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 369 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
Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.
Claude Desktop
{
"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-serverCursor
{
"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
{
"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.
- mcp
- mcp-server
- email-server
- fastmcp
- imap
- model-context-protocol
- multi-account
- python
- smtp
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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 25, 2026. The latest release is 1.13.3, published Oct 25, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.