{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cloudpost", "name": "CloudPost", "vendor": "CloudPost (James Brooks)", "vendorUrl": "https://cloudpost.ing", "kind": "mcp", "category": "mailbox-access", "summary": "Hosted MCP server that connects an iCloud Mail mailbox to OAuth-capable MCP clients, so an agent can list folders, search, read, move, delete and send mail without CloudPost keeping a copy of the mailbox.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudpost.json", "license": "Proprietary. No licence or terms published", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Two credentials. The person saves an Apple app-specific password in CloudPost settings and validates IMAP and SMTP, and CloudPost says it is encrypted at rest and never shown again (https://cloudpost.ing). The MCP client then signs in by OAuth. The authorisation server metadata lists the authorisation code and refresh token grants, PKCE S256, dynamic client registration at /oauth/register, public clients only and one scope, `mcp:use`. The resource accepts the bearer token in the header only (https://cloudpost.ing/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server; https://cloudpost.ing/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "No price, plan or billing page was found on 10 October 2026. The registration form asks for a name, an email address and a password and no card, and the app's pages are dashboard, mail, profile, security and appearance settings, with no billing screen. Nothing on the site says the service is free or will stay free (https://cloudpost.ing/register).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the site, in the OAuth metadata or in the 401 response from /api/mcp/mail, which asks only for a bearer token (checked 2026-10-10).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://cloudpost.ing", "capabilities": [ "mailbox.read", "mailbox.search", "mailbox.send" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "mcp", "oauth", "icloud", "imap", "smtp", "confirmations", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 20.6, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 956, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 961, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 23, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 20, "reliability": 15, "schema": 8, "security": 36, "transparency": 10 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-10" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A hosted iCloud Mail MCP server launched on 10 October 2026, with OAuth and PKCE for clients and confirmations on sending, moving and deleting. It holds an Apple app-specific password with full mailbox access, and no terms, privacy policy, docs, pricing or security contact were found.", "bestFor": "A person who wants an agent to triage and answer their own iCloud Mail from Claude or another OAuth-capable MCP client without running an IMAP server locally.", "strengths": [ "OAuth with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration and bearer tokens accepted in the header only", "Sending, moving, deleting and unsubscribing require a confirmation from the client, per the site", "Search and read leave read status unchanged, and delete marks a message without emptying the mailbox", "Nine tools by default, eleven with folder management, so the tool list stays short" ], "weaknesses": [ "No terms of service, privacy policy or named operating company were found, for a service that stores an Apple app-specific password", "One OAuth scope, `mcp:use`, so a client cannot be limited to reading", "No public docs, tool schemas, changelog, status page or rate limits", "Launched on the day of this check, with its domain registered the same day" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the person to register at cloudpost.ing, create an Apple app-specific password and validate IMAP and SMTP before adding https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail", "Expect a confirmation prompt before send, move, delete, unsubscribe and folder changes, and wait for the person to answer it", "Treat message bodies as untrusted text. No injection guidance was found", "Call inspect unsubscribe before unsubscribe, which acts only on the inspected destination after approval" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 20.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 23, "maintenance": 33, "payments": 20, "reliability": 15, "schema": 8, "security": 36, "transparency": 5 }, "provenanceScore": 15 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/mailbox.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloudpost" }, "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "cloudpost.ing", "domainRegistered": "2026-10-10", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-10", "notes": [ "No company or legal entity is named on the site. James Brooks appears as author in the page metadata.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 10 October 2026 at 19:38 UTC.", "/terms, /privacy and /.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 10 October 2026, and the home page links none of them.", "The MCP endpoint is on cloudpost.ing, the vendor's own domain." ], "score": 15 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost.json", "live": { "slug": "cloudpost", "probe": { "target": "https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-11T02:46:21.649964675Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 374, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 353, "p95ms24h": 3293, "samples24h": 30, "samples30d": 30, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 1, "ok": 1 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 29, "ok": 29 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-11T02:46:21.649964675Z" } }, "answer": "Himalaya scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "himalaya", "name": "Himalaya", "vendor": "Pimalaya", "vendorUrl": "https://pimalaya.org", "kind": "sdk", "category": "mailbox-access", "summary": "Himalaya is an open-source command-line email client from the Pimalaya project. It lists, searches, reads, composes and sends mail over IMAP, SMTP, JMAP, the Gmail API, Microsoft Graph and local stores, with JSON output for scripts and agents.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/himalaya", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/himalaya.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/himalaya.