Gmail MCP Server

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Gmail MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 30 Aug 2026.

MCP server for the Gmail API: search, read and send email, manage drafts, labels and the trash.

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npm · mcp-google-gmail

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30 Aug 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Gmail MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp-google-gmail -- npx -y mcp-google-gmail

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-google-gmail": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-google-gmail"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-google-gmail]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-google-gmail"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-google-gmail": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-google-gmail"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-google-gmail": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-google-gmail"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Gmail MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Gmail MCP?

Gmail MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package mcp-google-gmail.

How do I connect Gmail MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-google-gmail straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

Is Gmail MCP open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.