Email MCP
Email MCP is an MCP server that adds messaging tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. IMAP/SMTP email MCP server — 52 tools, stdio + HTTP, IMAP IDLE push, multi-account, AI triage. It has 125 GitHub stars, is released under the LGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with npx -y @codefuturist/email-mcp.
- Communication
- LGPL-3.0
- Maintained
Install Email MCP
Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"email-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@codefuturist/email-mcp"
]
}
}
}Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport stdio email-mcp -- npx -y @codefuturist/email-mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"email-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@codefuturist/email-mcp"
]
}
}
}Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.
VS Code
{
"servers": {
"email-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@codefuturist/email-mcp"
]
}
}
}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 Email MCP
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server providing comprehensive email capabilities via IMAP and SMTP. Enables AI assistants to read, search, send, manage, schedule, and analyze emails across multiple accounts. Exposes 47 tools, 7 prompts, and 6 resources over the MCP protocol with OAuth2 support (experimental), email scheduling, calendar extraction, analytics, provider-aware label management, real-time IMAP IDLE watcher with AI-powered triage, customizable presets and static rules, and a guided…
- ai
- imap
- llm
- mcp
- mcp-server
- model-context-protocol
- nodemailer
- smtp
- typescript
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What is Email MCP?
Email MCP is an MCP server that adds messaging tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. IMAP/SMTP email MCP server — 52 tools, stdio + HTTP, IMAP IDLE push, multi-account, AI triage. It has 125 GitHub stars, is released under the LGPL-3.0 license and runs locally with npx -y @codefuturist/email-mcp. The source code is at github.com/codefuturist/email-mcp.
How do I install the Email MCP MCP server?
Add the command npx -y @codefuturist/email-mcp 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 Email MCP free?
The server is open source under the LGPL-3.0 license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.
Is Email MCP actively maintained?
The most recent commit was on May 20, 2026. The latest release is v0.5.1, published Sep 26, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.