MailAccess is an open-source email OSINT and scraping framework that builds detailed identity graphs from a single address and bulk-scrapes corporate emails by domain. It operates with 75 modular probes across 5,300+ platforms, requires no API keys, and scores findings only on corroborated evidence. Every hit returns provenance: the source, a confidence level, and a one-sentence rationale, avoiding any black-box output. The engine is MIT licensed and can be self-hosted so nothing leaves your network; a hosted Pro tier adds a contact corpus and app access (Pro from $5, advertised 150,000 business contacts/month). Daily free usage includes five investigations and one scrape, and the project shows uptake with ~1.5k GitHub stars and tens of thousands of installs.
The tool is distributed via pip and runnable from the command line (e.g., mailaccess investigate [email protected]) and integrates internet host intelligence (Netlas) to enrich results. It emphasizes transparency and legal limits - public-source collection and opt-out guidance - while positioning itself against commercial scrapers by exposing receipts for each claim. Target users include OSINT analysts, threat researchers, incident responders and penetration testers who need repeatable, auditable mapping of accounts and company email census data.
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