{
  "id": 1136323,
  "title": "I Ran 50 Emails Through AI Agents. 12 SMTP Bounces Hit.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/i-ran-50-emails-through-ai-agents-12-smtp-bounces-hit",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-15T22:14:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/onizuka/i-ran-50-emails-through-ai-agents-12-smtp-bounces-hit-4jc"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "ai, #api, #security, #sideprojects The 50-email experiment On August 12, I handed an AI agent a CSV of fifty email addresses and an SMTP tool. Thirty-eight minutes later, twelve of them had bounced. I wasn't trying to break anything. I was testing whether a local agent could handle a simple outreach task end-to-end: read a list, draft a short note, send it. The model I used was Muse Glimmer,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}