About

Built by a technology visionary and systems architect

Mailbox MCP is built by Mark McNeece, founder of 365i: a hosting expert, technology visionary and systems architect who has been running production mail and web infrastructure since 2002.

  • Company BSolve IT Limited
  • Registered England and Wales, 04607330
  • Trading since 2002
Mailbox MCP introduces itself: the robot waving hello beside a closed mailbox, with a speech bubble reading "Hi there!".
Mailbox MCP: enabling AI to manage your email

Origin

Why this exists

Claude turned out to be genuinely useful for the parts of a working day that are made of email: finding the thread where a decision was actually made, drafting the reply that has been sitting undone for a week, filing the things that pile up. The obstacle was never whether it could help. It was that getting it near a real mailbox meant either copying messages about by hand or trusting a tool that would leave a mess behind.

Leaving a mess is the part that matters. A mail integration that marks everything read, or files a duplicate of every sent message, or starts a fresh conversation instead of replying inside the existing one, has not saved you an hour. It has cost you an afternoon and made your mailbox less trustworthy than it was before.

So the product was built around a single test: after Claude has used your mailbox, can you tell? Threading, sent copies, read flags and attachment bytes all had to come out the way a person using a normal mail client would have left them. Those are the measurements on the home page, and they are on the home page because they are the whole argument.

The Microsoft 365 side came from the same place. Microsoft ended password access to those mailboxes in 2022, which quietly put them out of reach of most tools in this category. Supporting them properly is more work and it is the reason a lot of businesses cannot use the alternatives.

Why Mailbox MCP exists: the robot carefully replacing a letter in a mailbox and resetting its flag, leaving everything as he found it.
Put back exactly as it was found

The author

Who builds it

Mark McNeece, founder of BSolve IT Limited, which has spent its whole registered life building and running things for other people's businesses. That is a useful background for this, because most of what goes wrong with a mail integration goes wrong in the same places it goes wrong for a hosting customer or a website client.

365i is the hosting arm of that company: managed WordPress hosting, Linux web hosting, plans built for agencies, managed cloud servers, VPS hosting, and domain registration. That background matters here more than it looks like it should. A mail connection fails at the DNS record, the certificate, the authentication method, or a limit the provider never wrote down, and that is the same list that fills a hosting support queue.

There is no support department and the site does not pretend there is. Email support@mailbox-mcp.com and you are writing to the person who built the thing you are asking about. That is worth more than a queue, and it is also the honest reason there is no telephone number: a phone line nobody answers reliably is worse than an inbox somebody reads.

Mailbox MCP is built and maintained by one person: a robot at a workbench with a screwdriver, working on an open mailbox with a lit circuit board inside and a tray of letters beside it.
Built by the person who answers the email

The open standard this site is built to

He also publishes AI Visibility, an open community specification for AI Discovery Files: the machine-readable files a site serves at fixed root-level paths so an AI system can establish what the site is, what it offers, and what it permits. It is versioned, published under CC BY 4.0 with JSON Schemas, RFC-style wording and a validator, and it covers ten files rather than the single llms.txt most sites stop at.

This site implements the full set, which is the reason /llms.txt and the files beside it are generated from one source here instead of being written out by hand and left to drift apart. Publishing the specification and then failing to follow it would be the easiest thing in the world to do quietly, so it is worth saying which of the two this site is.

Practice

Every claim on this site is checked before it ships: a robot holding up a ticked checklist beside a mailbox full of letters, with a small lit instrument measuring it.
Every figure here was measured, not estimated

How we work

Five habits, which you can check against the rest of the site.

Numbers rather than adjectives

Where this site states a figure, it was measured rather than estimated, and the page says what it was measured against. Nothing is rounded up into a better number. When there is no measurement, there is no claim.

One price, one limit

The price and the daily limit come from one place and appear identically everywhere, including in the control panel. Two numbers for the same thing on two pages is the sort of small dishonesty that predicts larger ones.

The limits are written down

Every page carries a section on what the thing does not do. It is a better guide to whether a product suits you than any feature list, and it is cheaper for both of us than a refund.

The guides say what is actually wrong

Both connection guides exist because the published advice is out of date. They tell you that Google removed the IMAP toggle, that a passkey does not unlock app passwords, and that the Microsoft permissions are not where every other guide says they are. That is the useful part.

Somebody else is welcome to check

We give developers and reviewers a complimentary year of Pro so they can test this properly and publish whatever they find. A positive review is not a condition, we do not ask to see the piece before it goes out, and we do not ask anybody to soften a criticism. The offer exists because the free allowance is 5 calls a day, which is not enough to review anything.

The entity

Company details

Trading nameMailbox MCP
Registered companyBSolve IT Limited
Company number04607330, England and Wales
Incorporated3 December 2002
VAT numberGB 806 170 747
Registered office 5 Epping Close, Barton Seagrave, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 6TR
Emailsupport@mailbox-mcp.com

The registered office is published because a trader selling online to consumers in the UK has to give a geographic address. It is not a place to visit and there is nobody there to see you; support is by email and gets answered faster.

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