Email (IMAP/SMTP) MCP Server

Name: Email (IMAP/SMTP) MCP Server
Author: io.github.boutquin

io.github.boutquin/email

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What is the Email (IMAP/SMTP) MCP server?

Multi-account IMAP/SMTP email server with 22 tools for reading, sending, searching, and organizing.

How to install Email (IMAP/SMTP)

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE
Path to account JSON config file
EMAIL_ACCOUNTS
secret
Inline JSON array of account configs

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "email": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/boutquin/mcp-server-email:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE": "<YOUR_EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE>",
        "EMAIL_ACCOUNTS": "<YOUR_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "email": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/boutquin/mcp-server-email:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE": "<YOUR_EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE>",
        "EMAIL_ACCOUNTS": "<YOUR_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "email": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/boutquin/mcp-server-email:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE": "<YOUR_EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE>",
        "EMAIL_ACCOUNTS": "<YOUR_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "email": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/boutquin/mcp-server-email:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE": "<YOUR_EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE>",
        "EMAIL_ACCOUNTS": "<YOUR_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add email --env EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE=<YOUR_EMAIL_CONFIG_FILE> --env EMAIL_ACCOUNTS=<YOUR_EMAIL_ACCOUNTS> -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/boutquin/mcp-server-email:latest