Is Email MCP server safe?
Yes, with the usual care.
Safe to use. Minor gaps such as a missing repository or slower maintenance.
What to know before installing
- highShell command built from a string (injection risk)
How Email compares
Against every graded Email MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 74/100
- higher than 42% of 915 Email servers
- Tools that change things
- 44%
- typical: 25%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
What its tools let an agent do: 24 read · 6 create · 13 change · 5 delete · 3 send or post · 1 run or deploy
Release history: 4 versions in the registry since 2026-05-16, latest 2026-10-10, typically one every 14 days.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-11-08 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 high
- Code scan233 source files scanned13/25
- –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
- Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
- Maintenancelast push 1 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (1)
- highShell command built from a string (injection risk)
exec.shell-concatdist/cli/scheduler.js: …LIST, plist); try { execSync(`launchctl load "${LAUNCHD_PLIST}"`, { stdio: 'pipe' }); …
Overall 74/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON
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