I kept running into the same question in OpenClaw discussions: is it secure enough to touch company email? Reasonable question. Wrong framing. If your agent can read a sales inbox, send as a rep, and treat inbound email like instructions, the biggest risk is usually not whether OpenClaw is running in Docker. It’s permissions. It’s blast radius. It’s whether the workflow is draft-only or allowed to send. That sounds boring compared to container isolation and sandboxing. It is also the part that decides whether a prompt injection turns into an awkward draft or a 500-recipient incident in Microsoft 365. I was looking through a couple of Reddit threads about OpenClaw email setups, and the pattern was obvious: people asked about Docker, VMs, and host isolation people worried about whether OpenClaw itself was hardened enough the best comments were actually about service accounts, restricted scopes, and draft-only flows That’s the real story.…