IMAP mailbox MCP Server

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IMAP mailbox runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 31 Aug 2026.

Read, search and organise any IMAP mailbox, with writes off by default

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npm · @ni-c/imap-mcp

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31 Aug 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check IMAP mailbox 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 imap-mcp -- npx -y @ni-c/imap-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "imap-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ni-c/imap-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.imap-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@ni-c/imap-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "imap-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ni-c/imap-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "imap-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@ni-c/imap-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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IMAP mailbox — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for IMAP mailbox?

IMAP mailbox 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 @ni-c/imap-mcp.

How do I connect IMAP mailbox?

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 @ni-c/imap-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

Is IMAP mailbox 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.