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EmailEngine

EmailEngine is a self-hosted email automation platform that provides a unified REST API for accessing email accounts via IMAP, SMTP, the Gmail API, and the Microsoft Graph API. It exposes JSON payloads, real-time webhooks, OAuth2 integration, an IMAP/SMTP proxy, hosted authentication forms, low-code custom integrations, Prometheus monitoring, and bounce detection so developers can build modern email functionality without paying per-account fees.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles EmailEngine the way a machine reads it — 19 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — EmailEngine scores 44.1/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 44/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 44.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 10.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile EmailEngine

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for EmailEngine. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 13

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

EmailEngine Account API

The Account API from EmailEngine — 3 operation(s) for account.

EmailEngine Accounts API

The Accounts API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for accounts.

EmailEngine Autoconfig API

The Autoconfig API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for autoconfig.

EmailEngine Deliverytest API

The Deliverytest API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for deliverytest.

EmailEngine Gateways API

The Gateways API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for gateways.

EmailEngine License API

The License API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for license.

EmailEngine Logs API

The Logs API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for logs.

EmailEngine Oauth2 API

The Oauth2 API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for oauth2.

EmailEngine Outbox API

The Outbox API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for outbox.

EmailEngine Stats API

The Stats API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for stats.

EmailEngine Templates API

The Templates API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for templates.

EmailEngine Tokens API

The Tokens API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for tokens.

EmailEngine Webhookroutes API

The Webhookroutes API from EmailEngine — 1 operation(s) for webhookroutes.

Scroll within the panel for all 13 ·

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

EmailEngine API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Emailengine Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Emailengine Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Emailengine Agentic Access

15 operations · 1 acting

15 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for EmailEngine — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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