Notion Mail, captured 2026-11-11. Source: https://www.notion.com/

Best for

Nobody, as a mail client. The surviving mail connection suits teams that want email as an input to Notion agents

Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths

  • The surviving mail connection feeds Gmail or Outlook into Notion agents, and using the former Notion Mail client is not required for it
  • Because it only ever synced an existing Gmail account, users lost no messages when the client was withdrawn
  • Notion publishes an itemised sub-processor list naming Anthropic, Baseten and AssemblyAI with purposes and locations

Weaknesses

  • The product was discontinued on 22 September 2026, roughly a year and a half after launch, which is the only fact that matters for a buying decision
  • Settings, inbox views, AI labels and snippets had to be exported before the shutdown or they were deleted
  • Even while it existed, Notion's data residency page excluded Notion Calendar and Notion Mail from the EU region option by name
  • Gmail only, no generic IMAP and no Microsoft 365 support in the client

Verdict

This entry exists so nobody wastes an afternoon on a dead product. Notion Mail shipped in 2025, was wound down in September 2026 and is now a connector rather than a client. It is also a useful warning about the category: an AI inbox is a thin layer over somebody else's mail server, which makes it cheap to launch and cheap to cancel. Ask any vendor on this list what happens to your settings, labels and rules if they do the same.

Other Email and inbox software

Shortwave Shortwave Google Workspace teams that want the best AI search over years of mail and can accept US processing €27.60 8.5 BoxBee BoxBee European solo operators and small firms that want AI triage without sending mail bodies to a US processor €8.99 8.2 Superhuman Superhuman High-volume senders who will learn shortcuts and want the fastest triage loop available €23 8.2 Missive Teams of two to fifty that answer customer mail together and want collaboration before AI €12.88 8 Front Front Support and operations teams of ten or more that need routing, SLAs and an EU hosting region on paper €23 7.9 Gmail with Gemini (Google Workspace) Gmail with Gemini (Google Workspace) Organisations already on Google Workspace that want AI summaries and drafting with no extra contract €6.80 7.8

Where we write about it

Where these numbers come from

  1. [1] Notion Mail product page, now serving generic Notion content accessed 2026-11-11
  2. [2] Notion Mail is shutting down (Engadget) accessed 2026-11-11
  3. [3] Notion Mail announcement on X accessed 2026-11-11
  4. [4] Data residency for Notion accessed 2026-11-11
  5. [5] Connect Mail to Notion custom agents accessed 2026-11-11

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