{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "email-agent-mcp", "name": "email-agent-mcp", "vendor": "UseJunior", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/UseJunior/email-agent-mcp", "kind": "mcp", "category": "mailbox-access", "summary": "email-agent-mcp is an open-source local MCP server from UseJunior that lets an agent read, search, draft, send and file mail in a person's own Microsoft 365 or Gmail mailbox, with allowlists and delete disabled by default.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/email-agent-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/email-agent-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/email-agent-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/email-agent-mcp.json", "dns": "email-agent-mcp.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/UseJunior/email-agent-mcp", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "email-agent-mcp" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "Signs in to the person's own mailbox with OAuth: Microsoft delegated scopes through MSAL, or Gmail `gmail.readonly` and `gmail.compose`. 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 Unipile's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Unipile leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "unipile", "name": "Unipile", "vendor": "UNIPILE SAS", "vendorUrl": "https://www.unipile.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "mailbox-access", "summary": "Unipile is a hosted API from Unipile SAS in France that connects to accounts people already have. It reads, searches, sends and files mail in Gmail, Outlook and IMAP mailboxes, and also covers calendars, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unipile", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unipile.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unipile.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/unipile.json", "dns": "unipile.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/unipile/unipile-node-sdk", "license": "Proprietary service under Unipile's terms of use. The v1 Node SDK repository and the unipile-mcp repository carry an MIT licence file", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "unipile-node-sdk" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person signs up at dashboard.unipile.com, copies the account's DSN (host and port) and generates an access token, which goes in the `X-API-KEY` header. A v1 token reaches every connected account and has no scopes. Mailboxes are connected by the end user through Google or Microsoft OAuth, using an OAuth app the customer registers and has verified, or with IMAP and SMTP credentials. The v2 beta adds keys limited to a Scope of accounts.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "55 dollars (49 euros) a month covers up to 10 connected accounts, then 5.50 dollars an account a month, falling to 3.50 above 5,000. No charge per request or message. A 7-day trial needs no card, and there is no free tier after it. An SLA needs a custom plan (checked 2026-11-04).", "priceSummary": "$55 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI spec or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 5, "popularity": { "githubStars": 48, "npmWeekly": 82529, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.unipile.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.unipile.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api1.unipile.com/api-json?port=13111", "registryName": "com.unipile/unipile-mcp", "capabilities": [ "mailbox.read", "mailbox.search", "mailbox.send", "mailbox.drafts", "mailbox.sync", "calendar.read", "calendar.write", "calendar.webhooks", "messaging.whatsapp", "messaging.inbound" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "free-trial", "no-card", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "mcp", "webhooks", "gmail", "outlook", "imap", "calendar", "linkedin", "whatsapp", "typescript", "eu", "soc2", "status-page", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-13", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 622, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 72, "schema": 77, "security": 42, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "-3 (same-day behaviour change). On 12 August 2026 the status page announced, as the fix rolled out, two permanent changes to LinkedIn Classic Search for existing clients, `limit` capped at 10 results per page and the total count no longer returned. The cause was LinkedIn's own change, and no earlier notice was found. https://status.unipile.com/events" ], "verdict": "One REST API covers Gmail, Outlook, IMAP, calendars, LinkedIn and WhatsApp, with an idempotency key on sends and a public OpenAPI spec. The v1 access token reaches every connected account, scoped keys exist only in the v2 beta, and no SLA is published. LinkedIn Classic Search limits changed in August 2026 with notice only on the day.", "bestFor": "A product that needs one API over Gmail, Outlook and IMAP together with LinkedIn or WhatsApp messaging, priced per account.