Email Sending MCP 💌 MCP Server

The official MCP server to send emails and interact with Resend

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What is the Email Sending MCP 💌 MCP server?

The official MCP server to send emails and interact with Resend. Exposed over MCP by the email sending mcp 💌 mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.

What it actually does

Connect your AI agent to the Resend platform. Send and receive emails, manage contacts, broadcasts, domains, and more, directly from any MCP client like Claude, Cursor, or Claude Code.

Its toolset

Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:

  • Emails — Send, list, get, cancel, update, and batch send emails. Supports HTML, plain text, attachments (local file, URL, or base64), CC/BCC, reply-to
  • Templates — Create, list, get, update, publish, duplicate, and remove email templates. Supports composing template content and {{{VARIABLE}}} placeholders
  • Contacts — Create, list, get, update, and remove contacts. Manage segment memberships, topic subscriptions, and CSV contact imports. Supports custom contact
  • Broadcasts — Create, send, list, get, update, and remove broadcast campaigns. Supports scheduling, personalization placeholders, and preview text
  • Automations — Create, list, get, update, and remove automations. Review the runs of an automation
  • Events — Send events to trigger automations for a contact. Create, update, and remove event definitions
  • Domains — Create, list, get, update, remove, and verify sender domains. Configure tracking, TLS, and sending/receiving capabilities. Create and verify domain
  • Segments — Create, list, get, and remove audience segments
  • Suppressions — List, get, add, and remove suppression list entries, individually or in batch. Hard bounces and spam complaints are suppressed automatically; add
  • Topics — Create, list, get, update, and remove subscription topics
  • Webhooks — Create, list, get, update, and remove webhooks for event notifications
  • Logs — List and inspect API request logs, including full request and response bodies

Adding it to your client

Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.

Configuration

You will need 2 environment variables: RESEND_API_KEY, SENDER_EMAIL_ADDRESS. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.

When to reach for it

Plenty of team communication servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Email Sending MCP 💌's toolset — Emails, Templates, Contacts and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by resend; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

Caveats

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • With 14 tools registered it takes up a noticeable share of the context window; turn it off in projects that never touch Email Sending MCP 💌.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the email sending mcp 💌 mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
EmailsSend, list, get, cancel, update, and batch send emails. Supports HTML, plain text, attachments (local file, URL, or base64), CC/BCC, reply-to, scheduling, tags, custom headers, topic-based sending, and idempotency keys.
TemplatesCreate, list, get, update, publish, duplicate, and remove email templates. Supports composing template content and {{{VARIABLE}}} placeholders.
ContactsCreate, list, get, update, and remove contacts. Manage segment memberships, topic subscriptions, and CSV contact imports. Supports custom contact properties.
BroadcastsCreate, send, list, get, update, and remove broadcast campaigns. Supports scheduling, personalization placeholders, and preview text.
AutomationsCreate, list, get, update, and remove automations. Review the runs of an automation.
EventsSend events to trigger automations for a contact. Create, update, and remove event definitions.
DomainsCreate, list, get, update, remove, and verify sender domains. Configure tracking, TLS, and sending/receiving capabilities. Create and verify domain claims.
SegmentsCreate, list, get, and remove audience segments.
SuppressionsList, get, add, and remove suppression list entries, individually or in batch. Hard bounces and spam complaints are suppressed automatically; add addresses manually to honor do-not-contact requests.
TopicsCreate, list, get, update, and remove subscription topics.
WebhooksCreate, list, get, update, and remove webhooks for event notifications.
LogsList and inspect API request logs, including full request and response bodies.
EditorConnect to (and disconnect from) the visual editor in the Resend dashboard, and read a draft's content while collaborating on broadcasts and templates.
ClaudeIn Claude (web or desktop), open **Settings** > **Connectors** > **Add custom connector** and enter:

How to install the Email Sending MCP 💌 MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "resend": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.resend.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
RESEND_API_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
SENDER_EMAIL_ADDRESSConfiguration value read at startup.Optional

Example prompts to try

  • Use Email Sending MCP 💌 to Emails.
  • Use Email Sending MCP 💌 to Templates.
  • Use Email Sending MCP 💌 to Contacts.

Frequently asked questions

The remote server is hosted by Resend at `mcp.resend.com/mcp`, requires no installation, and uses OAuth. The local server runs via `npx` and uses your Resend API key directly.