CEO here, can confirm. Mail Pilot runs IMAP and SMTP directly to your email server and back; nothing in the middle. Our first client, released in 2012, did make

CEO here, can confirm. Mail Pilot runs IMAP and SMTP directly to your email server and back; nothing in the middle. Our first client, released in 2012, did make use of a 3rd party server, but it made too many people uncomfortable, so we found ways to implement the advanced functionality of Mail Pilot without needing a 3rd party server (here's the blog post of the announcement that we were moving away from using a 3rd party server: http://mindsense.co/blog/6-major-announcements/ http://mindsense.co/blog/6-major-announcements/).