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Email for agents.

How AI agents get a real inbox, pay per call instead of by the seat, and send and receive email without a human in the loop. Guides, comparisons, and deep dives from the team building DimeBox.

All posts Agent Inbox Fundamentals Agentic Commerce Economics Comparisons & Alternatives Conceptual & Industry Pieces Framework & Tooling Integration Guides Receiving & Processing Inbound Email Security, Trust & Abuse Prevention Sending & Drafting Email With AI Agents Wallets & Card-Funded Payments x402 & HTTP 402 Fundamentals

Testing Agent Email Flows End-to-End on Base Sepolia

Before pointing a funded signer at mainnet, run DimeBox's full provision-send-receive cycle against Base Sepolia, where a mistake costs nothing.

Signing Your First EIP-3009 Payment Authorization in viem

The Node quickstart's payment wrapper hides the actual signature. This post peels it back: the EIP-712 domain, the EIP-3009 message fields, and signing both with viem directly.

How to Discover DimeBox's Live Prices Programmatically

Hardcoding a price into an agent's code is a bug waiting to happen. Here's how to read DimeBox's live, authoritative prices instead of guessing.

Using the DimeBox OpenAPI Spec to Generate a Typed Client

DimeBox's OpenAPI spec generates a fully typed client in TypeScript or Python, but it knows nothing about payments — here's how the two layers fit together.

Adding Email to an Autonomous Agent Loop

Adding email to a running agent loop means adding two actions with very different risk profiles — one free, one priced per call. Here's how to wire both in safely.

Building a Cron-Triggered Agent That Checks Its Own Inbox

Not every agent needs to run forever. Here's how to build a cron-triggered job that polls a DimeBox inbox, tracks what it's already seen, and acts only on what's new.

A Node.js Quickstart for Paying DimeBox With x402

A runnable Node.js walkthrough using @x402/fetch, @x402/evm, and viem to provision a DimeBox inbox, pay for a send, and read the reply back.

A Python Quickstart for Paying DimeBox With x402

A runnable Python walkthrough of DimeBox's full x402 flow: install the SDK, register a signer, handle the 402-sign-retry loop, and provision and send from a real inbox.

Wiring DimeBox Into a CrewAI Agent as a Tool

There's no official CrewAI integration for DimeBox. Here's how to build a BaseTool subclass that lets one role in a crew send and read email, while every other role stays locked out.

Giving a LangChain Agent Its Own Email Address

LangChain has no official DimeBox package. Here's how to wrap the plain HTTP and x402 payment flow as two tools an agent can call: one free to read mail, one paid to send it.