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Tokens are kept in the OS keychain and local files under `~/.email-agent-mcp/`. For Gmail, a UseJunior-run broker on Vercel holds the OAuth client secret and relays code exchange and token refresh; mail itself goes straight to Google.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free, Apache-2.0 software run locally with npx. It uses the person's existing Microsoft 365 or Gmail account; there is nothing to buy from UseJunior.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the repository or README (checked 2026-11-06).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 27, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 394, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/UseJunior/email-agent-mcp#readme", "registryName": "io.github.UseJunior/email-agent-mcp", "capabilities": [ "mailbox.read", "mailbox.search", "mailbox.send", "mailbox.drafts" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "mcp", "mcp-registry", "oauth", "microsoft-graph", "gmail", "typescript", "approvals", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 397, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 60, "reliability": 50, "schema": 79, "security": 67, "transparency": 42 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A local MCP server for a person's own Outlook or Gmail mailbox with careful defaults, a read-only scope profile, send allowlists, gated deletes and annotated tools, released weekly under Apache-2.0. It is pre-1.0 from one maintainer, Gmail lacks label and move support, and Gmail sign-in relies on UseJunior's hosted broker.", "bestFor": "A person who wants an agent working in their own Outlook mailbox, or reading and drafting in Gmail, with guardrails.", "strengths": [ "The `observe` profile requests read-only Microsoft scopes and drops every write tool", "Send allowlists, delete disabled by default and sanitised errors that strip keys and paths", "Tools carry readOnlyHint and destructiveHint annotations and are typed", "Apache-2.0, CI with tests and coverage, semgrep and semver tags with GitHub Releases", "Listed in the official MCP registry as io.github.UseJunior/email-agent-mcp, current at 0.5.0" ], "weaknesses": [ "Pre-1.0, and every commit is by one maintainer", "On Gmail, labelling, flagging, marking read and moving return NOT_SUPPORTED", "Gmail sign-in and token refresh pass through a UseJunior-hosted broker that holds the client secret", "No audit log of what the agent did beyond the mailbox's own history", "Changing from `full` to `observe` on an existing mailbox doesn't shrink the OAuth token's scopes" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start with `get_mailbox_status`, then `list_emails` or `search_emails` before reading whole threads", "Ask the person to set the send allowlist before planning any `send_email` or `reply_to_email`", "Prefer `create_draft` and let the person send, unless they asked for sending", "Expect NOT_SUPPORTED for label, flag, mark-read and move on Gmail, and don't request `gmail.modify` to work around it", "Don't plan deletes; they need an operator environment variable and a caller flag" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 65.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 79, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 60, "reliability": 50, "schema": 79, "security": 67, "transparency": 62 }, "provenanceScore": 22, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npx -y email-agent-mcp", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add email-agent-mcp -- npx -y email-agent-mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "email-agent-mcp": { "args": [ "-y", "email-agent-mcp" ], "command": "npx", "type": "stdio" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/mailbox.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/email-agent-mcp" }, "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "usejunior.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/UseJunior/email-agent-mcp/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Published by UseJunior; the README links usejunior.com, and SECURITY.md asks for reports to the maintainer's usejunior.com address with acknowledgement within 3 business days.", "No terms or privacy policy apply to the local server; the Gmail OAuth broker is a UseJunior-hosted service whose own terms weren't found.", "The repository's CHANGELOG.md points to GitHub Releases as the canonical changelog.", "GitHub's API refused our requests for its rate limit on 6 November 2026, so stars, issues and release pages weren't read; history and tags come from a shallow clone." ], "score": 22 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/email-agent-mcp.json", "live": { "slug": "email-agent-mcp", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "UseJunior/email-agent-mcp", "version": "v0.5.0", "released": "2026-11-05", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:23:57.05382018Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.UseJunior/email-agent-mcp", "version": "0.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "email-agent-mcp", "version": "0.5.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:23:56.286985184Z" } ], "githubStars": 7, "npmWeekly": 394, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://usejunior.