Introducing CloudPost: privacy-first iCloud Mail for AI assistants

There's a fun demo of me talking to Grok in my Tesla about my emails. Which, admittedly, is a slightly ridiculous way to introduce an email tool. But the reason I built CloudPost was much less flashy: I wanted ChatGPT to help me make sense of my inbox. I've had my email address for a long time. Over the years, it's accumulated a barrage of spam, newsletters I no longer read, and mailing lists I barely remember joining. In my experience, iCloud's spam filtering is pretty poor, and sorting through everything manually isn't how I want to spend my time. I wanted to ask for an overview of my emails, quickly spot the newsletters I don't want any more, and get help unsubscribing. Not a new email client. Just a better way to deal with the one I already have. What is CloudPost? CloudPost is a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects iCloud Mail to clients such as ChatGPT and Claude. MCP gives an assistant tools it can use to work with services outside the chat; in this case,…