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MailFathom MCP Server

Security-first, self-hosted email archive with search, cited answers, and sending for AI agents.

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Status

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Known issues

156 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

Run the integration suite against main with the AI provider contract tests on, and repair what it reports

Context

The integration suite never runs on a pull request. It starts a PostgreSQL container and an orchestration, so it is minutes of runner time rather than the seconds a pull-request check is worth, and it is reachable only by a manual dispatch of Integration tests or by Release calling it before it builds anything. That is the deliberate arrangement, and its known cost is that a change breaking the suite merges green and stays broken until somebody asks for a run.

The provider-contr

Read the thread · 2026-08-13 · closed · 2 comments

[P] Configuration-authored rules that act on synchronized mail

Context

No numbered specification under specs/ backs this issue. It records a capability the roadmap does not cover: letting the owner define recurring work of their own over synchronized mail, rather than only reading it through the MCP tools.

Two shapes are wanted, and the first decision is that they are not one feature with two backends:

Read the thread · 2026-08-01 · closed · 2 comments

Publish MailFathom metadata to the official MCP Registry

I would like to request that MailFathom be added to this list.

Publish the current MailFathom release to the official MCP Registry using registry metadata that accurately represents an operator-hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint.

User stories

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · closed · 1 comment

Advertise the scopes a client should ask for, separately from the ones a token must carry

Context

PublishedOAuthMetadata.For composes scopes_supported as the distinct union of every configured entry's RequiredScopes. A deployment therefore advertises exactly the scopes it will refuse a token for lacking, and has no way to tell a client about a scope it should ask for but will not be checked on.

offline_access is that scope. mfctl is the only client that obtains a refresh token here, and it does so by disregarding what the deployment published: `DeploymentAuthorizer.Sco

Read the thread · 2026-08-13 · closed · 1 comment

[P] Manage owner mail rules at runtime through writable configuration

What this feature is

Mail rules remain configuration. This feature makes one owner's MailRules section writable at runtime from mfctl and, only when explicitly enabled, from MCP.

#1119 and #1243 remove the expensive premise in the old design. PostgreSQL is not a second live rule authority and no dedicated stored_rules table is introduced: an owner's rules are typed content of that owner's settings_accounts document, written through #1243's writer port and read through an application

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · open · 1 comment

Most recent

Move the benchmark and mutation-score diagnostics from the nightly channel to a weekly pipeline

Context

Nightly carries two jobs that publish nothing and gate nothing: Hot-path benchmarks and Mutation score. They sit there as passengers on a channel whose reason to exist is publishing an image of main, and they run only when that channel's publish decision says main has moved — a condition that belongs to the image, not to the two measurements.

The two diagnostics answer a slower question — what the hot paths cost, and where the suite stopped asserting — and a fixed weekly c

Read the thread · 2026-08-30 · closed · 0 comments

Dispatch issues to Claude Code or Codex with runtime-specific labels

Context

The host dispatcher currently treats agent:run as one queue and replaces it with the runtime-neutral agent:claimed marker before starting a Claude Code session. Its capacity, snapshot, restore, shutdown, merged-PR reaping, and frontend-tool selection all understand Claude Code state only. Codex already has a supervised local app server, persistent interactive sessions, resumable session IDs, compatible repository skills, plugin profiles, and worktree-aware transcripts, but no iss

Read the thread · 2026-08-28 · closed · 0 comments

Record that a credential reaches every account its owner owns, and that narrowing it further is refused

Context

ADR 0014 settles how MailFathom serves more than one person: one tenant, several owners, a mail account belonging to exactly one of them. It left one axis open — narrowing a single credential within its own owner's accounts — and pointed at #588 for it, in three places and by name.

That axis is now refused. McpEndpoint and ClientEndpoint resolve

Read the thread · 2026-08-27 · closed · 0 comments

Give the deployment one way to hold work exclusively, as a lease in PostgreSQL with no consumer yet

Context

The decision this follows records what a lease is; nothing implements one yet. The job store leases a job, but its lease is a stamp on the job row and is reachable only through the job's own claim statement, so a supervisor, a sweep, and a content move have nothing to take. Each of the three lands in a different boundary and none of them should carry a coordination mechanism of its own.

What is missing is one application-owned port for taking, renewing, and releasing exclusive hold

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

Keep a message withheld from chat out of every MCP result, and refuse it by identifier as absent

Context

#1258 lets the owner name the mail no model may be shown, #1259 compiles the set, and #1261 writes a verdict beside each message. #1260 closes the two paths this deployment hands text to a provider on itself. This issue closes the third, and the one where the model is somebody else's: the MCP surface.

A tool result is a prompt this deployment did not compose. [SensitiveContentEgressPoint](https://github.com/Krzysztof318/MailFathom/blob/main/backend/src/Application/SensitiveCon

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

Keep a withheld message out of chunking, embedding, and every retrieval that feeds a chat run

Context

This is the half of #1258 that acts. #1261 gives every stored message a verdict naming the provider roles it is withheld from; here each role's gate reads it, and what was derived from a message before the owner decided against it is taken back.

The embedding gate has a shape to follow rather than one to invent. #693 put junk behind exactly this gate: a withheld message is not cut into passages, is not offered to the embedding backlog, and its content never reaches a provider, w

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · 0 comments

Route each writable configuration path through a hard-coded catalog, and deny the bootstrap paths

Context

#1119 puts a PostgreSQL layer under the operator's overrides and reads it. What it does not answer is where a value goes when something writes one, and that question cannot be answered per call: a path that could land in two places is a value with two truths.

A hard-coded catalog compiled into the program answers it. Paths nobody assigned a special route go into the singleton settings_root document. A path named by a special route is excluded from that document and projected from

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · closed · 0 comments

See all 24 reports Pod holds for MailFathom — of 156 qualified upstream.

Firsthand observations

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