Documents & Collaboration · EdgeMail
Your firm's email, self-hosted and tied to your matters — with AI triage and discovery-ready search.
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maya@chenokafor.com
📥 INBOX
✎ Drafts
➤ Sent
⚑ Flagged
🗃 Archive
⚠ Junk
Case Files
▾ 26-JH-Civil Law-002
Sent
▸ 26-JH-Trusts-001
▸ Harborview HOA — UD
Legal
🛡 Privileged
Client Correspondence
THIS WEEK · 1
Notice of Change of Address 🖇
Hello, Please find attached the Notice of… · Wed
OLDER · 49
Fw: EX PARTE — Notification of Service 🖇
Notification of Service — 26CV004182
Re: Request for extension of time
Re: Meet & confer — RFP Set Two
Jordan Hale <jordan.hale@mailbay.com> · To: Maya Chen · Wed 8/12/2026 11:10 AM
✓ Auto-filed in EdgeDocs📄 MC-040-ChangeofAddress… · 384 KB
✓ Auto-filed in EdgeDocs
26-JH-Civil Law-002: Hale v. Northstar Logistics — Alameda · Hon. A. OyelaranJordan Hale🛡 PrivilegeUse sender formatting ◯
Please find attached the Notice of Change of Address for your records.
Best,
Jordan Hale
This communication is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed…
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The problem
Privileged client communication is the most sensitive data a firm holds — and most of it sits in a cloud mailbox you don't operate, mixed in with everything else, hard to tie to a matter and harder to produce in discovery.
The life of a message
Arrived. Filed & ruled. Asked. Sent as the firm.
Every other legal tool integrates with an inbox it doesn’t control. EdgeLex ships the inbox — and the server underneath it. Every screen below is the real product.
01 · Arrived
Mail arrives already on the record.
A message linked to a matter is linked automatically — on arrival and on send — and flows straight into that matter's Communications tab. The folder rail carries the firm's Case Files taxonomy, the reading pane shows the linked state at a glance (matter, client, privilege), and relinking is one click when the machine guesses wrong.
The other end of the pipe →maya@chenokafor.com
📥 INBOX
✎ Drafts
➤ Sent
⚑ Flagged
🗃 Archive
⚠ Junk
Case Files
▾ 26-JH-Civil Law-002
Sent
▸ 26-JH-Trusts-001
▸ Harborview HOA — UD
Legal
🛡 Privileged
Client Correspondence
THIS WEEK · 1
Notice of Change of Address 🖇
Hello, Please find attached the Notice of… · Wed
OLDER · 49
Fw: EX PARTE — Notification of Service 🖇
Notification of Service — 26CV004182
Re: Request for extension of time
Re: Meet & confer — RFP Set Two
Jordan Hale <jordan.hale@mailbay.com> · To: Maya Chen · Wed 8/12/2026 11:10 AM
✓ Auto-filed in EdgeDocs📄 MC-040-ChangeofAddress… · 384 KB
✓ Auto-filed in EdgeDocs
26-JH-Civil Law-002: Hale v. Northstar Logistics — Alameda · Hon. A. OyelaranJordan Hale🛡 PrivilegeUse sender formatting ◯
Please find attached the Notice of Change of Address for your records.
Best,
Jordan Hale
This communication is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed…
↩ Reply↩ Reply All↪ Forward🖇 Print + PDFs
02 · Filed & ruled
Attachments become documents. Rules preview before they move.
An attachment on a linked message is auto-filed in EdgeDocs — a governed DMS document in the matter's folder before anyone downloads anything. And mail rules are built like a lawyer would want them: match sender, domain, or subject; move into a Case Files folder; and preview exactly what will move before anything does. The context menu's LEGAL section — Mark as Privileged, Link to Matter, Link to Client — is one right-click away.
Where attachments land →Preview matching messages before anything moves.
When mail matches
◉ All mail involving d.ostrander@ostranderllp.comDaniel Ostrander <d.ostrander@ostranderllp.com>
○ Sender only: d.ostrander@ostranderllp.com
○ From domain ostranderllp.com
○ Subject contains “Notification of Service — 26CV004182”
Move to folder
Case Files > 26-JH-Civil Law-002 ▾
Apply toExistingFutureBothPreviewApply rule
Message menu
↩ Reply
↪ Forward
🗑 Delete
🗃 Archive
⚙ Create rule
👤 Show all from sender
🌐 Show all from domain
📂 Move to ▸
Legal
🛡 Mark as Privileged
🗂 Link to Matter
👤 Link to Client
03 · Asked
“Did opposing counsel respond yet?” — answered with receipts.