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:16.157898877Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" } }, "answer": "email-agent-mcp scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)'s 57.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "outlook-mail-graph", "name": "Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)", "vendor": "Microsoft", "vendorUrl": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/mail-api-overview", "kind": "http-api", "category": "mailbox-access", "summary": "Mail endpoints of Microsoft Graph for Outlook, Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online mailboxes. An app reads, searches, drafts, sends and files messages over REST with OAuth tokens from Microsoft Entra ID.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outlook-mail-graph", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outlook-mail-graph.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outlook-mail-graph.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outlook-mail-graph.json", "dns": "outlook-mail-graph.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-javascript", "license": "MIT (SDKs)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@microsoft/microsoft-graph-client" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "msgraph-sdk" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 tokens from Microsoft Entra ID, after a person registers an app. No app review by Microsoft was found for mail permissions. Delegated permissions (Mail.ReadBasic, Mail.Read, Mail.ReadWrite, Mail.Send) act as a signed-in user and need only that user's consent. Application permissions reach every mailbox in a tenant, need admin consent, and can be limited to chosen mailboxes with RBAC for Applications in Exchange Online. Personal Outlook.com accounts work with delegated permissions.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "Mail calls aren't metered. The only metered Graph API is SharePoint and OneDrive `assignSensitivityLabel` at $0.00185 a call (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/metered-api-list). A work mailbox needs an Exchange Online or Microsoft 365 licence, and Microsoft's plan price page refused our reader on 8 October 2026. A free personal Outlook.com account lets an agent start without a contract. The Microsoft 365 developer programme sandbox is free only to members who qualify, such as Visual Studio subscribers. The Mail MCP server needs a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence.", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Graph mail reference or the metered API list (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 10, "popularity": { "githubStars": 835, "npmWeekly": 2882852, "pypiWeekly": 1578201, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/mail-api-overview", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-metadata/master/openapi/v1.0/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "mailbox.read", "mailbox.search", "mailbox.send", "mailbox.drafts", "mailbox.sync" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "oauth", "openapi", "webhooks", "typescript", "python", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 778, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 35, "reliability": 67, "schema": 93, "security": 71, "transparency": 76 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": -14, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-06-16 and 2026-10-15: two security fixes merged into msgraph-sdk-javascript, a token leak through URL userinfo host confusion (5438ae9, 16 June) and stripping the Cookie header on cross-origin redirects (38867d1, written 13 October and merged through pull request 2007 on 15 October). The repository's package.json says 3.0.8, but no 3.0.8 tag exists and on 1 November 2026 npm still serves 3.0.7 from September 2023, with no advisory. A fix to the listing's own package in no release takes -3, the two folded into one term (https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-javascript/commit/38867d1, https://registry.npmjs.org/@microsoft/microsoft-graph-client/latest)", "2026-03-19: CVE-2026-26137, Exchange Online elevation of privilege (SSRF, CVSS 9.9, Critical, needs a signed-in attacker), fully mitigated by Microsoft, not disclosed or exploited. -1 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-26137)", "2026-06-04: CVE-2026-48579, Exchange Online information disclosure (improper authorisation, CVSS 9.1, Critical, no sign-in needed), mitigated by Microsoft. -2 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-48579)", "2026-06-04: CVE-2026-47655, Microsoft Graph information disclosure (CVSS 6.5, Critical by MSRC, needs a signed-in attacker), mitigated by Microsoft. -1 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-47655)", "2026-06-18: CVE-2026-48582, Exchange Online elevation of privilege (missing authorisation, CVSS 9.6, Critical, needs a signed-in attacker), mitigated by Microsoft. -1 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-48582)", "2026-07-23: CVE-2026-56191, Exchange Online tampering (improper authentication, CVSS 10.0, Critical, no sign-in needed), mitigated by Microsoft. -2 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-56191)", "2026-07-23: