create_email_account
Provision a new email mailbox on an owned domain. Creates the account and optionally starts warmup. Enterprise only.
This record as markdown: /tools/adrata-starfield-mcp/create-email-account.md
What create_email_account does on Starfield
AI agents use create_email_account to create or update resources in Starfield, usually the action step of a workflow, after the agent has gathered context. Every call changes real data in your Starfield environment.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
domain | string | Yes | Domain to create the account on (must be a verified domain in your workspace) |
username | string | Yes | Username/local part of the email (e.g. "sarah" for sarah@domain.com) |
autoWarmup | boolean | — | Start warmup immediately after creation (default: false) |
displayName | string | Yes | Display name for the sender (e.g. "Sarah Johnson") |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why create_email_account is rated Medium
An AI agent can call create_email_account faster than any human can review: one bad instruction and it creates or modifies resources in Starfield by the hundred, each call as confident as the last.
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The rule that runs create_email_account safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Starfield, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For create_email_account, this is the rule to start with:
create_email_account stays usable, but capped: an agent stuck in a loop can't make hundreds of changes a minute. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Starfield, apply this rule, and every create_email_account call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about create_email_account
Provision a new email mailbox on an owned domain. Creates the account and optionally starts warmup. Enterprise only. It is categorised as a Write tool in the Starfield MCP Server, which means it can create or modify data. Consider rate limits to prevent runaway writes.
create_email_account accepts 4 parameters: domain, username, autoWarmup, displayName. Required: domain, username, displayName. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Starfield MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for create_email_account: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Starfield. Nothing to install.
create_email_account is a Write tool with medium risk. Write tools should be rate-limited to prevent accidental bulk modifications.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the create_email_account rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for create_email_account. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
create_email_account is provided by the Starfield MCP server (@adrata/starfield-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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