Lex lives inside the client with an explicit scope: this message, this thread, or the whole mailbox. Ask whether the other side ever responded and the answer is a grounded negative — the last outbound message with its timestamp, the latest inbound with its timestamp, and the observation that it predates your question. A finding, not a guess.
The same Lex, everywhere →ScopeMessageThreadMailbox🕓 History · Close
Maya, no — I found no response from Northstar’s counsel after your most recent email to Daniel Ostrander: “Proof of service,” sent August 12, 2026 at 11:14 a.m.
The latest incoming email from Mr. Ostrander is “Fw: EX PARTE — Notification of Service,” received July 20, 2026 at 3:27 p.m., which predates your August 12 email.
⌁ Tokens Input: 66,580 Output: 453 Total: 67,033
Ask Lex to research, review, draft, or explain… (type / for commands)
🎙 ／ CommandsFirm default · pinned ▾➤
04 · Sent as the firm
Identities, signatures, and outbound that links itself.
Compose from any of the firm's sending identities, each with its own configured signature — templates or Draft with AI. Outbound mail links to the matter the same way inbound does, so the Sent folder inside Case Files is part of the record, not a personal archive.
New Message● Saved— ✕
From: Maya Chen <maya@chenokafor.com> ▾
Maya Chen <mchen@chenokafor-litigation.com>
To: d.ostrander@ostranderllp.com Cc Bcc
Subj: Meet and confer — RFP Set Two responses
Maya Chen
Chen & Okafor LLP
(510) 555-0119 · maya@chenokafor.com
This communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law.
SignaturesEach sending address has its own signature.Templates✦ Draft with AI
Sending identities
maya@chenokafor.com · ☆ Default · EdgeLex Postfix · Signature configured
mchen@chenokafor-litigation.com · EdgeLex Postfix · Signature configured
The EdgeMail Server
Yes, your own mail server. Here’s why that’s not scary.
Running a mail server has a deserved reputation, and lawyers are right to be wary — deliverability, spam, uptime, none of it is your job. So it isn’t your job here: EdgeMail ships as an operated part of the platform, a standards-based stack configured, monitored, and updated with your deployment — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC handled, no shell required. In return: your mail is never scraped by an advertising company, storage rides your own bucket or disk with no practical mailbox limit, and for a firm of three or more the per-seat mail tax disappears — Exchange Online runs $12.50 to $35 per user per month, forever; EdgeMail bills like infrastructure, not headcount. Legal hold, server-side privilege, and SOC2 / ABA / GDPR audit reports come standard.
S1 · Operated
A dashboard that admits degradation is one you can trust.
Tenant health at a glance — mailboxes, message flow, storage, queue workers with dead-letter visibility — and a status banner that says "some systems experiencing issues" when they are. Database, SMTP, IMAP, and identity latencies on the board, checked just now. Monitoring that tells the truth is the whole point of operating your own mail.
✉ EdgeMail Admin
Overview
Dashboard
Recipients
Mailboxes
Distribution Groups
Resources
Contacts
Organization
Domains
Sharing Policies
Security
Blocked Senders
Rejected Mail
Compliance
Compliance Center
Evidence Indexing
Mail flow
Mail Flow
Migration
DashboardMonitor tenant health, storage, and activity⟳ Refresh
⚠ Some systems experiencing issues · Last checked just now — the dashboard tells you; it never pretends.
Active Mailboxes
5 total
Messages Sent (24h)
Messages Received (24h)
Pending Outbound
0 deferred
☁ Storage Usage0.9%
450.55 MB used50 GB total
🖴 System Health⚠ Degraded
Database4msOperational
SMTP Server10msOperational
IMAP Server11msOperational
Storage4msDegraded — 86%, 129.1 GB free
Keycloak387msOperational
Inbound QueueWorker Active
Waiting
Active
Failed
DLQ
Completed: 7 · Concurrency: 5 · 0
Outbound QueueWorker Active
Waiting
Active
Failed
DLQ
Completed: 378 · Concurrency: 5 · 4 failed · 3 DLQ
S2 · Provisioned
Mailboxes, quotas, groups — and one for Lex.
