Product updates

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🎉 Initial Release

Welcome to Relay! Our first beta release brings you the core CLI and Python library for email management.

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🔧 CLI Commands

• relay accounts add - Connect your email accounts (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, custom IMAP)
• relay accounts ls - List all connected accounts
• relay messages ls - Fetch and list recent emails
• relay messages grep - Search your inbox with powerful text matching
• relay messages cat - Read full message content and metadata

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🐍 Python Library

• Import relay in your Python applications
• Programmatic access to all CLI functionality
• Clean, intuitive API for email operations
• Full IMAP/SMTP protocol support under the hood

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🔒 Security & Privacy

• Local credential storage using OS keychain (macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager, Linux Secret Service)
• No data sent to external servers
• Encrypted credential storage
• Multi-account support with isolated credential management

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📧 Email Provider Support

• Gmail (via App Passwords)
• Custom IMAP/SMTP servers

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🚀 Getting Started

Install with pip install relaycli and run relay accounts add to connect your first inbox. Check out our quickstart guide for a 5-minute setup walkthrough.