CVE-2026-49159, Microsoft Graph information disclosure (CVSS 6.5, Critical by MSRC, needs a signed-in attacker), mitigated by Microsoft. -1 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-49159)", "2026-08-20: CVE-2026-65801, Exchange Online elevation of privilege (SSRF, CVSS 10.0, Critical, no sign-in needed), mitigated by Microsoft. -2 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-65801)", "2026-10-22: CVE-2026-96185, Exchange Online remote code execution (stack overflow, CVSS 7.5, Critical, needs a signed-in attacker), mitigated by Microsoft. -1 (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-96185)" ], "verdict": "Delegated permissions split reading without bodies (Mail.ReadBasic), full reading, writing and sending, and delta queries keep a local copy in step. sendMail takes no idempotency key and returns 202 before delivery. Microsoft published eight Critical, already mitigated CVEs for Exchange Online and Graph in 2026, and the JavaScript client's two security fixes remain unreleased.", "bestFor": "Agents working in Microsoft 365 or Outlook.com mailboxes that need scoped reading, drafting, sending and incremental sync.", "strengths": [ "Mail.ReadBasic reads messages without body, preview or attachments, and Mail.Send is separate from Mail.ReadWrite", "Delta queries per folder and change notifications with `missed` and `subscriptionRemoved` lifecycle events", "`$select`, `$top` (1 to 1,000, default 10), `bodyPreview` and `Prefer: outlook.body-content-type=\"text\"` keep responses small", "Published policy of at least 24 months' notice before a v1.0 API is removed", "Covers work accounts and personal Outlook.com accounts, with every reference page also served as Markdown" ], "weaknesses": [ "sendMail has no idempotency key and answers 202 Accepted before delivery, so a retried send can go out twice", "Four concurrent requests and 10,000 requests per 10 minutes for each app and mailbox pair", "No prompt-injection guidance found in the mail reference or the Mail MCP reference, though message bodies come from outside senders", "The npm JavaScript client is 3.0.7 from September 2023, without the June and October 2026 security fixes", "Eight Critical service CVEs for Exchange Online and Graph between March and October 2026, all mitigated by Microsoft" ], "agentNotes": [ "Create a draft with POST /me/messages, then send it with /send. A retried sendMail can send the message twice", "Send `Prefer: IdType=\"ImmutableId\"` on every request, or message IDs change when a message moves folder", "Use `$select` and `Prefer: outlook.body-content-type=\"text\"`. List messages returns HTML bodies and 10 messages a page by default", "Honour `Retry-After` on 429 and keep to four parallel calls per mailbox. Batches of up to 20 requests are throttled per request", "Treat message bodies as untrusted input, and ask for Mail.ReadBasic when the task doesn't need bodies" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 81, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 35, "reliability": 67, "schema": 93, "security": 71, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 87, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl \"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages?\\$select=from,subject\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MS_GRAPH_TOKEN\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/mailbox.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/outlook-mail-graph" }, "sameCompany": [ "azure-openai", "azure-foundry-fine-tuning", "azure-ai-content-safety", "azure-speech-to-text", "azure-text-to-speech", "microsoft-agent-framework", "microsoft-execution-containers", "microsoft-entra-agent-id", "azure-key-vault", "bing-grounding", "azure-document-intelligence", "azure-devops-mcp", "microsoft-learn-mcp", "tokeneconomizer", "playwright-mcp", "azure-mcp", "azure-maps", "azure-translator", "microsoft-graph-calendar", "azure-blob-storage", "onedrive-sharepoint", "microsoft-teams", "dynamics-365-sales", "copilot-studio-mcp", "power-automate", "foundry-local", "microsoft-decision-1", "microsoft-advertising-api", "microsoft-excel-graph", "microsoft-graph-people", "mage-vl-cowork" ], "area": "communication", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Microsoft Corporation", "domain": "microsoft.com", "domainRegistered": "1991-05-02", "domainNote": "The endpoint is on graph.microsoft.com. microsoft.com publishes a security.txt, but it passed its Expires date on 2026-09-23 and still carried it on 2026-11-01.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/microsoft-apis/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement", "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.microsoft", "changelog": "https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/changelog", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "status.cloud.microsoft answered robots.txt with an empty 401 on 1 November 2026, so it is treated as blocked and wasn't read; on 8 October it needed JavaScript to show anything.", "The Microsoft APIs terms of use say they were last updated in October 2025.", "privacy.microsoft.com answered our reader with 403 on 8 October 2026, so the privacy URL follows the Microsoft Graph calendar listing and wasn't reread.", "RDAP for microsoft.com gives a registration date of 1991-05-02." ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outlook-mail-graph.json", "live": { "slug": "outlook-mail-graph", "probe": { "target": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:24.434852845Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 24, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 5, "p95ms24h": 47, "samples24h": 238, "samples30d": 7473, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 197, "ok": 197 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-javascript", "version": "3.0.7", "released": "2023-09-19", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:54:00.915959499Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@microsoft/microsoft-graph-client", "version": "3.0.7", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:54:00.322959343Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "msgraph-sdk", "version": "1.65.0", "released": "2026-10-22", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:54:00.759703505Z" } ], "githubStars": 836, "npmWeekly": 3242649, "pypiWeekly": 1661789, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-10-27T16:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:02:01.196666056Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "microsoft.com", "registered": "1991-05-02", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/microsoft.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:14:19.336136409Z" }, "github": { "repo": "microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-javascript", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:06:51.445549725Z", "stars": 836, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-28T20:16:39Z", "openIssues": 79, "openPRs": 40, "issuesOpened90d": 3, "issuesClosed90d": 1, "prsMerged90d": 7, "ci": { "branch": "dev", "runs": 6, "success": 6, "failure": 0, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-23T18:59:51Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 24, "medianDays": 5.6 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:24.434852845Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 34, "category": "transparency", "leads": "outlook-mail-graph", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Apache-2.0 with a LICENSE file (30). SECURITY.md says tokens and mail are handled locally over stdio with no network listener, and the broker README says mail never reaches the broker and refresh tokens aren't stored. The broker has no published privacy policy (22 of 30). No deprecation policy (0). No telemetry was found in the README or package manifests, and none is stated either way (10 of 20). Total 62.", "b": "Closed service under the Microsoft APIs terms of use, last updated October 2025, with MIT SDKs (15). Microsoft 365's retention page says deleted customer content is removed within 30 days and within 180 days of a subscription ending, and the Exchange Online residency page names where mailbox content is stored. The privacy statement refused our reader and we didn't read the data protection addendum (20). A written policy of at least 24 months' notice before a v1.0 API or version is retired (versioning page re-read on 1 November), and dated notices such as the Exchange Web Services retirement (20). Storage geographies for mailbox content are listed by country, but we couldn't read a sub-processor list (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 42, "b": 76 } }, { "by": 25, "category": "payments", "leads": "email-agent-mcp", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Free, Apache-2.0 software with nothing to buy, scored 20 + 20 + 20 by the self-hosted rule. No payment protocol (0 of 40). Total 60.", "b": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Mail endpoints aren't on the metered API list, so calls carry no charge, but a work mailbox needs an Exchange Online or Microsoft 365 licence and the plan price page refused our reader (15). Personal Outlook.com accounts work with delegated Mail permissions at no cost and no card (20). A person registers an app in Entra and, for application permissions, an admin consents (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 35 } }, { "by": 17, "category": "reliability", "leads": "outlook-mail-graph", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded with the lines for local packages and stdio MCP servers. Installs from the official npm package `email-agent-mcp` with npx, CI runs on Node 20 (20). A CI workflow with Vitest tests, Codecov and a spec-coverage gate; the run results weren't readable through GitHub's API that day, so partial (20 of 25). Open crash and regression issues couldn't be read because GitHub's API refused our requests for its rate limit (0, unchecked). Semver tags from v0.1.7 to v0.5.0 and auto-categorised GitHub Releases as the changelog, with no breaking changes marked in what we read (10 of 15). Pre-1.0 (0). Total 50.", "b": "Graded on the v1.0 REST API. A public Microsoft service health page at status.cloud.microsoft (20), per the 8 October check. On 1 November its robots.txt answered an empty 401, so the host is treated as blocked and wasn't read, as for dynamics-365-sales. No readable components or incident history (5). Outlook limits are published at 10,000 requests per 10 minutes, four concurrent requests and 150 MB of uploads per 5 minutes for each app and mailbox pair (throttling page updated 17 September 2026, re-read on 1 November), and Exchange Online caps sending at 30 messages a minute and 10,000 recipients a day (15). 