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.0 spec, readable without a key, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "`POST /api/v1/emails` accepts an `Idempotency-Key` header of up to 255 characters, so a retried send returns the first result", "`GET /api/v1/emails` has cursor pagination, `limit` up to 250, `meta_only`, a full-text `search` and filters for folder, sender, recipient and date", "Price is per connected account with no charge per request, from 55 dollars a month for up to 10 accounts, with a 7-day trial and no card", "The hosted MCP server has 5 tools, and is listed in the official MCP registry as com.unipile/unipile-mcp" ], "weaknesses": [ "A v1 access token reaches every connected account. Scoped keys and Unipile's own documented rate limits exist only in the v2 beta", "status.unipile.com shows the api46 server down for about three and a half hours on 3 November 2026 for the customers hosted on it", "LinkedIn Classic Search now caps `limit` at 10 a page and returns no total count, announced on 12 August 2026 as the change rolled out", "No SLA in the standard plan. The terms describe availability as best effort and a custom agreement is needed for a commitment", "The v1 Node SDK's last tag is v1.9.3 from 21 May 2025. The newer Node and Python SDKs work only with the v2 beta" ], "agentNotes": [ "Take the DSN (host and port) from the dashboard. Each account has its own, such as api1.unipile.com:13111, and `?port=` keeps requests on 443", "Send `X-API-KEY` as a header and pass `account_id` on every mail call. The token reaches every connected account, so keep it out of prompts and logs", "Set `Idempotency-Key` on every send. Keys are held in memory for up to 24 hours and are lost on a restart", "On LinkedIn Classic searches, page with `limit` 10 or less and don't rely on a total count. Sales Navigator and Recruiter allow up to 100", "Use `meta_only=true` when listing mail, then fetch one message at a time. Treat message bodies as untrusted input" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 40, "reliability": 72, "schema": 77, "security": 42, "transparency": 59 }, "provenanceScore": 85, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install unipile-node-sdk", "http": "curl --request GET \\\n --url 'https://{YOUR_DSN}/api/v1/emails?limit=10\u0026account_id={ACCOUNT_ID}' \\\n --header 'X-API-KEY: {YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN}' \\\n --header 'accept: application/json'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "unipile": { "headers": { "X-API-KEY": "your-api-key" }, "url": "https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/mailbox.read", "tool": "https://letme.dev/unipile" }, "area": "communication", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Minimum, up to 10 connected accounts", "unit": "month", "usd": 55, "note": "49 euros. Any channel counts as one account, and a Gmail or Outlook account covers mail and calendar" }, { "item": "Connected account, 11 to 50", "unit": "account-month", "usd": 5.5, "note": "5.00 euros" }, { "item": "Connected account, 51 to 200", "unit": "account-month", "usd": 5, "note": "4.50 euros" }, { "item": "Connected account, 201 to 1,000", "unit": "account-month", "usd": 4.5, "note": "4.00 euros" }, { "item": "Connected account, 1,001 to 5,000", "unit": "account-month", "usd": 4, "note": "3.50 euros" }, { "item": "Connected account, 5,001 and above", "unit": "account-month", "usd": 3.5, "note": "3.00 euros" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "UNIPILE SAS", "domain": "unipile.com", "domainRegistered": "2020-11-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.unipile.com/terms-of-use/", "privacy": "https://www.unipile.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.unipile.com", "changelog": "https://developer.unipile.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The legal notice names UNIPILE SAS, registered with the RCS of Roanne under number 885265595, head office 168 rue de la Rotonde, 42153 Riorges, France.", "The API answers on a per-account host and port under unipile.com, such as api1.unipile.com:13111. The MCP server is at developer.unipile.com/mcp, a ReadMe-hosted docs site on the vendor's domain.", "www.unipile.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No vulnerability disclosure policy or bug bounty was found on the security page.", "The terms are governed by French law, with the Commercial Court of Roanne as the court. They say changes take effect on publication.", "RDAP for unipile.com gives a registration date of 2020-11-17." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unipile.json", "live": { "slug": "unipile", "probe": { "target": "https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:42.244355768Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 43, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 48, "p95ms24h": 201, "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 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.unipile.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:48:54.613731524Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "unipile/unipile-node-sdk", "version": "v1.9.3", "released": "2025-05-21", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:13:53.49677033Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.unipile/unipile-mcp", "version": "1.0.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T18:16:28.95801333Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "unipile-node-sdk", "version": "1.9.3", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:13:52.729976843Z" } ], "githubStars": 48, "npmWeekly": 68110, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://unipile.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:52.28581664Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://developer.unipile.