mail-index runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.
Local-first, read-only MCP server for recall over your Gmail: search, contacts, threads, digests.
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Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 9 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
What the code does
We read the source, 5 d ago · rules 995398eba69f
Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.
const child = spawn(process.execPath, [join(here, 'selfupdate.mjs')], {
What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.
const child = spawn(process.execPath, [join(here, 'selfupdate.mjs')], {
el.innerHTML = el.innerHTML.split(/<br\s*\/?>/i)
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We found things in this code
Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch mail-index and you get told the day something new turns up.
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