The firm's mailboxes with per-mailbox quotas and status, distribution groups on the same console, and two details worth noticing: the AI assistant has its own governed mailbox, and a departed associate's mailbox sits suspended with its record intact — offboarding without spoliation.
Distribution groups ride the same console: accounting@chenokafor.com · Distribution · Active — plus per-mailbox quotas, and a suspended mailbox keeps its record for the file.
S3 · Migrated
Getting off Exchange is a job queue, not a leap of faith.
Import history from Outlook (PST/OST/MSG/EML), Gmail, or any IMAP source. Jobs run with content-hash deduplication — a rerun reconciles instead of double-importing — and anything that fails lands in a visible dead-letter queue. Thousands of messages in, nothing silently dropped.
⤒ Migration⊕ New job
Import historical email from Outlook (PST/OST/MSG/EML), Gmail (Takeout/Workspace/IMAP), and other sources.
🕓 Jobs⊕ Create⚠ Dead Letter
Content-hash deduplication makes reruns reconciliation, not double-import — 2,929 duplicates recognized and skipped on the big job above. Failures land in a dead-letter queue you can see, not a void.
$ edgemail status
● mail stackPostfix · Dovecot · Rspamd — operated with the deployment
● protocolsSMTP / IMAP / POP3 / Sieve — any standards client works
● identityzero-password: Keycloak SSO, XOAUTH2 on every protocol
● domainschenokafor.com — MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC verified
● privilegeenforced at the server, not the client
● matter linkingon arrival and on send → the Matter's Communications tab
● attachment filing→ EdgeDocs, into the matter's folder taxonomy
● storagepluggable: your cloud bucket, your disk — no practical limit
● compliancelegal hold · audit log · SOC2 / ABA / GDPR report generators
● isolationone firm per tenant — no shared mail infrastructure
# Your mail. Your domains. Your hardware — or your cloud, your keys.
The stack, in one status call — and the full deployment story lives on the architecture page →
The difference
The inbox is the record.
Half of every case lives in email. A webmail giant treats that as content to scan; a practice-management “integration” treats it as someone else’s data to sync. EdgeMail treats it as what it is — the matter’s correspondence record — linked on arrival, filed on receipt, privileged at the server, and stored inside the firm’s own walls.
The security posture →Linked on arrival
Matter, client, and privilege attach automatically — inbound and outbound — and feed the matter's Communications tab.
Never scraped
No advertising company reads the firm's mail. The server, the storage, and the audit trail live in your deployment.
No per-seat mail tax
Three lawyers or thirty — mail bills like infrastructure, not headcount. Legal hold and compliance reports included.
Capabilities
What it does
Self-hosted mail system
The firm's own mailboxes and domains (SMTP / IMAP), with spam filtering and DKIM / SPF / DMARC controls. No cloud mailbox provider required.
Matter-linked communications
Link emails to matters and clients, auto-file at the folder level, search within a matter, and surface communications on the matter timeline.
Legal privilege marking
Mark messages and threads as attorney-client or work-product, with legal-hold and retention tracking.
AI email features
Focused / other inbox classification, thread summarization focused on deadlines, action items, and agreements, task extraction from threads, smart-reply drafts (draft only, never auto-sent), and AI matter / client / folder suggestions.
Discovery-ready
Full-text and semantic search, thread reconstruction, and one-click export of attachments into the DMS as documents.
Admin
Custom-domain onboarding with DNS verification, mailbox and quota management, distribution groups, address routing, and PST / archive migration with canary review.
In your control
Email bodies and attachments are stored in firm-controlled storage with multi-tenant isolation and a full admin audit log. Note: connecting external personal accounts (Gmail / Outlook / IMAP) is not supported — migration means importing PST / archives into EdgeMail.
Related
Works with
Lex AI & Agents
Lex isn't one application among many. It's the horizontal layer connecting matters, documents, email, messages, meetings, deadlines, and billing — grounded in your data, gated by your approvals.
EdgeMessage
One universal inbox across every EdgeLex surface: direct messages, team threads, document conversations, and Lex as an @mentionable teammate.
Matters
Matter lifecycle, conflict checks, risk scoring, related-proceeding tracking, and a matter workspace the AI understands.
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