fastmail-mcp and apple-mail-mcp
These tools are competitors, both providing Model Context Protocol servers for AI assistants to access email data, but for different email providers: Fastmail versus Apple Mail.
About fastmail-mcp
MadLlama25/fastmail-mcp
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to the Fastmail API, enabling AI assistants to interact with email, contacts, and calendar data. Includes a DXT (desktop extension) for Claude Desktop.
This project lets your AI assistant directly manage your Fastmail emails, contacts, and calendar. You can ask your AI to read, send, reply to, and organize emails, find contact information, or schedule calendar events. It acts as a bridge, taking your AI's requests and translating them into actions within your Fastmail account, making your AI a powerful personal assistant for your daily communications and scheduling.
About apple-mail-mcp
imdinu/apple-mail-mcp
Fast MCP server for Apple Mail — disk-first reads, 87x faster batch JXA, FTS5 search (700–3500x faster body search). 6 tools for Claude Desktop & Claude Code.
Implements a persistent FTS5 SQLite index built from `.emlx` files on disk, enabling full-text body search in ~20ms while avoiding AppleScript overhead entirely. Provides six MCP tools covering account/mailbox enumeration, filtered email retrieval, and attachment extraction, designed for Claude Desktop/Code integration on macOS with configurable index scope and exclusion rules.
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