429 responses carry `Retry-After`, with backoff guidance and SDK retry handlers, but sendMail has no idempotency key and returns 202 Accepted before delivery, so a retried send can duplicate (10 of 15). The Online Services SLA (November 2026 edition, read on 1 November) pays credits from 25 per cent below 99.9 per cent uptime for Exchange Online, the paid service every work mailbox needs, but measures downtime as users unable to send or receive email with Outlook Web Access, plus email delivery time, and has no Microsoft Graph entry. Read as microsoft-teams reads the same document's Teams level, measured on the user-facing service and not naming the API (7 of 10). Mail endpoints are generally available on v1.0 (10). 20+5+15+10+7+10 = 67." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "schema", "leads": "outlook-mail-graph", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Tools are defined with typed input schemas that the MCP SDK publishes as JSON Schema (25). README in five languages, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and GEMINI.md; no llms.txt, which a local server doesn't need (5 of 10). The README's tool table marks each tool read, write or destructive and states provider limits, such as Gmail deletes removing drafts only (15 of 20). Typed inputs with options such as `list_style` (12 of 15). Setup examples per client and documented error behaviour, such as NOT_SUPPORTED on Gmail and sanitised errors (10 of 15). Semver tags and GitHub Releases (12 of 15). Total 79.", "b": "OpenAPI for all of Graph v1.0 in microsoftgraph/msgraph-metadata (25). No llms.txt on learn.microsoft.com, but every reference page we asked for with `Accept: text/markdown` came back as Markdown (10). Reference pages state the purpose of each call, list permissions from least to most privileged and name limits such as the `$filter` and `$orderby` ordering rule and the 1,000-result cap on `$search` (17). Typed properties and enumerations in the metadata, though sendMail also accepts a base64 MIME blob (13). An example request and response on each page, a shared error format and a status code table, with few mail-specific error codes listed (13). v1.0 and beta, a dated changelog and a monthly What's new page updated on 8 October 2026 (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 79, "b": 93 } }, { "by": 8, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "email-agent-mcp", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "v0.5.0 was tagged and published on 5 November 2026 (30). Nine npm releases in the 90 days from 8 August, v0.3.0 to v0.5.0 (20). Pull requests up to #234 merged in the history, all by the one maintainer; issue responses couldn't be read through GitHub's API that day (10 of 25). io.github.UseJunior/email-agent-mcp is in the official MCP registry with 0.5.0 marked latest (15). CI, commitlint, semgrep and Codecov workflows (9 of 10). Total 84.", "b": "msgraph-sdk-python v1.65.0 on 22 October 2026 (30). Five Python SDK tags since 3 August (v1.61.0 on 5 August to v1.65.0), counted half, plus dated changelog feed entries to 6 October 2026 and What's new entries for August, September and October 2026, so at least three dated changes in 90 days (20). A public changelog, a What's new page updated on 31 October 2026 and SDK issue trackers, but security fixes merged into the JavaScript client on 16 June and 15 October 2026 still haven't reached npm, where 3.0.7 from September 2023 is current (10). Current SDKs in most languages, with the JavaScript client the exception (10). Active tagging on the Python repository, none of it reaching the JavaScript package (6). 30+20+10+10+6 = 76." }, "scores": { "a": 84, "b": 76 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "UseJunior", "b": "Microsoft", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Your plan", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "MIT (SDKs)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "27", "b": "10", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.UseJunior/email-agent-mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-05", "b": "2026-10-22", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2025-10-01", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-09-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "394 npm/wk", "b": "835 stars, 2.9M npm/wk, 1.6M PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "email-agent-mcp scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)'s 57.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, email-agent-mcp or Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)?" }, { "answer": "Both use an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do email-agent-mcp and Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) need an API key?" }, { "answer": "email-agent-mcp runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) has a hosted endpoint at https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0.", "question": "Can an agent call email-agent-mcp and Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "email-agent-mcp is open source (Apache-2.0). 