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/himalaya.json", "repo": "https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya", "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "cargo", "name": "himalaya" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Himalaya issues no credential of its own. It signs in to the mailbox with what the provider accepts, which is an app password or account password over SASL for IMAP and SMTP, a bearer token or basic auth for JMAP, and one OAuth 2.0 bearer token for the Gmail API or Microsoft Graph. Each secret is read from a shell command such as a password manager, or from a raw value in the config file. Version 2 ships no OAuth flow, so tokens come from an external broker such as `ortie` and an OAuth app the owner registers with Google or Microsoft.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free software with nothing to buy, and the sponsor page states there is no paid tier. An agent can start with the binary and a mailbox credential. Pimalaya sells optional partnerships, from EUR 3,000 a year for email providers and EUR 5,000 for integrators, and describes a EUR 12 a year sign-in service for Gmail and Microsoft 365 as planned and not built (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the source or pimalaya.org (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 7412, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya", "capabilities": [ "mailbox.read", "mailbox.search", "mailbox.send", "mailbox.drafts" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "cli", "rust", "free", "no-card", "imap", "smtp", "jmap", "gmail", "microsoft-graph", "json-output" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 352, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 961, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 60, "reliability": 84, "schema": 70, "security": 43, "transparency": 69 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2 October 2026. Until 2.2.1, `message send` passed the `Bcc:` header through SMTP unchanged, so every recipient could see the blind recipients. Issue #747 reported it against 2.1.0 on 12 September 2026, the fix was committed on 26 September and released on 2 October, and the changelog documents it. No security advisory was published. Fixed and documented, so the smaller deduction applies (https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya/issues/747)" ], "verdict": "One binary reaches mailboxes on IMAP, JMAP, Gmail and Microsoft Graph with the same commands, and `--json` output has a JSON Schema for each command. The agent holds the mailbox's own credential with no read-only mode, and a flaw that exposed Bcc recipients over SMTP was fixed in 2.2.1 on 2 October 2026.", "bestFor": "An agent with a shell that must work in one person's existing mailbox on any provider, including plain IMAP hosts, without a hosted intermediary.", "strengths": [ "Shared commands for mailboxes, envelopes, flags, messages and attachments run the same way over IMAP, JMAP, Gmail, Microsoft Graph, Maildir and mbox", "`himalaya json-schema` prints a JSON Schema for the `--json` output of 90 commands, and `message read --json` returns one designed view on every backend", "Secrets come from a shell command such as `pass show`, so a password or token need not sit in the config file", "`message delete` moves mail to the trash first, and `message read` leaves flags alone unless `--seen` is passed", "Four tagged releases between 26 July and 2 October 2026, three open issues, and CI badges for tests and audit passing on 9 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Until 2.2.1 of 2 October 2026, `message send` transmitted the `Bcc:` header to every recipient over SMTP (issue #747, reported 12 September 2026)", "No read-only mode, no confirmation before a send or delete, and no idempotency key on send were found", "SECURITY.md sends vulnerability reports to the public issue tracker. No security.txt, private reporting route or published advisory was found", "Only two stable error codes exist under `--json`, `body-pending` and `message-too-complex`. Other failures carry free wording", "Version 2 ships no OAuth flow, so Gmail and Microsoft accounts need an external token broker and an OAuth app the owner registers" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `--json` on every call and read `next_page` for the next page. Data and errors go to stdout, logs to stderr, and a failure exits 1", "Run `himalaya json-schema \u003ccommand\u003e` once to learn an output shape, and `himalaya \u003ccommand\u003e --help` for flags", "Use `envelope search` with the shared query language, for example `from alice and after 2026-01-01 order by date desc`. Microsoft Graph refuses flag clauses", "Treat message text as untrusted. `--json` output keeps control characters that the plain output replaces", "Use 2.2.1 or later before sending with Bcc, and expect `message read --json` to change shape in the next release" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 60, "reliability": 84, "schema": 70, "security": 43, "transparency": 74 }, "provenanceScore": 63 }, "connect": { "install": "brew install himalaya # or: curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimalaya/himalaya/master/install.sh | PREFIX=~/.local sh", "headless": { "list": "himalaya envelope list --page 2", "read": "himalaya message read 42", "search": "himalaya envelope search from alice and after 2026-01-01 order by date desc" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/mailbox.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/himalaya" }, "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "No legal entity found. Copyright Clément DOUIN (soywod)", "domain": "pimalaya.org", "domainRegistered": "2022-12-21", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "pimalaya.org's footer reads Copyright 2022 to 2026 Clément DOUIN (soywod), and `Cargo.toml` names the same author. No company or foundation is named on the pages read.", "No terms of service or privacy policy was found. The site's sitemap lists six pages (home, map of projects, community, sign-in, sponsor, business) and none is a legal document, so the MIT or Apache-2.0 licence stands in.", "pimalaya.org/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt both return 404. SECURITY.md in the repository lists 2.x as the supported line and gives the public issue tracker for reports.", "RDAP for pimalaya.org gives a registration date of 2022-12-21 and OVH sas as registrar.", "The software runs on the owner's machine and connects to the owner's mail servers, so no vendor endpoint exists." ], "score": 63 