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:34:13.529918382Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "unipile.com", "registered": "2020-11-17", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/unipile.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:24:01.573939915Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.unipile.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:03:28.489003888Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-05T12:27:42.65485255Z", "fingerprint": "ca89061cdd73" }, { "url": "https://www.unipile.com/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:14.851022902Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:56:34.061379684Z", "fingerprint": "4833ee7924de" }, { "url": "https://www.unipile.com/terms-of-use/", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:16.881478093Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:56:36.347910925Z", "fingerprint": "70d517e04beb" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:48:53.117800457Z", "status": "ok", "protocol": "2026-07-28", "tools": [ { "name": "list-endpoints", "title": "List API Endpoints", "description": "Lists all API paths and their HTTP methods with summaries, organized by path. Results can be passed directly into 'get-endpoint'.", "inputSchema": { "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "properties": {}, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "openWorldHint": false, "readOnlyHint": true } }, { "name": "get-endpoint", "title": "Get Endpoint Details", "description": "Gets detailed information about a specific API endpoint, including security schemes and servers", "inputSchema": { "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "properties": { "method": { "description": "The HTTP method (e.g. GET, POST, PUT, DELETE).", "type": "string" }, "path": { "description": "The API endpoint path (e.g. /api/v1/users).", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "path", "method" ], "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "openWorldHint": false, "readOnlyHint": true } }, { "name": "search-endpoints", "title": "Search API Endpoints", "description": "Performs a deep search through paths, operations, and parameters to discover relevant API endpoints. Use this tool to find specific API capabilities, required parameters, or data models based on search keywords. Results can be passed directly into 'get-endpoint'.", "inputSchema": { "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "properties": { "pattern": { "description": "Search pattern (case-insensitive)", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "pattern" ], "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "openWorldHint": false, "readOnlyHint": true } }, { "name": "execute-request", "title": "Execute API Request", "description": "Executes an API request with a given HAR request object.", "inputSchema": { "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "properties": { "harRequest": { "description": "HAR request object", "properties": { "headers": { "items": { "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "value": { "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "name", "value" ], "type": "object" }, "type": "array" }, "method": { "description": "options, get, head, patch, post, put, delete", "type": "string" }, "postData": { "anyOf": [ { "properties": { "mimeType": { "description": "e.g. application/json, text/plain", "type": "string" }, "text": { "description": "Raw request body as a string", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "mimeType", "text" ], "type": "object" }, { "properties": { "mimeType": { "description": "e.g. multipart/form-data, application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Use multipart/form-data for form submissions.", "type": "string" }, "params": { "description": "Form parameters. Use this instead of text for multipart/form-data and url-encoded requests.", "items": { "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "value": { "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "name" ], "type": "object" }, "type": "array" } }, "required": [ "mimeType", "params" ], "type": "object" } ] }, "queryString": { "items": { "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "value": { "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "name", "value" ], "type": "object" }, "type": "array" }, "url": { "description": "full url to call", "format": "uri", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "method", "url" ], "type": "object" } }, "required": [ "harRequest" ], "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": true, "openWorldHint": true, "readOnlyHint": false } }, { "name": "get-server-variables", "title": "Get Server Variables", "description": "Gets the server variables for each server within a specific OpenAPI spec.", "inputSchema": { "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "properties": {}, "type": "object" }, "annotations": { "destructiveHint": false, "openWorldHint": false, "readOnlyHint": true } } ], "schemaTokens": 879, "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:48:53.117800457Z", "check": { "checker": "anchor-check/1.0", "totalTokens": 879, "counts": { "error": 0, "note": 1, "warn": 1 }, "findings": [ { "rule": "TC11", "severity": "warn", "tool": "execute-request", "message": "4 parameters without a description: harRequest.headers[].name, harRequest.headers[].value, harRequest.queryString[].name, harRequest.queryString[].value", "fix": "Describe each one: format, units, an