Process and query email across providers via MCP agents

Community report: the developer spent six months writing the codebase with help from Cursor, Codex and Claude Code. The system runs in the cloud and connects to Gmail and Outlook mailboxes. The codebase is largely done and running in private beta.

Agent or tool: Cursor
Topic: Email & Inbox
Reported on: Hacker News
Added: 2026-10-15

Why it matters

Email is where a lot of admin quietly piles up. An agent that can read, sort, draft and follow up turns an inbox from a to-do list into something closer to a summary. It is one of 106 sightings filed under Email & Inbox on Agent Sightings (number 105 by interest), and one of 30 involving Cursor.

How you could try it

Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Cursor or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

Go through my mail for this goal: process and query email across providers via MCP agents. Propose labels, drafts, and unsubscribes as a checklist; change nothing until I approve.

Tip: Start with read-only access or 'draft, don't send', and check a few drafts before trusting it to send anything.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743163. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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