ietf-imap-mcp

Enables searching, paging through, and reading IETF mailing-list archives via IMAP, allowing an MCP-capable assistant to track list activity.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 1 credential: IETF_IMAP_PASSWORD

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configIETF_IMAP_USER— anonymous, or your Datatracker username anonymous

🔐 secretIETF_IMAP_PASSWORD— Datatracker password (authenticated access) — plaintext —

configIETF_IMAP_PASSWORD_FILE— Path to a file containing the password —

configIETF_IMAP_PASSWORD_CMD— Shell command whose stdout is the password (e.g. op read …) —

configIETF_IMAP_EMAIL— Email used as the password for anonymous access —

configIETF_IMAP_MIN_INTERVAL— Minimum seconds between IMAP commands 1.0

configIETF_IMAP_MAILBOX_PREFIX— Prefix for bare list names Shared Folders/

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commit: 97898adca6bc76589ca075ab46226fa23828a401

code hash: 3ca154182810925d23f41a8cf42691067f16981cbd082284839fffa734211071

verified: 6/18/2026, 10:31:28 AM

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