example, and what happens when it's left out." }, { "rule": "TC24", "severity": "note", "message": "5 of 5 tools have no outputSchema", "fix": "Declare outputSchema for tools that return structured data, and return structuredContent that matches it." } ] } }, "github": { "repo": "unipile/unipile-node-sdk", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T09:33:59.975989273Z", "stars": 48, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-08-03T14:33:30Z", "openIssues": 8, "openPRs": 15, "issuesOpened90d": 2, "issuesClosed90d": 0, "prsMerged90d": 0, "replies": { "sampled": 11, "unanswered": 8, "medianDays": 45.5 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T19:22:42.244355768Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 30, "category": "transparency", "leads": "unipile", "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 with public terms under French law. The SDK and MCP repositories carry MIT licence files (15). The privacy policy of 28 September 2026 gives storage by API version and channel, deletion within 30 days of termination and a DPA on request. The security page says no data leaves the EU while the policy lists proxy sub-processors in the United States and Singapore, so the statements don't fully agree. A new FAQ on the security page says the non-EU proxies are optional encrypted transit points that can't read the data, while the privacy policy still lists them as sub-processors under transfer safeguards (20). The docs say v1 has no deprecation date, and no deprecation policy was found. The terms let changes take effect on publication (6). Eight sub-processors listed with country, data location and transfer safeguard, and hosting named as Scaleway and OVH in France (18)." }, "scores": { "a": 42, "b": 72 } }, { "by": 25, "category": "security", "leads": "email-agent-mcp", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "OAuth to the person's own provider with the scopes each profile needs, tokens in the OS keychain, and an `observe` profile with Microsoft read scopes only. Gmail uses `gmail.readonly` and `gmail.compose`, and its code exchange and refreshes relay through a UseJunior-hosted broker that holds the client secret and says it stores no refresh tokens (25 of 30). Send allowlists, delete off by default behind an operator variable and a caller flag, inbox rules that block forwarding and deletion, and protected system folders (20). Receive allowlists limit whose mail the agent acts on; no guidance on treating message bodies as untrusted was found (9 of 15). No log of tool calls beyond the mailbox's own history (3 of 15). SECURITY.md with private reporting and acknowledgement within 3 business days, semgrep in CI; no bug bounty or advisories (10 of 20). Total 67.", "b": "One access token in `X-API-KEY` reaches every connected account, with no scopes in v1. End users connect Gmail and Outlook through OAuth on the customer's own app. The MCP page (updated 30 October 2026) no longer says headers can be passed as query parameters, and no documented query-string route for the token was found, so the 5 taken off on 8 October is restored (20). Google's `gmail.modify` scope can be left out and hosted auth accepts custom scopes, but there is no read-only token or confirmation step. Scoped keys are in the v2 beta only (6). Mail bodies are untrusted content and no injection guidance was found in the v1 docs. The v2 MCP page tells users to give the client a scoped key (2). The security page mentions logged and auditable internal access. No per-request log for the operator was found in the v1 docs (2). SOC 2 Type II with the report on request, annual third-party penetration tests and Google's CASA Tier 2, with no security.txt (404 on 4 November), disclosure policy or bug bounty found (12)." }, "scores": { "a": 67, "b": 42 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "reliability", "leads": "unipile", "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 REST API with the hosted lines. Status page at status.unipile.com on OpenStatus with components per provider and per API cluster and an events history (20). From 6 August to 4 November 2026 the history shows LinkedIn Classic Search returning incomplete results from 9 to 17 August, WhatsApp account connection unavailable for 3 hours on 17 August, the API-4 cluster unavailable for about 70 minutes on 20 August, v2 beta real-time sync degraded on 24 September, Instagram chat listing failing for 20 hours on 7 and 8 October, temporary 503 answers for part of API-4's requests during the 1 November migration, and the api46 server down for customers hosted on it from 19:38 to 23:13 UTC on 3 November. Each hit one provider, one cluster or one server, so minor only, as this run reads partial incidents (20). The 21 and 30 July platform incidents left the window. Unipile states no request limit of its own on v1 (\"We don't enforce any limits on our side\"), and the provider limits page gives provider figures such as 500 emails a day for Gmail and 5,000 recipients a day for Microsoft 365. Figures for limits other than the product's own take 10, as openai-decisions-api (10). On provider routes such as LinkedIn invitations, 429 is typed `errors/too_many_requests` with \"Please try again later\" and an optional `retry_after` field, while the mail references list no 429 and no backoff guidance was found. Sends accept an `Idempotency-Key` that returns the original result on a retry, and webhooks retry five times. Safe retries on the main write with partial 429 guidance take 12, as middesk (12). The terms say SLA commitments aren't in the standard offering and need a custom plan, with no SLA published for any tier (0). v1 is generally available (10). 