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MCP Email Server

MCP Email Server is an MCP server that adds messaging tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Full-featured, multi-account MCP email server for Windows, macOS, and Linux—read, search, organize, and send email via IMAP and SMTP. It has 348 GitHub stars, is released under the BSD-3-Clause license and runs locally with uvx mcp-email-server.

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Install MCP Email Server

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-email-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-email-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio mcp-email-server -- uvx mcp-email-server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-email-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-email-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-email-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-email-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About MCP Email Server

An MCP server for reading, searching, organizing, and sending email through IMAP and SMTP. mcp-email-server supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. See Security for platform-specific filesystem and credential storage details.

  • email
  • mcp
  • mcp-server
  • email-server
  • fastmcp
  • imap
  • model-context-protocol
  • multi-account
  • python
  • smtp

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What is MCP Email Server?

MCP Email Server is an MCP server that adds messaging tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Full-featured, multi-account MCP email server for Windows, macOS, and Linux—read, search, organize, and send email via IMAP and SMTP. It has 348 GitHub stars, is released under the BSD-3-Clause license and runs locally with uvx mcp-email-server. The source code is at github.com/Wh1isper/mcp-email-server.

How do I install the MCP Email Server MCP server?

Add the command uvx mcp-email-server to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is MCP Email Server free?

The server is open source under the BSD-3-Clause license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is MCP Email Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 6, 2026. The latest release is 1.11.1, published Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.