Handle a personal mailbox daily with a local model
The poster runs Hermes with free local models via Ollama on their own GPU, using a daily cron job to process their personal mailbox.
What they did
In the thread, the concrete mailbox example appears in a comment, not the main post. The commenter says they switched Hermes to a different base model with very clear requirements, worked closely with Claude Code to build the setup, and now runs it daily as a cron job to GTD their personal mailbox; they also mention using an MCP server built via Claude Code, with the person shaping requirements and development.
How it went
The reported result is simply that it worked well enough for daily use on their personal mailbox and they were extending it to travel. The same commenter says they see Hermes more as a chat or operational agent than a development agent.
Worth knowing
The main catch is model choice and setup effort: the thread frames free local Ollama models as fine for simple cron-job automations, but not for heavy coding, and says going local takes a lot of configuration.
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using a daily cron job to process their personal mailbox
their personal mailbox
The same commenter says they see Hermes more as a chat or operational agent than a development agent.
worked closely with Claude Code to build the setup
The commenter says they switched Hermes to a different base model with very clear requirements, worked closely with Claude Code to build the setup, and now runs it daily as a cron job to GTD their personal mailbox
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- Sep 1, 2026
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- Oct 16, 2026