20+20+10+12+0+10 = 72." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 72 } }, { "by": 20, "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). Per-account prices are public, from 55 dollars a month for up to 10 accounts down to 3.50 dollars an account above 5,000, with no charge per request (20). A 7-day trial with no card (20). A person has to sign up in a browser and connect each mailbox (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "email-agent-mcp", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "27 tools in the full profile, the 11 to 30 band, plus the `observe` profile as a read-only subset (20 of 25). List and search tools filter and page; we read the tool table, not every parameter (16 of 20). Errors are sanitised and use stable reasons such as NOT_SUPPORTED, failing closed before a Gmail mutation (15 of 20). readOnlyHint and destructiveHint on the tools in source; sends take no idempotency key (16 of 20). One npx command and a setup wizard for OAuth and mailbox choice; TypeScript only (12 of 15). Total 79.", "b": "`meta_only` drops bodies from mail lists and `limit` sizes the page. The MCP server has 5 compact tools (20). Cursor pagination, a full-text `search` and filters for folder, sender, recipient, thread and date (18). Errors carry `title`, `detail` and a typed `type`, with no retry guidance per type (14). `Idempotency-Key` on send only, not on drafts or updates, held at 14 as for a key on one route (knock 16, magicbell 14). The 8 October reading of the MCP annotations came from a `tools/list` call to the server, which this run treats as a probe, so it is dropped as evidence (14). Only `account_id` is required to list mail. The v1 SDK is Node only, and the Python client is for the v2 beta (7)." }, "scores": { "a": 79, "b": 73 } }, { "by": 5, "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": "Every dated source of the vendor's own was counted. The v1 changelog's latest entry is dated 13 October 2026, 22 days before this check (30). In the 90 days from 6 August the changelog has that one entry, and the v2 beta Node SDK was tagged nine times (14 August to 29 October, v2.32.0 to v2.63.0), counted at half as SDK tags, which together reach three (20). A Slack community, live chat and detailed status updates, for a closed service (10). Listed in the official MCP registry as com.unipile/unipile-mcp 1.0.0 since 29 September 2026 (15). The v1 Node SDK's last tag is v1.9.3 from 21 May 2025, with Dependabot added in May 2026; npm wasn't reachable on 4 November (4)." }, "scores": { "a": 84, "b": 79 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "MCP server", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "UseJunior", "b": "UNIPILE SAS", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under Unipile's terms of use. The v1 Node SDK repository and the unipile-mcp repository carry an MIT licence file", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "27", "b": "5", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.UseJunior/email-agent-mcp", "b": "com.unipile/unipile-mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-11-05", "b": "2026-10-13", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-09-28", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "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": "48 stars, 83k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "email-agent-mcp scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Unipile's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Unipile leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, email-agent-mcp or Unipile?" }, { "answer": "email-agent-mcp uses an OAuth sign-in. Unipile needs an API key.", "question": "Do email-agent-mcp and Unipile need an API key?" }, { "answer": "email-agent-mcp runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Unipile has a hosted endpoint at https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0.", "question": "Can an agent call email-agent-mcp and Unipile without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "email-agent-mcp is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Unipile.", "question": "Are email-agent-mcp and Unipile open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 79 against 73", "Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 42", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 79" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Open source", "No incidents deducted, where Unipile loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A person who wants an agent working in their own Outlook mailbox, or reading and drafting in Gmail, with guardrails.", "slug": "email-agent-mcp", "watchFor": "Pre-1.0, and every commit is by one maintainer" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 72 against 50", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 42" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "A product that needs one API over Gmail, Outlook and IMAP together with LinkedIn or WhatsApp messaging, priced per account.", "slug": "unipile", "watchFor": "A v1 access token reaches every connected account. Scoped keys and Unipile's own documented rate limits exist only in the v2 beta" } ], "history": { "email-agent-mcp": null, "unipile": [ { "causes": [ "product", "correction", "event" ], "date": "2026-11-04", "delta": 2.8, "from": 58.5, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 61.3, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "evidence" ], "date": "2026-10-28", "delta": 0.1, "from": 58.4, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 58.5, "toGrade": "C" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "mailbox.read", "name": "Mailbox access" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-email-agent-mcp.json", "title": "Aurinko Email API vs email-agent-mcp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-email-agent-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-unipile.json", "title": "Aurinko Email API vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aurinko-email-vs-unipile" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloudpost-vs-email-agent-mcp.json", 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emailengine-vs-unipile" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fastmail-vs-unipile.json", "title": "Fastmail API (JMAP) vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fastmail-vs-unipile" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gmail-api-vs-unipile.json", "title": "Gmail API vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gmail-api-vs-unipile" }, { "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/nylas-email-vs-unipile.json", "title": "Nylas Email API vs Unipile", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nylas-email-vs-unipile" }, { "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/unipile-vs-zoho-mail.json", "title": "Unipile vs Zoho Mail API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/unipile-vs-zoho-mail" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 22, "edge": "unipile", "email-agent-mcp": 50, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "unipile": 72, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "email-agent-mcp", "email-agent-mcp": 79, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "unipile": 77, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "email-agent-mcp", "email-agent-mcp": 79, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "unipile": 73, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "email-agent-mcp", "email-agent-mcp": 67, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "unipile": 42, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "email-agent-mcp", "email-agent-mcp": 60, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "unipile": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "email-agent-mcp", "email-agent-mcp": 84, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "unipile": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "unipile", "email-agent-mcp": 42, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "unipile": 72, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "email-agent-mcp scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Unipile's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Unipile leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do mailbox access.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "unipile": "One REST API covers Gmail, Outlook, IMAP, calendars, LinkedIn and WhatsApp, with an idempotency key on sends and a public OpenAPI spec. The v1 access token reaches every connected account, scoped keys exist only in the v2 beta, and no SLA is published. LinkedIn Classic Search limits changed in August 2026 with notice only on the day." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-unipile", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-unipile.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-unipile.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-unipile.min.md" }, "markdown": "email-agent-mcp scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Unipile's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Unipile leads on reliability 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- Unipile: grade C, 61.3/100, rank #622 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unipile.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/unipile.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- Agent ergonomics, 79 against 73\n- Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 42\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 79\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Unipile loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Pre-1.0, and every commit is by one maintainer\n\n### Unipile (C)\n\nGood for: A product that needs one API over Gmail, Outlook and IMAP together with LinkedIn or WhatsApp messaging, priced per account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 72 against 50\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 42\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: A v1 access token reaches every connected account. Scoped keys and Unipile's own documented rate limits exist only in the v2 beta\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Unipile +30\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- Unipile (72): Closed service with public terms under French law. The SDK and MCP repositories carry MIT licence files (15). The privacy policy of 28 September 2026 gives storage by API version and channel, deletion within 30 days of termination and a DPA on request. The security page says no data leaves the EU while the policy lists proxy sub-processors in the United States and Singapore, so the statements don't fully agree. A new FAQ on the security page says the non-EU proxies are optional encrypted transit points that can't read the data, while the privacy policy still lists them as sub-processors under transfer safeguards (20). The docs say v1 has no deprecation date, and no deprecation policy was found. The terms let changes take effect on publication (6). Eight sub-processors listed with country, data location and transfer safeguard, and hosting named as Scaleway and OVH in France (18).