Search for emails in your inbox with flexible filters. Optionally get full email content and attachments. Use this to find specific emails, check for unread messages, or browse your inbox.
AI agents call emails_find to retrieve information from Email SMTP/IMAP MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries email data without modifying, deleting, or executing operations. It enables filtering and searching across mailboxes and attachments, but produces no side effects beyond reading existing email content. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an agent could read sensitive email content but cannot send, delete, or modify messages, nor execute financial transactions.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'emails_find' with description 'Search for emails in your inbox with flexible filters.' The verb 'search' and action verbs like 'find', 'check', and 'browse' indicate read-only retrieval operations with no data modification, deletion, or execution…
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Search for emails in your inbox with flexible filters. Optionally get full email content and attachments. Use this to find specific emails, check for unread messages, or browse your inbox. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Email SMTP/IMAP MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Email SMTP/IMAP MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for emails_find: 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 Email SMTP/IMAP MCP Server. Nothing to install.
emails_find is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the emails_find 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 emails_find. 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.
emails_find is provided by the Email SMTP/IMAP MCP Server MCP server (samihalawa/email-smtp-imap-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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