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-gmail-api.json", "title": "email-agent-mcp vs Gmail API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-gmail-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-himalaya.json", "title": "email-agent-mcp vs Himalaya", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-himalaya" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-nylas-email.json", "title": "email-agent-mcp vs Nylas Email API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-nylas-email" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-unipile.json", "title": "email-agent-mcp vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-unipile" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-zoho-mail.json", "title": "email-agent-mcp vs Zoho Mail API", "url": 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"json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nylas-email-vs-outlook-mail-graph.json", "title": "Nylas Email API vs Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nylas-email-vs-outlook-mail-graph" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outlook-mail-graph-vs-unipile.json", "title": "Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outlook-mail-graph-vs-unipile" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outlook-mail-graph-vs-zoho-mail.json", "title": "Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) vs Zoho Mail API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/outlook-mail-graph-vs-zoho-mail" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 17, "edge": "outlook-mail-graph", "email-agent-mcp": 50, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "outlook-mail-graph": 67, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 14, "edge": "outlook-mail-graph", 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Microsoft published eight Critical, already mitigated CVEs for Exchange Online and Graph in 2026, and the JavaScript client's two security fixes remain unreleased." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-outlook-mail-graph", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-outlook-mail-graph.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-outlook-mail-graph.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-outlook-mail-graph.min.md" }, "markdown": "email-agent-mcp scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)'s 57.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do mailbox access.\n\n- email-agent-mcp: grade B, 65.9/100, rank #397 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/email-agent-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/email-agent-mcp.json\n- Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph): grade C, 57.8/100, rank #778 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/outlook-mail-graph.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/outlook-mail-graph.json\n- Best mailbox access APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/mailbox-access/index.md\n- All 55 mailboxes comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mailbox-access/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### email-agent-mcp (B)\n\nGood for: A person who wants an agent working in their own Outlook mailbox, or reading and drafting in Gmail, with guardrails.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 76\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) loses 14 points for them\n\nWatch for: Pre-1.0, and every commit is by one maintainer\n\n### Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) (C)\n\nGood for: Agents working in Microsoft 365 or Outlook.com mailboxes that need scoped reading, drafting, sending and incremental sync.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 67 against 50\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 93 against 79\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 76 against 42\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: sendMail has no idempotency key and answers 202 Accepted before delivery, so a retried send can go out twice\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) +34\n\n- email-agent-mcp (42): Apache-2.0 with a LICENSE file (30). SECURITY.md says tokens and mail are handled locally over stdio with no network listener, and the broker README says mail never reaches the broker and refresh tokens aren't stored. The broker has no published privacy policy (22 of 30). No deprecation policy (0). No telemetry was found in the README or package manifests, and none is stated either way (10 of 20). Total 62.\n- Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) (76): Closed service under the Microsoft APIs terms of use, last updated October 2025, with MIT SDKs (15). Microsoft 365's retention page says deleted customer content is removed within 30 days and within 180 days of a subscription ending, and the Exchange Online residency page names where mailbox content is stored. The privacy statement refused our reader and we didn't read the data protection addendum (20). A written policy of at least 24 months' notice before a v1.0 API or version is retired (versioning page re-read on 1 November), and dated notices such as the Exchange Web Services retirement (20). Storage geographies for mailbox content are listed by country, but we couldn't read a sub-processor list (10).