mail_config

What mail_config does on Truenas

AI agents call mail_config to retrieve information from Truenas without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why mail_config is rated Low

This tool retrieves the existing mail/SMTP configuration settings for system notifications. It performs a query operation with no side effects—it does not create, modify, delete, execute commands, or commit financial transactions. The read-only nature and low sensitivity of SMTP configuration data (containing endpoints and settings but not necessarily credentials) places this in the Read category with low severity.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'mail_config' combined with description 'Get the current mail/SMTP configuration' indicates a retrieval operation with the verb 'Get' explicitly stating data retrieval with no modification capability.

The rule that runs mail_config safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Truenas, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For mail_config, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "mail_config": {}
  }
}

Questions about mail_config