Apple Mail MCP Server

The only Apple Mail MCP server with **full-coverage body search** — reliable on large mailboxes where AppleScript-based servers timeout. 8 tools for

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What is the Apple Mail MCP MCP server?

Most team communication work still happens through a UI a human drives. Apple Mail MCP MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. The only Apple Mail MCP server with full-coverage body search — reliable on large mailboxes where AppleScript-based servers timeout. 8 tools for reading, searching, and extracting email content.

Getting it running

The server ships on PyPI as apple-mail-mcp, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.

What it needs from you

Configuration is passed through the environment: APPLE_MAIL_DEFAULT_ACCOUNT. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.

How it compares

This sits in the team communication group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by imdinu; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Things to watch

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

How to install the Apple Mail MCP MCP server

Add to your MCP client:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mail": {
      "command": "apple-mail-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
APPLE_MAIL_DEFAULT_ACCOUNTConfiguration value read at startup.Optional

Frequently asked questions

It connects Apple Mail MCP to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Apple Mail MCP directly.