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: email-agent-mcp +25\n\n- email-agent-mcp (60): Free, Apache-2.0 software with nothing to buy, scored 20 + 20 + 20 by the self-hosted rule. No payment protocol (0 of 40). Total 60.\n- Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) (35): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Mail endpoints aren't on the metered API list, so calls carry no charge, but a work mailbox needs an Exchange Online or Microsoft 365 licence and the plan price page refused our reader (15). Personal Outlook.com accounts work with delegated Mail permissions at no cost and no card (20). A person registers an app in Entra and, for application permissions, an admin consents (0).\n\n### Reliability: Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) +17\n\n- email-agent-mcp (50): Graded with the lines for local packages and stdio MCP servers. Installs from the official npm package `email-agent-mcp` with npx, CI runs on Node 20 (20). A CI workflow with Vitest tests, Codecov and a spec-coverage gate; the run results weren't readable through GitHub's API that day, so partial (20 of 25). Open crash and regression issues couldn't be read because GitHub's API refused our requests for its rate limit (0, unchecked). Semver tags from v0.1.7 to v0.5.0 and auto-categorised GitHub Releases as the changelog, with no breaking changes marked in what we read (10 of 15). Pre-1.0 (0). Total 50.\n- Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) (67): Graded on the v1.0 REST API. A public Microsoft service health page at status.cloud.microsoft (20), per the 8 October check. On 1 November its robots.txt answered an empty 401, so the host is treated as blocked and wasn't read, as for dynamics-365-sales. No readable components or incident history (5). Outlook limits are published at 10,000 requests per 10 minutes, four concurrent requests and 150 MB of uploads per 5 minutes for each app and mailbox pair (throttling page updated 17 September 2026, re-read on 1 November), and Exchange Online caps sending at 30 messages a minute and 10,000 recipients a day (15). 429 responses carry `Retry-After`, with backoff guidance and SDK retry handlers, but sendMail has no idempotency key and returns 202 Accepted before delivery, so a retried send can duplicate (10 of 15). The Online Services SLA (November 2026 edition, read on 1 November) pays credits from 25 per cent below 99.9 per cent uptime for Exchange Online, the paid service every work mailbox needs, but measures downtime as users unable to send or receive email with Outlook Web Access, plus email delivery time, and has no Microsoft Graph entry. Read as microsoft-teams reads the same document's Teams level, measured on the user-facing service and not naming the API (7 of 10). Mail endpoints are generally available on v1.0 (10). 20+5+15+10+7+10 = 67.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) +14\n\n- email-agent-mcp (79): Tools are defined with typed input schemas that the MCP SDK publishes as JSON Schema (25). README in five languages, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and GEMINI.md; no llms.txt, which a local server doesn't need (5 of 10). The README's tool table marks each tool read, write or destructive and states provider limits, such as Gmail deletes removing drafts only (15 of 20). Typed inputs with options such as `list_style` (12 of 15). Setup examples per client and documented error behaviour, such as NOT_SUPPORTED on Gmail and sanitised errors (10 of 15). Semver tags and GitHub Releases (12 of 15). Total 79.\n- Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) (93): OpenAPI for all of Graph v1.0 in microsoftgraph/msgraph-metadata (25). No llms.txt on learn.microsoft.com, but every reference page we asked for with `Accept: text/markdown` came back as Markdown (10). Reference pages state the purpose of each call, list permissions from least to most privileged and name limits such as the `$filter` and `$orderby` ordering rule and the 1,000-result cap on `$search` (17). Typed properties and enumerations in the metadata, though sendMail also accepts a base64 MIME blob (13). An example request and response on each page, a shared error format and a status code table, with few mail-specific error codes listed (13). v1.0 and beta, a dated changelog and a monthly What's new page updated on 8 October 2026 (15).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: email-agent-mcp +8\n\n- email-agent-mcp (84): v0.5.0 was tagged and published on 5 November 2026 (30). Nine npm releases in the 90 days from 8 August, v0.3.0 to v0.5.0 (20). Pull requests up to #234 merged in the history, all by the one maintainer; issue responses couldn't be read through GitHub's API that day (10 of 25). io.github.UseJunior/email-agent-mcp is in the official MCP registry with 0.5.0 marked latest (15). CI, commitlint, semgrep and Codecov workflows (9 of 10). Total 84.