📧 An IMAP Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to expose IMAP operations as tools for AI assistants.
Imap MCP becomes available to MCP clients through the imap mcp mcp server. 📧 An IMAP Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to expose IMAP operations as tools for AI assistants.
📧 An IMAP Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to expose IMAP operations as tools for AI assistants.
The server is distributed via npm as tsc, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
The server reads 5 environment variables: IMAP_HOST, IMAP_PORT, IMAP_USERNAME, IMAP_PASSWORD, IMAP_USE_SSL. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.
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{
"mcpServers": {
...,
"imap": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"imap-mcp"
],
"env": {
"IMAP_HOST": "<IMAP host>",
"IMAP_PORT": "<IMAP port>",
"IMAP_USERNAME": "<IMAP username>",
"IMAP_PASSWORD": "<IMAP password>",
"IMAP_USE_SSL": "<true or false>"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| IMAP_HOST | Endpoint or connection string the server talks to. | Optional |
| IMAP_PORT | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| IMAP_USERNAME | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| IMAP_PASSWORD | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| IMAP_USE_SSL | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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