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Pro tip: usually you can download your emails to an offline collection. That way there's no risk. Hooking it up to your email sounds very very risky.


You can also just do read only access through most mcp servers for functionally no difference


if you download them, you can remove all internet access for the model going forward on the task, don't want to http proxy like OpenAi now do we?


Yeah that's more my point. I've seen the logs for what these things do when I leave them unattended. I wouldn't trust anything to go out to the open network, especially with my credentials. Maybe mcp server to an offline database.




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