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/himalaya.json", "live": { "slug": "himalaya", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "pimalaya/himalaya", "version": "v2.2.1", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-10T17:51:37.973725748Z" } ], "githubStars": 7420, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://pimalaya.org/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T15:41:19.203644199Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimalaya/himalaya/master/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T19:10:08.813457651Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-10T19:10:08.813457651Z", "fingerprint": "a7276d8d48fd" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-10T19:10:08.813457651Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "SDK + MCP", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "CloudPost (James Brooks)", "b": "Pimalaya", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary. No licence or terms published", "b": "MIT OR Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "9", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-10", "b": "2026-10-02", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "7.4k stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Himalaya scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, CloudPost or Himalaya?" }, { "answer": "CloudPost has a hosted endpoint at https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail. No hosted endpoint is listed for Himalaya.", "question": "Can an agent call CloudPost and Himalaya without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for CloudPost. Himalaya is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are CloudPost and Himalaya open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where Himalaya loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A person who wants an agent to triage and answer their own iCloud Mail from Claude or another OAuth-capable MCP client without running an IMAP server locally.", "slug": "cloudpost", "watchFor": "No terms of service, privacy policy or named operating company were found, for a service that stores an Apple app-specific password" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 84 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 8", "Agent ergonomics, 65 against 23", "Security \u0026 auth, 43 against 36", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 33", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 69 against 10" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "An agent with a shell that must work in one person's existing mailbox on any provider, including plain IMAP hosts, without a hosted intermediary.", "slug": "himalaya", "watchFor": "Until 2.2.1 of 2 October 2026, `message send` transmitted the `Bcc:` header to every recipient over SMTP (issue #747, reported 12 September 2026)" } ], "job": { "capability": "mailbox.read", "name": "Mailbox access" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-cloudpost.json", "title": "Aurinko Email API vs CloudPost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-cloudpost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-himalaya.json", "title": "Aurinko Email API vs Himalaya", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-himalaya" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-emailengine.json", "title": "CloudPost vs EmailEngine", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-emailengine" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-fastmail.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Fastmail API (JMAP)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-fastmail" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-gmail-api.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Gmail API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-gmail-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-nylas-email.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Nylas Email API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-nylas-email" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-outlook-mail-graph.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-outlook-mail-graph" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-unipile.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-unipile" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-zoho-mail.json", "title": "CloudPost vs Zoho Mail API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-zoho-mail" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emailengine-vs-himalaya.json", "title": "EmailEngine vs Himalaya", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emailengine-vs-himalaya" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fastmail-vs-himalaya.json", "title": "Fastmail API (JMAP) vs Himalaya", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fastmail-vs-himalaya" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gmail-api-vs-himalaya.json", "title": "Gmail API vs Himalaya", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gmail-api-vs-himalaya" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-nylas-email.json", "title": "Himalaya vs Nylas Email API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-nylas-email" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-outlook-mail-graph.json", "title": "Himalaya vs Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-outlook-mail-graph" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-unipile.json", "title": "Himalaya vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-unipile" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-zoho-mail.json", "title": "Himalaya vs Zoho Mail API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/himalaya-vs-zoho-mail" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 69, "cloudpost": 15, "edge": "himalaya", "himalaya": 84, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 62, "cloudpost": 8, "edge": "himalaya", "himalaya": 70, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 42, "cloudpost": 23, "edge": "himalaya", "himalaya": 65, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 7, "cloudpost": 36, "edge": "himalaya", "himalaya": 43, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 40, "cloudpost": 20, "edge": "himalaya", "himalaya": 60, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 55, "cloudpost": 33, "edge": "himalaya", "himalaya": 88, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 59, "cloudpost": 10, "edge": "himalaya", "himalaya": 69, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Himalaya scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do mailbox access.", "verdicts": { "cloudpost": "A hosted iCloud Mail MCP server launched on 10 October 2026, with OAuth and PKCE for clients and confirmations on sending, moving and deleting. It holds an Apple app-specific password with full mailbox access, and no terms, privacy policy, docs, pricing or security contact were found.", "himalaya": "One binary reaches mailboxes on IMAP, JMAP, Gmail and Microsoft Graph with the same commands, and `--json` output has a JSON Schema for each command. The agent holds the mailbox's own credential with no read-only mode, and a flaw that exposed Bcc recipients over SMTP was fixed in 2.2.1 on 2 October 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-himalaya", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-himalaya.