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dead-letter runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 189 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 18 Sep 2026.

Convert .eml email exports to Markdown with YAML front matter

Installs per day peak 417 · avg 42 · -8% w/w
a month agotoday
189
Installs / week
pypi · dead-letter
8
Stars
6 open issues
18 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 2 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

                subprocess.Popen(["open", str(cabinet_path)])

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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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 dead-letter -- uvx dead-letter
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dead-letter": {
      "args": [
        "dead-letter"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.dead-letter]
command = "uvx"
args = ["dead-letter"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dead-letter": {
      "args": [
        "dead-letter"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dead-letter": {
      "args": [
        "dead-letter"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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dead-letter — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for dead-letter?
dead-letter 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 pypi package dead-letter was installed 189 times last week.
How do I connect dead-letter?
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 dead-letter straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use dead-letter?
The pypi package dead-letter was installed 189 times in the last week. Week over week that is -8%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is dead-letter open source?
We cannot say either way: written in Python, 8 stars on GitHub and 6 open issues, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.