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: email-agent-mcp +25\n\n- email-agent-mcp (67): OAuth to the person's own provider with the scopes each profile needs, tokens in the OS keychain, and an `observe` profile with Microsoft read scopes only. Gmail uses `gmail.readonly` and `gmail.compose`, and its code exchange and refreshes relay through a UseJunior-hosted broker that holds the client secret and says it stores no refresh tokens (25 of 30). Send allowlists, delete off by default behind an operator variable and a caller flag, inbox rules that block forwarding and deletion, and protected system folders (20). Receive allowlists limit whose mail the agent acts on; no guidance on treating message bodies as untrusted was found (9 of 15). No log of tool calls beyond the mailbox's own history (3 of 15). SECURITY.md with private reporting and acknowledgement within 3 business days, semgrep in CI; no bug bounty or advisories (10 of 20). Total 67.\n- Unipile (42): One access token in `X-API-KEY` reaches every connected account, with no scopes in v1. End users connect Gmail and Outlook through OAuth on the customer's own app. The MCP page (updated 30 October 2026) no longer says headers can be passed as query parameters, and no documented query-string route for the token was found, so the 5 taken off on 8 October is restored (20). Google's `gmail.modify` scope can be left out and hosted auth accepts custom scopes, but there is no read-only token or confirmation step. Scoped keys are in the v2 beta only (6). Mail bodies are untrusted content and no injection guidance was found in the v1 docs. The v2 MCP page tells users to give the client a scoped key (2). The security page mentions logged and auditable internal access. No per-request log for the operator was found in the v1 docs (2). SOC 2 Type II with the report on request, annual third-party penetration tests and Google's CASA Tier 2, with no security.txt (404 on 4 November), disclosure policy or bug bounty found (12).\n\n### Reliability: Unipile +22\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- Unipile (72): Graded on the v1 REST API with the hosted lines. Status page at status.unipile.com on OpenStatus with components per provider and per API cluster and an events history (20). From 6 August to 4 November 2026 the history shows LinkedIn Classic Search returning incomplete results from 9 to 17 August, WhatsApp account connection unavailable for 3 hours on 17 August, the API-4 cluster unavailable for about 70 minutes on 20 August, v2 beta real-time sync degraded on 24 September, Instagram chat listing failing for 20 hours on 7 and 8 October, temporary 503 answers for part of API-4's requests during the 1 November migration, and the api46 server down for customers hosted on it from 19:38 to 23:13 UTC on 3 November. Each hit one provider, one cluster or one server, so minor only, as this run reads partial incidents (20). The 21 and 30 July platform incidents left the window. Unipile states no request limit of its own on v1 (\"We don't enforce any limits on our side\"), and the provider limits page gives provider figures such as 500 emails a day for Gmail and 5,000 recipients a day for Microsoft 365. Figures for limits other than the product's own take 10, as openai-decisions-api (10). On provider routes such as LinkedIn invitations, 429 is typed `errors/too_many_requests` with \"Please try again later\" and an optional `retry_after` field, while the mail references list no 429 and no backoff guidance was found. Sends accept an `Idempotency-Key` that returns the original result on a retry, and webhooks retry five times. Safe retries on the main write with partial 429 guidance take 12, as middesk (12). The terms say SLA commitments aren't in the standard offering and need a custom plan, with no SLA published for any tier (0). v1 is generally available (10). 20+20+10+12+0+10 = 72.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: email-agent-mcp +20\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- Unipile (40): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-account prices are public, from 55 dollars a month for up to 10 accounts down to 3.50 dollars an account above 5,000, with no charge per request (20). A 7-day trial with no card (20). A person has to sign up in a browser and connect each mailbox (0).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: email-agent-mcp +6\n\n- email-agent-mcp (79): 27 tools in the full profile, the 11 to 30 band, plus the `observe` profile as a read-only subset (20 of 25). List and search tools filter and page; we read the tool table, not every parameter (16 of 20). Errors are sanitised and use stable reasons such as NOT_SUPPORTED, failing closed before a Gmail mutation (15 of 20). readOnlyHint and destructiveHint on the tools in source; sends take no idempotency key (16 of 20). One npx command and a setup wizard for OAuth and mailbox choice; TypeScript only (12 of 15). Total 79.