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Shared inbox

One queue for every mailbox your brand answers from

Stop forwarding the sponsor reply that landed in office@ and hoping someone picks it up. Gmail and Microsoft 365 mailboxes land in one queue with an owner and a status. Your mail stays with its provider; CommsOperator keeps the working copy your team acts on.

CommsOperator's shared inbox puts Gmail and Microsoft 365 mailboxes into one queue. Gmail is a direct, mailbox-by-mailbox production beta: OAuth, provider listing, and a durable partial import are live-verified, while full quota-resume and the first production Gmail send remain verification gates. Microsoft supports individual and organization-wide consent, including shared mailboxes. Teams, assisted LinkedIn Page messages, and website chat can join the queue.

Capabilities

What changes for your team

Direct Gmail mailbox sync

Authorize one named Gmail or Google Workspace mailbox through Google OAuth. The direct Gmail API path has live-verified provider access and a durable partial import. Full quota-resume and the first production Gmail send remain verification gates.

Microsoft 365 mailbox sync

New mail is in the shared queue within seconds of reaching the mailbox. Nobody refreshes and nobody waits for the next sync: the Microsoft 365 connection is push, not polling. Connect one mailbox with your own Microsoft sign-in, or every mailbox in the company with one approval from IT.

Shared and delegated mailboxes

Connect partnerships@ or office@ once, without handing anyone its password. Each shared mailbox is authorised explicitly through the organization connector. Then decide who answers from it, who can help, and who only gets to read: owner, delegate, or read-only.

AI triage and drafting

The inbox sorts itself before you open it: needs a person now, can wait, or junk (Focused, Other, Spam). Reply drafts use your own help articles and training notes, not the open internet. Per channel, AI is off, drafts for review, or answers on its own for the web chat widget only.

Rules, assignment, and status flow

The right person owns the thread before anyone asks who has it. Route by channel, sender, domain, subject, keyword, or attachment, then assign, prioritise, and resolve. A resolved thread reopens itself when the customer writes back. Spam never reopens anything.

Microsoft Teams in the loop

The Teams channel that needs to know hears about it, with the buttons to act. Notifications arrive as adaptive cards, a Teams bot handles mentions and digests, and chat threads stay linked to the conversation or record they are about.

LinkedIn Page inbox, assisted

Messages to your LinkedIn Page land in the same queue as email. A signed-in operator runs the browser bridge, replies are drafted in the app, and a person sends every one. There is no unattended automation against LinkedIn, and there will not be.

Proof

Numbers from the production instance and behaviour checked against the code. No projections, no testimonials.

  • 40+ Microsoft 365 mailboxes across Tech Family Ventures brands are answered from one instance today
  • 24 brand workspaces run on that instance, each with its own mailboxes, members, and access rules
  • New mail appears in seconds, not on the next sync: the Microsoft 365 connection is push, not polling
  • Access is decided per mailbox: who answers, who helps, who only reads

Limits, stated plainly

What this module does not do today, and what to do about it. If one of these is a blocker, you know before you commit, not after.

  • Gmail is a production beta connected one named mailbox at a time. Full initial-sync recovery after a Google quota pause and the first production Gmail send are not yet live-verified. Google organization-wide admin consent and Gmail campaign sequences are not available today.
  • WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, X, Telegram, and SMS are not supported: nothing sends or receives on them. A few of these types are still selectable in channel settings, left over from an integration retired in July 2026, and they are inert. We ship only channels with a sanctioned API path.
  • LinkedIn is assisted, not automated: a person sends every reply, and a signed-in operator keeps the bridge running.
Connects with

Works with what you already run

Gmail / Google Workspace (direct Gmail API)
Microsoft 365 / Outlook (Microsoft Graph)
Microsoft Teams
LinkedIn Pages (assisted bridge)
Website chat widget
Website forms

Frequently asked questions

Does CommsOperator replace Outlook?

No. Gmail stays in Google and Outlook mail stays in Microsoft 365. CommsOperator syncs a working copy through the provider's official API so a team can share ownership, statuses, and AI drafts on top of it. Stop using CommsOperator and nothing has moved.

Can we connect a shared mailbox without giving anyone its password?

Yes. IT grants the organization connector admin consent once, and each shared mailbox is authorised explicitly after that. No mailbox password is ever typed into CommsOperator or stored by it.

Which channels are actually supported?

Email on Gmail or Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, LinkedIn Page messages through an operator-run browser bridge, the embeddable website chat widget, and website forms. Gmail uses a direct Google API connection one mailbox at a time. WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, X, Telegram, and SMS are not supported: a few remain selectable in channel settings from a retired integration, but nothing sends or receives on them.

Can AI reply without a human?

Only on the website chat widget, and only when you switch it on. There it answers from your knowledge base with citations and hands off to a person when it should. Email and LinkedIn replies are drafted for review and sent by a person.

How soon is a new mailbox useful?

For Microsoft 365, push delivery puts new mail in the queue within seconds after connection. Gmail is currently a production beta using scheduled sync: provider access and a durable partial import are verified, while full quota-resume remains a live verification gate.

See shared inbox on your own data

Tell us what you run and we will be straight about the fit. Private beta. A person reads every request.