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Agent Email MCP Server

Local email connectivity for AI agents — read, draft, send, and organize Outlook mail via MCP

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Published as email-agent-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

75 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

ops: complete Google OAuth verification for gmail.modify

Current state

Google Auth Platform project email-agent-mcp-gmail (160133826181) is External and In production, with verified branding. The Gmail API and billing are enabled.

The July 23, 2026 Console export shows:

Read the thread · 2026-07-22 · open · 4 comments

Wire strip_signatures from read_email action through to MCP tool

Summary

The read_email MCP tool currently does not expose the strip_signatures parameter that the underlying readEmailAction already supports. This follow-up was deferred from #76 (out-of-scope per the original issue) and is now unblocked since #76 refactored MCP read_email to be a thin adapter over readEmailAction.run().

Background

After #76 landed, packages/email-mcp/src/server.ts read_email delegates to readEmailAction.run() but hardcodes strip_signatures: false for

Read the thread · 2026-05-08 · closed · 3 comments

Dead in-memory mailboxStore in email-core: four unreachable actions the MCP server bypasses with a 10-line apology

Summary

packages/email-core/src/actions/configure.ts maintains an in-memory mailboxStore (configure.ts:20) read/written by configureMailboxAction, removeMailboxAction, and listMailboxesAction (configure.ts:116), and getMailboxStatusAction (packages/email-core/src/actions/status.ts:52) reads the same store via getMailboxStore() (status.ts:4,62). No production code path ever populates that store, so all four actions are unreachable dead code:

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 2 comments

Expose the existing list_mailboxes action in the public MCP tool surface

Summary

The repository already contains a list_mailboxes action and a matching specification, but it does not appear to be exposed as an MCP tool in the public server surface. As a result, an MCP client inspecting the available tools today cannot enumerate configured mailboxes without falling back to undocumented behavior (e.g. calling get_mailbox_status with no mailbox argument and inspecting what it returns — which, on inspection of the code, returns the default mailbox's status, not

Read the thread · 2026-05-20 · closed · 2 comments

Add scheduled send (deferred delivery) for outbound email

Summary

The MCP server can create drafts and send messages immediately, but has no way to schedule a message to be delivered at a future time. Users who want "send Friday at 8 AM" or "hold this until tomorrow morning so it lands at the top of the recipient's inbox" currently have to either click around the Outlook UI manually or roll their own Graph calls.

This is a common pattern when an agent assists with outbound communication on a deadline (e.g., "draft this and queue it for tomorrow mor

Read the thread · 2026-04-28 · closed · 2 comments

Most recent

Outlook attachment download can fail when a host shortens long REST IDs

Problem

Some MCP hosts can expose Microsoft Graph's long default REST IDs with a middle segment missing. Passing that altered message or attachment ID back to download_attachment makes Graph return ErrorInvalidIdMalformed.

Reproduction evidence

Read the thread · 2026-08-27 · closed · 0 comments

send_email: non-ASCII Subject is not RFC 2047-encoded and ends up triple UTF-8 encoded (mojibake); body is fine

Summary

When sending mail whose Subject contains non-ASCII characters (e.g. CJK), the delivered Subject: header is garbled. The body is encoded correctly (quoted-printable UTF-8), so this is specific to header handling. Two defects combine:

  1. The Gmail provider never RFC 2047-encodes header values — non-ASCII subjects are placed raw into the header.
  2. The subject string is additionally double-encoded upstream before it reaches the provider, so the bytes on the wire are *

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

create_draft unnecessarily requires to when reply_to can derive recipients

Summary

create_draft requires an explicit to value even when reply_to is supplied:

MISSING_FIELD: to is required — provide it as a parameter or in body_file frontmatter

That requirement is redundant on a threaded reply. The provider already knows the parent message and can derive the sender-only or reply-all recipient set from reply_to plus reply_all.

This is the remaining edge after #164. That issue correctly fixed a worse bug where a caller-supplied to was requir

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · closed · 0 comments

email-mcp: derive the MCP tool list from EMAIL_ACTIONS (follow-up to #174, after server.ts mailbox rewrite merges)

Summary

Follow-up to #174 (fixed in #180). Now that EMAIL_ACTIONS in @usejunior/email-core is a populated canonical registry (28 actions), packages/email-mcp/src/server.ts should derive its core-backed MCP tools from it instead of the hand-maintained list of wrapAction(...) calls (~line 1058 onward), fulfilling the "Action to Tool Mapping" requirement in openspec/specs/mcp-transport/spec.md ("WHEN a new action is added to EMAIL_ACTIONS in email-core THEN it automatically appears

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · open · 0 comments

LazyProviderState keeps two representations of "which mailboxes exist", bridged by a fallback that fabricates emailAddress from a display name

Summary

LazyProviderState (packages/email-mcp/src/server.ts:41-53) carries two representations of "which mailboxes exist":

Because the two can disagree, fallbackConnectedMailbox() (server.ts:406-420) exists to synthesize a plural entry from the singular fields whenever mailboxes[] is empty, and getKnownMailboxes() (server.ts:422-424) bridges every consumer

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

email-core: EMAIL_ACTIONS registry is permanently empty — public API exports a dead, always-[] array

Summary

packages/email-core/src/actions/registry.ts declares itself the "single source of truth for all email actions" (line 1), but nothing in the codebase ever calls registerAction() — so the EMAIL_ACTIONS array exported as public API from the published npm package @usejunior/email-core (0.1.11) is permanently empty at runtime, while the real tool list is hand-maintained in packages/email-mcp/src/server.ts.

Evidence (validated by an executed Codex peer review)

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

Action-layer retry wraps non-idempotent send operations: ambiguous failures can double-send, and Graph/Gmail errors bypass the retryable-error contract

Summary

withRetry (packages/email-core/src/providers/provider.ts:239) wraps the three delivery boundaries — send_email → provider.sendMessage (packages/email-core/src/actions/send.ts:231), reply_to_email → provider.replyToMessage (packages/email-core/src/actions/reply.ts:226), and send_draft → provider.sendDraft (packages/email-core/src/actions/draft.ts:313) — with { maxRetries: 3 } (4 total attempts). Its only non-retry escape hatch is `err instanceof ProviderError && !err

Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

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