\n- Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) (76): msgraph-sdk-python v1.65.0 on 22 October 2026 (30). Five Python SDK tags since 3 August (v1.61.0 on 5 August to v1.65.0), counted half, plus dated changelog feed entries to 6 October 2026 and What's new entries for August, September and October 2026, so at least three dated changes in 90 days (20). A public changelog, a What's new page updated on 31 October 2026 and SDK issue trackers, but security fixes merged into the JavaScript client on 16 June and 15 October 2026 still haven't reached npm, where 3.0.7 from September 2023 is current (10). Current SDKs in most languages, with the JavaScript client the exception (10). Active tagging on the Python repository, none of it reaching the JavaScript package (6). 30+20+10+10+6 = 76.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | email-agent-mcp | Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 67 | Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 93 | Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 81 | Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 71 | Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 35 | email-agent-mcp +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 76 | email-agent-mcp +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 76 | Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) +34 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -14 | |\n| **Total** | | **65.9 · B** | **57.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | email-agent-mcp | Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | UseJunior | Microsoft |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Free | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT (SDKs) |\n| Tools exposed | 27 | 10 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.UseJunior/email-agent-mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-11-05 | 2026-10-22 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-10-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 394 npm/wk | 835 stars, 2.9M npm/wk, 1.6M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### email-agent-mcp\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)\n\n- -8.6 on 1 November 2026 (B to C): correction\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**email-agent-mcp.** A local MCP server for a person's own Outlook or Gmail mailbox with careful defaults, a read-only scope profile, send allowlists, gated deletes and annotated tools, released weekly under Apache-2.0. It is pre-1.0 from one maintainer, Gmail lacks label and move support, and Gmail sign-in relies on UseJunior's hosted broker.\n\n**Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph).** Delegated permissions split reading without bodies (Mail.ReadBasic), full reading, writing and sending, and delta queries keep a local copy in step. sendMail takes no idempotency key and returns 202 before delivery. Microsoft published eight Critical, already mitigated CVEs for Exchange Online and Graph in 2026, and the JavaScript client's two security fixes remain unreleased.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### email-agent-mcp\n\n1. Start with `get_mailbox_status`, then `list_emails` or `search_emails` before reading whole threads\n2. Ask the person to set the send allowlist before planning any `send_email` or `reply_to_email`\n3. Prefer `create_draft` and let the person send, unless they asked for sending\n4. Expect NOT_SUPPORTED for label, flag, mark-read and move on Gmail, and don't request `gmail.modify` to work around it\n5. Don't plan deletes; they need an operator environment variable and a caller flag\n\n### Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)\n\n1. Create a draft with POST /me/messages, then send it with /send. A retried sendMail can send the message twice\n2. Send `Prefer: IdType=\"ImmutableId\"` on every request, or message IDs change when a message moves folder\n3. Use `$select` and `Prefer: outlook.body-content-type=\"text\"`. List messages returns HTML bodies and 10 messages a page by default\n4. Honour `Retry-After` on 429 and keep to four parallel calls per mailbox. Batches of up to 20 requests are throttled per request\n5. Treat message bodies as untrusted input, and ask for Mail.ReadBasic when the task doesn't need bodies\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, email-agent-mcp or Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)?\n\nemail-agent-mcp scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph)'s 57.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do email-agent-mcp and Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) need an API key?\n\nBoth use an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call email-agent-mcp and Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) without installing anything?\n\nemail-agent-mcp runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) has a hosted endpoint at https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0.\n\n### Are email-agent-mcp and Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph) open source?\n\nemail-agent-mcp is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Outlook Mail (Microsoft Graph).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-outlook-mail-graph.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-outlook-mail-graph.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"email-agent-mcp\", \"b\": \"outlook-mail-graph\"}`. 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