Hand the MailboxValidator emails to a companion
1 read operation and no writes: a companion can validate an email in MailboxValidator and hand back the emails with the source on each row.
Open the email. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the MailboxValidator afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing changed until you say so.
What it can do is exactly what MailboxValidator exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 1 operation, 1 read and no writes. In practice that means it can validate an email.
The MailboxValidator API stops at MailboxValidator. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Does it read the emails or ask you for them?
The only operation there is reads.
Your account, not a guess at it: a companion can validate an email, and the full list below is the whole list, with nothing inferred from MailboxValidator's documentation.
The emails are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the emails. A companion can hold that operation and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of MailboxValidator admin becomes a queue you review.
- Validate Email
Nothing writes back. So what moves the emails?
Through the screens you already use.
MailboxValidator exposes no write operation to a connected account, so a companion drives MailboxValidator in the session you are already signed into instead, filling the same forms you would to move a email, and anything consequential stops for an approval card before it happens.
That is the ordinary case rather than the exception. Most of what an email in MailboxValidator touches has no API pointed at it, and a companion is useful precisely because it does not need one.
Does the email sweep have to be asked for every time?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the MailboxValidator emails pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The product and engineering playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the engineering admin, the MailboxValidator emails sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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