Mailwarden MCP Server

What the code does

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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.

    spawn(cmd, args, {

    out = lambda name: os.path.join(here, name)

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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.

claude mcp add mailwarden -- npx -y mailwarden

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mailwarden": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mailwarden"
      ]
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.mailwarden]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mailwarden"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mailwarden": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mailwarden"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "mailwarden": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mailwarden"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: MAILWARDEN_DIR (Config directory (default ~/.mailwarden), holds credentials.json and token.json), MAILWARDEN_CREDENTIALS (Path to the Google OAuth credentials.json (Desktop app client)), MAILWARDEN_AUTO_SWEEP (Set to 1 to sweep due snoozes at startup and hourly while running), MAILWARDEN_DOWNLOAD_DIR (Restrict download_attachment and export_thread writes to this directory (recommended for HTTP hosting)).