MailAccess

Free and paid

Quote the MailAccess pricing page, not the homepage badge. On 17 Oct 2026 Pro was $5 a month plus tax. The page says tax is added at checkout, you can cancel anytime, and payments are by Dodo Payments. It also says the price becomes $9 after the first 100 seats and is locked for life. The same page said 58 of 100 founder seats were left. That counter moves, so date it. A $999 tier is printed and then withdrawn: the page says there is no checkout and that the tier is a joke, with everything in Pro at $5. Do not budget $999. The comparison table is dated 27 September 2026 and marks some rows as third-party. This listing does not restate those other prices. PyPI project URLs still contain YOUR_USERNAME placeholders. Cite the real repository and pypi.org/project/mailaccess/, not those links.

The MailAccess homepage, opened on 17 Oct 2026, describes an investigate step and an email scraper. It prints 75 modules, 5,300+ platforms, zero API keys, and 43,550+ installs. The GitHub repository description says 5000+ platforms. Those figures are the project's own claims. This listing did not recount modules or installs. The README requires Python 3.10 or newer, offers Docker Compose, and shows `pip install mailaccess` then `mailaccess investigate` on an address. The CLI auto-starts a backend. `mailaccess serve` keeps a server running. Optional extras are `mailaccess[ml]` and `mailaccess[browser]`. The README says findings can be exported or sent to Maltego, and it points at DISCLAIMER.md for authorization.

• Two version strings. PyPI listed 0.18.7 on 17 Oct 2026. The homepage snippet still printed mailaccess-0.18.5. GitHub had no release.
• Hosted caps versus self-host. The free hosted tier is five investigations and one scrape a day. The pricing page says self-hosting is unlimited.
• A $999 tier with no checkout. The pricing page calls that tier a joke and says everything it offers is in Pro at $5 a month plus tax.

1. 1

   Read DISCLAIMER.md before an install. The README limits the tool to work you are authorized to do.

2. 2

   Check PyPI for the version you will cite. Do not copy the homepage snippet if it still says 0.18.5.

3. 3

   On the hosted free tier, use your own address when you need the full report. Someone else's address is a preview.

4. 4

   If the hosted caps are the constraint, follow the self-host path. The pricing page says that path is unlimited.

• A teammate pastes the homepage install block into a runbook. Open PyPI before you merge it. On 17 Oct 2026 pypi.org listed mailaccess 0.18.7 under the MIT license, while the homepage snippet still printed mailaccess-0.18.5, and the GitHub repository had no release. Write the version you installed. Ignore the project URLs on PyPI that still say YOUR_USERNAME. The repository to clone is github.com/KatrielMoses/MailAccess.
• Procurement asks whether Pro replaces the engine. Read the pricing page as two products. The engine is $0 and MIT. Hosted free use is five investigations and one scrape a day, with a full report on your own address and a preview on someone else's. Pro is $5 a month plus tax for the hosted corpus, and the page says that price becomes $9 after the first 100 seats. Self-hosting is the path the page calls unlimited. Put the path you will actually use in the request.
• Someone wants a MailAccess graph in a finding. The homepage illustration is a sample, and this listing did not run the tool against a mailbox. DISCLAIMER.md is the README's authorization gate. If the row came from the hosted free tier on another person's address, the pricing page says that result is a preview. Open the source the report names, or leave the row out. A preview is not an identification.

Hard cases

The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

Questions

Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.