Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zrtch/awesome-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/imap-smtp-emailWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/imap-smtp-email)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/imap-smtp-email"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/imap-smtp-email/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/imap-smtp-email"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zrtch/awesome-skills/imap-smtp-email.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00086 | $0.02269 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.01135 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00454 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00227 |
Grade A, and why
imap-smtp-email scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
This is a copy
86% identical to imap-smtp-email — 144 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
IMAP/SMTP Email Tool
Read, search, and manage email via IMAP protocol. Send email via SMTP. Supports Gmail, Outlook, 163.com, vip.163.com, 126.com, vip.126.com, 188.com, vip.188.com, and any standard IMAP/SMTP server.
Configuration
Run the setup script to configure your email account:
bash setup.sh
Configuration is stored at ~/.config/imap-smtp-email/.env (survives skill updates). If no config is found there, the skill falls back to a .env file in the skill directory (for backward compatibility).
Config file format
# Default account (no prefix)
IMAP_HOST=imap.gmail.com
IMAP_PORT=993
[email protected]
IMAP_PASS=your_password
IMAP_TLS=true
IMAP_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=true
IMAP_MAILBOX=INBOX
SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_SECURE=false
[email protected]
SMTP_PASS=your_password
[email protected]
SMTP_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=true
# File access whitelist (security)
ALLOWED_READ_DIRS=~/Downloads,~/Documents
ALLOWED_WRITE_DIRS=~/Downloads
Multi-Account
You can configure additional email accounts in the same config file. Each account uses a name prefix (uppercase) on all variables.
Adding an account
Run the setup script and choose "Add a new account":
bash setup.sh
Or manually add prefixed variables to ~/.config/imap-smtp-email/.env:
# Work account (WORK_ prefix)
WORK_IMAP_HOST=imap.company.com
WORK_IMAP_PORT=993
[email protected]
WORK_IMAP_PASS=password
WORK_IMAP_TLS=true
WORK_IMAP_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=true
WORK_IMAP_MAILBOX=INBOX
WORK_SMTP_HOST=smtp.company.com
WORK_SMTP_PORT=587
WORK_SMTP_SECURE=false
[email protected]
WORK_SMTP_PASS=password
[email protected]
WORK_SMTP_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=true
Using a named account
Add --account <name> before the command:
node scripts/imap.js --account work check
node scripts/smtp.js --account work send --to [email protected] --subject Hi --body Hello
Without --account, the default (unprefixed) account is used.
What ships with it
3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 11d ago First seen · 275 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 01345a894f28
imap-smtp-email is a skill published in the GitHub repository zrtch/awesome-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 2,269 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to imap-smtp-email, differing in 144 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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