mcp-mail-server and apple-mail-mcp
These are competitor MCP servers, both providing email functionality for AI assistants but designed for different platforms and emphasizing distinct optimizations: A for general IMAP/SMTP via TypeScript with Claude in Cursor IDE, and B specifically for Apple Mail with performance enhancements for JXA and FTS5 search.
About mcp-mail-server
yunfeizhu/mcp-mail-server
A lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides IMAP and SMTP email functionality for AI assistants like Claude in Cursor IDE. Built with TypeScript and optimized for easy deployment via npm/npx.
This tool helps AI assistants like Claude or Cursor interact with your email inbox and send messages. It takes natural language commands about emails (e.g., "show me unread emails from today") and performs actions like searching, reading, managing, and sending emails. The output is email content, attachment details, or status confirmations, empowering individual AI assistant users to manage their communications.
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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