Apple Mail MCP

@imdinu

4 months ago

Fast MCP server for Apple Mail on macOS. Uses batch JXA for 87x faster email fetching and an FTS5 search index for ~2ms email body search (700-3500x faster than alternatives). 5 read tools: list accounts, list mailboxes, get emails, get single email, and search (by subject, sender, or body). Write operations coming soon.

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Overview

Apple Mail MCP

Fast MCP server for Apple Mail on macOS — 87x faster email fetching via batch JXA, plus an FTS5 search index for ~2ms email body search (700–3500x faster than alternatives).

Features

5 read tools: list accounts, list mailboxes, get emails, get single email, search
Search scopes: subject, sender, body, or all at once
FTS5 search index: SQLite full-text search with Porter stemming — body search in ~2ms
Batch JXA: fetches 50 emails in 529ms vs 15s+ for other servers
Benchmarked: tested against 7 other Apple Mail MCP servers at the MCP protocol level

Quick Start

pipx install apple-mail-mcp
apple-mail-mcp index --verbose

Documentation: https://imdinu.github.io/apple-mail-mcp/

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Server Config

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

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