> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.inboxmate.psquared.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Quickstart

> Connect your mailbox, confirm your categories, and approve your first AI-sorted emails in under 10 minutes.

This guide walks you through connecting your mailbox, letting InboxMate propose categories for your real traffic, and reviewing the first batch of AI suggestions in **Entscheidungen**.

## Prerequisites

* An InboxMate account — [sign up for free](https://app.psquared.dev)
* A mailbox you can connect — Outlook / Microsoft 365 is the fastest path; email forwarding works with any provider

## Connect your Postfach

<Steps>
  <Step title="Log in and open Mein Profil">
    Go to [app.psquared.dev](https://app.psquared.dev) and sign in, then open **Einstellungen → Mein Profil → Meine Postfächer**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Click Postfach hinzufügen">
    Pick **Outlook / Microsoft 365** for one-click OAuth — sign in with your Microsoft account and approve the requested permissions. Works with both M365 work accounts and personal Outlook.com / Hotmail accounts.

    Prefer a different provider? **E-Mail-Weiterleitung** works with Gmail, IONOS, FastMail, or anything that supports a forwarding rule; **SMTP/IMAP** is available by contacting sales. See [Email integration](/user-guide/inbox/email-integration) for the full comparison.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Wait for the first sync">
    New mail starts syncing within about 2 minutes. You can trigger an immediate pull from the connection's settings popover if you don't want to wait.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  On a managed Microsoft 365 tenant, your admin may need to approve InboxMate once before anyone can connect — you'll see an "Administratorgenehmigung erforderlich" screen if so. See [Microsoft 365 admin consent](/user-guide/inbox/email-integration#microsoft-365-admin-consent) for both ways past it.
</Note>

## Confirm your categories

Right after your mailbox connects, InboxMate offers to set up categorization so the very first email that arrives is already sorted:

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="AI analysiert" icon="sparkles">
    InboxMate reads your recent mail and proposes categories that match what's actually in your inbox.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Vorlage wählen" icon="layout-template">
    Start from a hand-built template (Allgemein, Customer Success, Sales & Einkauf).
  </Card>

  <Card title="Überspringen" icon="forward">
    Skip for now — a careful default categorizer is created so nothing is left unsorted.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Then pick an **aggressiveness level** — how much InboxMate does on its own versus how much it only suggests:

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Vorsichtig (recommended to start)">
    Nothing fires automatically. Every action is suggested and waits in **Entscheidungen** for your click — the safest way to learn how InboxMate reads your mail before trusting it with anything.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Standard">
    Low-risk actions auto-fire (archiving Spam, opening tickets). Newsletter archiving is still only suggested, and anything customer-facing waits for you.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Aggressiv">
    Newsletter is auto-archived and obvious Spam is deleted automatically on top of Standard. Customer-facing replies are still never auto-sent from onboarding.
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

Click **Übernehmen** to save. InboxMate immediately runs the new categorizer over roughly your last 14 days of mail, so you see real categories and real drafts right away.

## Watch your first emails get sorted and drafted

Open your inbox — each conversation now shows a category badge, and any category configured to draft a reply already has one waiting, written from your knowledge base, the contact's history, and your signature.

## Review and approve in Entscheidungen

Open **Entscheidungen** in the sidebar. Every suggestion InboxMate made — a draft reply, an archive, a category assignment — sits here until a person acts on it:

* **Ja** — approve it as-is
* **Anders** — adjust it before it goes through
* **Ignorieren** — dismiss it

Approving isn't just clearing a queue — it's the training signal. Approve the same kind of action a few times and InboxMate will ask *"Ab jetzt automatisch?"* — that's your cue to graduate the rule to autopilot, or click **Weiter fragen** to keep reviewing it a while longer.

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Entscheidungen" icon="check-double" href="/user-guide/inbox/decisions">
    How the approval queue works, and what each action type looks like.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Learning" icon="brain" href="/user-guide/inbox/learning">
    How your edits and approvals actually change what InboxMate does next.
  </Card>

  <Card title="AI maturity" icon="graduation-cap" href="/user-guide/inbox/ai-maturity">
    Track how much trust InboxMate has earned, category by category.
  </Card>

  <Card title="AI models" icon="microchip" href="/user-guide/workspace/ai-models">
    Which models power drafting and categorization, and how to configure them.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>