Inbox
The Inbox gives you a thread-based view of all agent conversations in one place. While the Chat page is where you have conversations, the Inbox is where you monitor, triage, and respond to them.
What the inbox is
Section titled “What the inbox is”The Inbox shows conversation threads involving your agents — messages from team members, messages from external users via channels, and email or support tickets synced from connected mailboxes. It is your central hub for keeping track of what is happening across your organisation’s conversations.
Think of it like a shared email inbox, but for every channel at once. Each thread shows the full back-and-forth so you can review what was said, how the agent responded, assign it to someone, and reply if a person needs to step in.
Navigating the inbox
Section titled “Navigating the inbox”The inbox layout has three main areas:
Folder sidebar
Section titled “Folder sidebar”The left sidebar lists your folders — inbox, sent, archive, trash, and spam — along with any custom folders. Select a folder to see the threads it contains. For a connected Gmail or Outlook mailbox, the sent folder mirrors the provider’s sent mail, so what you sent from Sprigr and what you sent from the mail client line up in both places.
Thread list
Section titled “Thread list”The middle column lists the threads in the current folder, most recently active at the top. Each entry shows the subject or participant, a preview of the latest message, the time of the last activity, and indicators for unread, starred, snoozed, priority, assignment, and tags.
Thread detail
Section titled “Thread detail”When you select a thread, the full conversation opens on the right. You can read the history, see who is assigned, change the status, add tags, and reply.
Statuses
Section titled “Statuses”Each thread carries a status you set from the thread detail header:
- Open — active and needs attention.
- Resolved — handled, but kept visible.
- Closed — done.
Assignment
Section titled “Assignment”You can assign a thread to a team member from the thread detail header. Assigning makes it clear who owns the conversation, and you can filter the inbox to just your assigned threads.
Filtering
Section titled “Filtering”The inbox provides several ways to narrow what you see:
- By agent — Show only threads involving a specific agent. Each agent also has its own inbox view from its detail page.
- By channel — Filter to a single channel, such as a connected mailbox.
- By status — Show only Open, Resolved, or Closed threads.
- By date — Limit to today, the last 7 days, the last 30 days, or all time.
- Quick filters — Chips for Starred, Assigned, and Snoozed.
- Search — Type a query to search across threads, for example to find conversations with a particular person. Search covers message bodies and the text inside attachments, so you can find a file by what is written in it. You can scope a search to the sender, the subject, or keywords.
- Sort — Order the list newest or oldest first.
- Saved views — Save the current combination of filters as a named view with Save current view, give it a colour, and optionally share it with everyone on the team.
For synced email, the thread list also groups messages into category tabs — Primary, Promotions, Social, Updates, and Forums.
Working with threads
Section titled “Working with threads”Beyond reading, you can act on threads directly:
- Reply in line — Compose a reply from the thread detail. On email and messaging channels you can respond as the agent’s identity, or as an internal note. Replies and new messages on Gmail and Outlook can carry file attachments.
- Forward — Forward an email thread. When forwarding is not available for a thread, the inbox explains why.
- Star and snooze — Star a thread to keep it handy, or snooze it to hide it until a chosen time, when it returns to the top of the inbox.
- Priority and tags — Set a priority and add colour-coded tags to organise and route threads.
- Batch actions — Select multiple threads to move them, change their status, or star them in one go.
- Suggested replies — For many threads, the agent drafts a reply you can review, regenerate, edit, or send.
The thread list and open threads update in real time, so new messages and status changes appear without needing to refresh.
Display settings
Section titled “Display settings”The Display settings control in the inbox header adjusts the layout: the Reading pane position, Density, Text size, which messages to Show first, Single-row messages, and whether Hover actions appear on rows. Settings are per person.
Inbox settings
Section titled “Inbox settings”The inbox settings dialog groups the automation and composition tools into tabs:
- Rules — “When a message arrives and … do the following” rules that file, tag, assign, or otherwise handle mail automatically. Rules run in order and can stop further processing.
- Junk — Manage senders and patterns treated as junk.
- Categories — Override which category tab (Primary, Promotions, and so on) a sender lands in.
- Sweeps — Bulk clean-up actions by sender, for example archive everything from a newsletter.
- Quick steps — One-click combinations of actions you use often.
- Formatting — Default formatting for messages you compose.
- Signatures — Signatures added to outgoing mail.
- Templates — Saved message templates, which agents can also apply when drafting.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”- Chat — Start or continue a conversation with any agent.
- Channels — Connect agents to external messaging platforms to bring those conversations into your inbox.
- Agent Settings — Adjust agent behaviour if you notice issues in inbox conversations.
- Creating Agents — Set up new agents to handle areas that need coverage.