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Get new email notifications on WhatsApp

To get email notifications on WhatsApp, connect your Gmail or Outlook to Agent Sonic and tell it what you're waiting for — “tell me when Oren replies”. Sonic checks your inbox every 15 minutes (every 5 if you ask), and as soon as matching mail arrives it messages you a short summary in the chat. Watch one sender, a subject, or all new mail.

Plan: Free trial, Basic & Pro · Setup time: 1 minute

Step by step

Connect your mailbox first: Gmail takes about 3 minutes with a Google app password (see “Connect Gmail to WhatsApp”), Outlook about a minute with /mail connect outlook and a Microsoft sign-in (see “Connect Outlook or Hotmail to WhatsApp”). Already connected? Send /mail to check.
In your private chat with Sonic, say what you're waiting for: “Tell me when Oren replies” or “Let me know if the bank emails me about the loan.”
To hear about every new email, not just one sender: “Check every 5 minutes for new mail and summarize it.”
Sonic confirms in one line how often it checks. If the email you're waiting for is already in your inbox, it tells you right away.
When matching mail arrives, you get a 📬 chat message: who wrote, what they want, and what you need to do.
Answer in the same chat, for example “reply that Thursday works”. Sonic shows you the draft and sends it only after you confirm.
To see or stop your watches, ask: “What are you watching for me?” or “Stop watching Oren.”

What Sonic can do

Watch for a person, a company or a subject, like “mail from Dana about the lease”, using your mailbox's own search (Gmail's or Outlook's).
Watch for any new mail in your inbox and summarize each batch as it arrives.
Check every 15 minutes by default, as often as every 5 minutes, or less often if you prefer (“once an hour is enough”).
Summarize up to 5 new emails in one chat message, in your language, and count the rest.
Report the way you asked: “just tell me the subject” or “summarize what he wrote”.
Keep up to 5 watches at once, each until you stop it or for a set time (“for the next two weeks”, up to 90 days).
Hold a notification if WhatsApp is briefly down and send it once it's back, so no email is skipped.

What it can't do (yet)

Send email on its own. A watch only reads your mail; a reply is always shown to you first and sent only after you confirm.
Alert you the very second an email lands. It checks on a schedule, every 5 minutes at the fastest.
Run in WhatsApp groups. Watches live in your private chat.
Open attachments in a notification. Ask for them and Sonic sends you the files in the chat.
Watch Yahoo, iCloud or other providers. It's Gmail and Outlook for now.
Keep watching after you disconnect: /mail disconnect removes your watches too. After a free trial ends, watches pause until you subscribe.

Try asking

“Tell me when Oren replies.”
“Let me know if I get anything from the tax office.”
“Tell me when the contract from Acme arrives, and what they wrote.”
“Check every 5 minutes for new mail and summarize it.”
“Watch for mail from my landlord for the next two weeks.”
“What are you watching for me?”
“Stop watching Oren.”

Commands

/mail — connection status and setup steps
/mail disconnect — remove the mailbox connection and all your watches

Questions

Can WhatsApp notify me when I get a new email?

Not on its own: WhatsApp doesn't connect to your inbox. With Agent Sonic you connect Gmail or Outlook once and say what to watch for. Sonic checks every few minutes and sends you a chat message on WhatsApp with a short summary as soon as matching mail arrives.

How quickly will I hear about a new email?

Within about 15 minutes by default. Ask for faster and Sonic checks every 5 minutes, the fastest it goes. You can also ask for less often, up to once a day.

Does Sonic read all of my email to do this?

No. Each check searches only for what you asked about, and Sonic reads a message only when a new one matches. It doesn't keep copies of your email; the summary it sends stays in your chat like any message.

What's the difference between a mail watch and a scheduled update?

A watch waits for new mail and messages you when it arrives. A scheduled update runs at set times, like “every evening at 8, tell me if Dana emailed today”, and suits a daily digest. For anything that needs to reach you within minutes, use a watch.

How do I stop a watch?

Say “stop watching Oren”, or ask “what are you watching?” and pick the one to stop. A watch with an end date stops by itself, and /mail disconnect removes all of them.

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