\n- Unipile (73): `meta_only` drops bodies from mail lists and `limit` sizes the page. The MCP server has 5 compact tools (20). Cursor pagination, a full-text `search` and filters for folder, sender, recipient, thread and date (18). Errors carry `title`, `detail` and a typed `type`, with no retry guidance per type (14). `Idempotency-Key` on send only, not on drafts or updates, held at 14 as for a key on one route (knock 16, magicbell 14). The 8 October reading of the MCP annotations came from a `tools/list` call to the server, which this run treats as a probe, so it is dropped as evidence (14). Only `account_id` is required to list mail. The v1 SDK is Node only, and the Python client is for the v2 beta (7).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: email-agent-mcp +5\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- Unipile (79): Every dated source of the vendor's own was counted. The v1 changelog's latest entry is dated 13 October 2026, 22 days before this check (30). In the 90 days from 6 August the changelog has that one entry, and the v2 beta Node SDK was tagged nine times (14 August to 29 October, v2.32.0 to v2.63.0), counted at half as SDK tags, which together reach three (20). A Slack community, live chat and detailed status updates, for a closed service (10). Listed in the official MCP registry as com.unipile/unipile-mcp 1.0.0 since 29 September 2026 (15). The v1 Node SDK's last tag is v1.9.3 from 21 May 2025, with Dependabot added in May 2026; npm wasn't reachable on 4 November (4).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | email-agent-mcp | Unipile | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 72 | Unipile +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 77 | email-agent-mcp +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 73 | email-agent-mcp +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 42 | email-agent-mcp +25 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | email-agent-mcp +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 79 | email-agent-mcp +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 42 | 72 | Unipile +30 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **65.9 · B** | **61.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | email-agent-mcp | Unipile |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | UseJunior | UNIPILE SAS |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0` |\n| Transports | stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Unipile's terms of use. The v1 Node SDK repository and the unipile-mcp repository carry an MIT licence file |\n| Tools exposed | 27 | 5 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.UseJunior/email-agent-mcp` | `com.unipile/unipile-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-11-05 | 2026-10-13 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-28 |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |\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 | 48 stars, 83k npm/wk |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### email-agent-mcp\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Unipile\n\n- +2.8 on 4 November 2026: product, correction, negative event\n- +0.1 on 28 October 2026: new evidence\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**Unipile.** One REST API covers Gmail, Outlook, IMAP, calendars, LinkedIn and WhatsApp, with an idempotency key on sends and a public OpenAPI spec. The v1 access token reaches every connected account, scoped keys exist only in the v2 beta, and no SLA is published. LinkedIn Classic Search limits changed in August 2026 with notice only on the day.\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### Unipile\n\n1. Take the DSN (host and port) from the dashboard. Each account has its own, such as api1.unipile.com:13111, and `?port=` keeps requests on 443\n2. Send `X-API-KEY` as a header and pass `account_id` on every mail call. The token reaches every connected account, so keep it out of prompts and logs\n3. Set `Idempotency-Key` on every send. Keys are held in memory for up to 24 hours and are lost on a restart\n4. On LinkedIn Classic searches, page with `limit` 10 or less and don't rely on a total count. Sales Navigator and Recruiter allow up to 100\n5. Use `meta_only=true` when listing mail, then fetch one message at a time. Treat message bodies as untrusted input\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, email-agent-mcp or Unipile?\n\nemail-agent-mcp scores 65.9 (B) on agent readiness against Unipile's 61.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Unipile leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do email-agent-mcp and Unipile need an API key?\n\nemail-agent-mcp uses an OAuth sign-in. Unipile needs an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call email-agent-mcp and Unipile without installing anything?\n\nemail-agent-mcp runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. Unipile has a hosted endpoint at https://developer.unipile.com/mcp?branch=v1.0.\n\n### Are email-agent-mcp and Unipile open source?\n\nemail-agent-mcp is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Unipile.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-unipile.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/email-agent-mcp-vs-unipile.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"email-agent-mcp\", \"b\": \"unipile\"}`. 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