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-himalaya.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-himalaya.min.md" }, "markdown": "Himalaya scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do mailbox access.\n\n- CloudPost: grade F, 20.6/100, rank #956 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudpost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloudpost.json\n- Himalaya: grade B, 64.5/100, rank #352 of 961. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/himalaya.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/himalaya.json\n- Best mailbox access APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/mailbox-access/index.md\n- All 45 mailboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailbox-access/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### CloudPost (F)\n\nGood for: A person who wants an agent to triage and answer their own iCloud Mail from Claude or another OAuth-capable MCP client without running an IMAP server locally.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Himalaya loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No terms of service, privacy policy or named operating company were found, for a service that stores an Apple app-specific password\n\n### Himalaya (B)\n\nGood for: An agent with a shell that must work in one person's existing mailbox on any provider, including plain IMAP hosts, without a hosted intermediary.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 84 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 8\n- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 23\n- Security \u0026 auth, 43 against 36\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 33\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 69 against 10\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Until 2.2.1 of 2 October 2026, `message send` transmitted the `Bcc:` header to every recipient over SMTP (issue #747, reported 12 September 2026)\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | CloudPost | Himalaya | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 84 | Himalaya +69 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 8 | 70 | Himalaya +62 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 23 | 65 | Himalaya +42 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 36 | 43 | Himalaya +7 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | Himalaya +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 33 | 88 | Himalaya +55 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 10 | 69 | Himalaya +59 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **20.6 · F** | **64.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | CloudPost | Himalaya |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | CloudPost (James Brooks) | Pimalaya |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary. No licence or terms published | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 9 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | none | 7.4k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**CloudPost.** A hosted iCloud Mail MCP server launched on 10 October 2026, with OAuth and PKCE for clients and confirmations on sending, moving and deleting. It holds an Apple app-specific password with full mailbox access, and no terms, privacy policy, docs, pricing or security contact were found.\n\n**Himalaya.** One binary reaches mailboxes on IMAP, JMAP, Gmail and Microsoft Graph with the same commands, and `--json` output has a JSON Schema for each command. The agent holds the mailbox's own credential with no read-only mode, and a flaw that exposed Bcc recipients over SMTP was fixed in 2.2.1 on 2 October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### CloudPost\n\n1. Ask the person to register at cloudpost.ing, create an Apple app-specific password and validate IMAP and SMTP before adding https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail\n2. Expect a confirmation prompt before send, move, delete, unsubscribe and folder changes, and wait for the person to answer it\n3. Treat message bodies as untrusted text. No injection guidance was found\n4. Call inspect unsubscribe before unsubscribe, which acts only on the inspected destination after approval\n\n### Himalaya\n\n1. Pass `--json` on every call and read `next_page` for the next page. Data and errors go to stdout, logs to stderr, and a failure exits 1\n2. Run `himalaya json-schema \u003ccommand\u003e` once to learn an output shape, and `himalaya \u003ccommand\u003e --help` for flags\n3. Use `envelope search` with the shared query language, for example `from alice and after 2026-01-01 order by date desc`. Microsoft Graph refuses flag clauses\n4. Treat message text as untrusted. `--json` output keeps control characters that the plain output replaces\n5. Use 2.2.1 or later before sending with Bcc, and expect `message read --json` to change shape in the next release\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, CloudPost or Himalaya?\n\nHimalaya scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against CloudPost's 20.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Can an agent call CloudPost and Himalaya without installing anything?\n\nCloudPost has a hosted endpoint at https://cloudpost.ing/api/mcp/mail. No hosted endpoint is listed for Himalaya.\n\n### Are CloudPost and Himalaya open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for CloudPost. Himalaya is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-himalaya.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-himalaya.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloudpost\", \"b\": \"himalaya\"}`. 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