<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/feed.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Agent-Native Email - quest log</title><description>A public quest to master email with a self-hosted, agent-native inbox and outbox stack, plus real token cost accounting.</description><link>https://thrivinghenry.com/</link><item><title>The site you&apos;re reading is the launch</title><link>https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-10-the-site-you-are-reading/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-10-the-site-you-are-reading/</guid><description>The quest hub went public - this page, the receipts, the real token costs, all of it. Two days after the mail server was born, the story of building it became the launch surface itself.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Outbound went live the day the host said no</title><link>https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-09-outbound-live/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-09-outbound-live/</guid><description>The hosting provider refused to open direct outbound - so the relay path designed on day one took over. Messages queued for 23 hours flushed in seconds, and the whole stack scored 10/10 on mail-tester. The foundation workstream is complete.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Four pages designed and built in a day</title><link>https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-09-four-pages-in-a-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-09-four-pages-in-a-day/</guid><description>The launch surface went from route inventory to four reviewed page redesigns in one day - drafted as design cards, edited in a shared design pane, shipped as pull requests. 30 routes went dark; 13 pages remain, crawl-audited clean.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The server is alive</title><link>https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-09-the-server-is-alive/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-09-the-server-is-alive/</guid><description>My thrivinghenry.com mailbox now receives on hardware I control: MX cutover done, first real message delivered in under a second, and an EA agent triaging at 100% on its golden-set eval.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The trailhead is mapped</title><link>https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-08-trailhead-mapped/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://thrivinghenry.com/projects/agent-native-email#2026-07-08-trailhead-mapped/</guid><description>Design spec approved before any building: a self-hosted OpenBSD mail server, a newsletter relaunch on owned rails, this quest hub, and a five-seat virtual agent team - with success criteria declared up front.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>