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mail-index runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 95 installs a week from npm. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.

Local-first, read-only MCP server for recall over your Gmail: search, contacts, threads, digests.

Installs per day peak 48 · avg 11 · +22% w/w
a month agotoday
95
Installs / week
npm · mail-index
4
Stars
12 open issues
28 Oct 2026
Last commit
2 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 4 d ago · rules 995398eba69f

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

    const child = spawn(process.execPath, [join(here, 'selfupdate.mjs')], {
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.

    const child = spawn(process.execPath, [join(here, 'selfupdate.mjs')], {
Page executes code built at runtime deck/index.html:496
    el.innerHTML = el.innerHTML.split(/<br\s*\/?>/i)

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

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch mail-index and you get told the day something new turns up.

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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 mail-index -- npx -y mail-index
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mail-index": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mail-index"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mail-index]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mail-index"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mail-index": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mail-index"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mail-index": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mail-index"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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mail-index — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for mail-index?
mail-index 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 mail-index was installed 95 times last week.
How do I connect mail-index?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mail-index straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use mail-index?
The npm package mail-index was installed 95 times in the last week. Week over week that is +22%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is mail-index open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 4 stars on GitHub and 12 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.