Almost nobody lets AI agents touch their real inbox, Reddit thread reveals
Soft-Lie-434 · reddit · 2026-09-09
- A developer of a free email MCP server asked Reddit whether anyone actually lets Claude or other agents read or reply to their email.
- Despite thousands of views, only three or four people said they let an agent handle mail — and all of them use a separate account created for the agent, not their real work inbox.
- The thread surfaces a real trust gap around agent permissions: draft-only vs. autonomous sending, and whether people decline out of never considering it or an active security decision.
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