Forward Email MCP Server

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Forward Email runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 75 installs a week from npm. Last commit 28 Sep 2026.

Privacy-focused email: domains, DNS verification, aliases, SMTP sending, mailboxes and calendars.

Installs per day peak 197 · avg 16 · -77% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · @forwardemail/mcp-server

Stars

0 open issues

28 Sep 2026

Last commit

1 release in 90 days

BUSL-1.1

License

JavaScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Forward Email 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-server -- npx -y @forwardemail/mcp-server

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@forwardemail/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-server]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@forwardemail/mcp-server"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@forwardemail/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@forwardemail/mcp-server"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: FORWARD_EMAIL_API_KEY (API key from https://forwardemail.net/my-account/security), FORWARD_EMAIL_ALIAS_USER (Alias address for the mailbox, calendar and contact tools), FORWARD_EMAIL_ALIAS_PASSWORD (Generated password for that alias). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Forward Email — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Forward Email?

Forward Email 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 @forwardemail/mcp-server was installed 75 times last week.

How do I connect Forward Email?

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 @forwardemail/mcp-server straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Forward Email?

The npm package @forwardemail/mcp-server was installed 75 times in the last week. Week over week that is -77%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Forward Email open source?

No, and the distinction matters: its licence is declared as BUSL-1.1. That makes it source-available — you can read the code, but the terms are the author's own, not one of the recognised open-source licences. Read them before you build on it.