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MCP Server Imap

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MCP Server Imap runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 152 installs a week from npm. Last commit 10 Aug 2026.

Email tools for any IMAP/SMTP provider: list, read, search, send, and manage messages.

Installs per day peak 87 · avg 31 · +109% w/w
a month agotoday
152
Installs / week
npm · @aiwerk/mcp-server-imap
1
Stars
0 open issues
10 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

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

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-server-imap -- npx -y @aiwerk/mcp-server-imap
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-imap": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@aiwerk/mcp-server-imap"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-server-imap]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@aiwerk/mcp-server-imap"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-imap": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@aiwerk/mcp-server-imap"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-imap": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@aiwerk/mcp-server-imap"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: IMAP_HOST (IMAP server hostname (e.g. imap.gmail.com).), IMAP_USER (IMAP account username / email address.), IMAP_PASS (IMAP account password or app-specific password.), SMTP_HOST (SMTP server hostname, required to send email.), SMTP_USER (SMTP account username (defaults to IMAP_USER if unset).), SMTP_PASS (SMTP account password (defaults to IMAP_PASS if unset).). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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MCP Server Imap — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Server Imap?
MCP Server Imap 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 @aiwerk/mcp-server-imap was installed 152 times last week.
How do I connect MCP Server Imap?
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 @aiwerk/mcp-server-imap straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use MCP Server Imap?
The npm package @aiwerk/mcp-server-imap was installed 152 times in the last week. Week over week that is +109%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is MCP Server Imap open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 1 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.