MailAccess
the true Email OSINT framework
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Details
- External ID
- 49977385
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- MailAccess
- Website domain
- mailaccess.pro
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 75
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.87
- Tags
- —
Description
Im a security engineer and i built mailaccess. When i started learning pentesting, i came across multiple lectures and notes of people listing out tools and websites, which gives the emails for a particular domain, and almost all of them mentioned that the tool might not stick, so its better to learn the methodology, rather than learning a tool- that stuck with me. As i was beginning to really get into pentesting i noticed a clear lack of email osint methodology through the tool itself - so i thought of building one myself. I researched email osint methodoliges and identity chaining in depth to really get this tool the exact brain that a human would use, the reasoning of each action and the scoring behind each of it. Then after learning i just put it all together, and people really liked ita nd supported it, because it gave the truth rather than just filling it with names, it doesnt give a list, it gives sections, where it came from and how. Thats exactly what i wouldve wanted when i was first learning, a tool that familiarizes with what each source gave, and what was found.Do check it out, i have made a hosted version so that people can route everything through that, and that also has been going very well, all thanks to the community and the solid supporters throughout.github.com/KatrielMoses/MailAccess
Enrichment
- Niche
- cyber threat intelligence platforms
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open source intelligence framework for email investigations
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The web UI and basic OSINT aggregators can be vibe-coded, but maintaining 75 scraper modules across 5,300+ platforms without API keys requires constant anti-bot evasion and maintenance.
What it would actually take: A production version requires an asynchronous Python/Node crawling engine coupled with proxy rotation pools (residential IPs, CAPTCHA solvers) to query thousands of third-party platforms without getting blocked. It needs graph database storage (like Neo4j) to correlate identities, calculate confidence scores, and resolve entities across diverse schema sources. The primary challenge is maintaining thousands of fragile scraping endpoints and bypass techniques against aggressive rate-limiting.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 70 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 71 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains · hn · 2026-07-05 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Marco, a privacy-first, offline-first email client (IMAP-native, no AI) · hn · 2026-03-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- I made an email app inspired by Arc browser · hn · 2026-03-20 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Consensus-OSINT · github · 2026-10-08 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- My OSINT dashboard with 60+ feeds now has a pseudonymous P2P comms · hn · 2026-05-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- VaultSandbox · hn · 2026-01-06 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- SpiderFoot OSINT Tool · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Free Email Extractor · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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