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Reported issues for Apple Mail MCP

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Most discussed

search() cannot distinguish a missing index from a genuine no-match, so an unbuilt index reads as an empty mailbox

search() cannot distinguish "no index" from "no match", so an unbuilt or stale index looks exactly like a genuinely empty result. On my install that cost roughly four months of silently empty searches, on a mailbox of 18,232 emails that would have matched constantly.

Filing this with the backing of the Dex project, where the same problem is tracked as davekilleen/Dex#446. Dave (the maintainer there) asked me to bring it here directly since I have the reproduction. Happy to send a PR if the sh

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

PermissionError escapes both no-FDA fallbacks: get_emails() fails outright, and attachment reads report "not found"

Running without Full Disk Access — which the docs describe as supported ("The MCP server itself does not need Full Disk Access — only the index and rebuild commands do", docs/troubleshooting.md) — two code paths fail in ways that look like different bugs but share one root cause.

PermissionError subclasses OSError, not FileNotFoundError. Both sites below have a handler that clearly intends to cover an unreadable Mail store, and PermissionError walks straight past it.

Happy to

Read the thread · 2026-08-07 · open · external user · 2 comments

Two concurrent --watch instances (Claude Desktop spawns MCP servers twice) cause write storm, unbounded WAL growth and blocked FTS searches

Environment

Summary

Claude Desktop structurally spawns two instances of every configured MCP server — one for Desktop chats and one for the Claude Code bridge. When both instances run with serve --watch, the two watchfiles watchers operate on the same SQLite database (~/.apple-mail-mcp/index.db, WAL mode) and get into a sustained write storm.

Symptoms

Read the thread · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Feature request: APPLE_MAIL_INDEX_EXCLUDE_ACCOUNTS for account-level index exclusion

Summary

Request a new environment variable APPLE_MAIL_INDEX_EXCLUDE_ACCOUNTS (comma-separated, like the existing APPLE_MAIL_INDEX_EXCLUDE_MAILBOXES) that excludes entire accounts from the index at build time.

Motivation

APPLE_MAIL_INDEX_EXCLUDE_MAILBOXES matches by mailbox name only, with no account-qualified syntax. This works fine for excluding category folders like Drafts (the default), but fails for the common case of wanting to exclude an entire account whose mailboxes have g

Read the thread · 2026-05-22 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Attachment Download Error

Always got error: attachment not found when run with cloude coworker. But can got it when via MCP Inspector.

get_email_attachment Request

{ "message_id": 437629, "filename": "GCEMEARSD0000290714-2.pdf", "account": "info@playlingo.app", "mailbox": "[Gmail]" } Error

Error calling tool 'get_email_attachment': Attachment 'GCEMEARSD0000290714-2.pdf' not found in email 437629.

Read the thread · 2026-04-03 · closed · external user · 2 comments

MCS server is disconnected

When claude desktop started i got this notification

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log:

2026-04-03T08:20:33.103Z [mail] [info] Initializing server... { metadata: undefined } 2026-04-03T08:20:33.105Z [mail] [info] Using MCP server command: apple-mail-mcp with args and path: { metadata: { args: [ [length]: 0 ], paths: [ '/usr/local/bin', '/opt/homebrew/bin', '/usr/bi

Read the thread · 2026-04-03 · closed · external user · 0 comments

get_email type coercion + search mailbox scope + scheduled mode failures

Bug Report — Three related issues in scheduled/automated mode

Environment

Bug 1: get_email — message_id type coercion in scheduled mode

When called from a scheduled task, message_id is passed as a string instead of an integer. The tool rejects it with a type error, making it impossible to read email bodies in any automated context.

Workaround: None reliable. Triage falls back to m

Read the thread · 2026-03-27 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Large mailboxes timeout on startup

I have a lot of emails (400,000+). I can build the index, but every time I open Claude, the MCP server takes too long to traverse all the email (needs about 2 minutes) and as a result Claude pops up an error message saying that it cannot connect to the MCP server.

It would be great if you can find a way to support large mailboxes. Perhaps the software could do the start-up scan in the background, so that it can still respond to Claude when it tries to connect to the MCP server?

Thanks

Read the thread · 2026-03-04 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Most recent

get_emails() silently returns [] for Gmail-backed accounts: Envelope Index fast path misses label-based mailbox membership

Problem

On 0.4.0/0.4.1, get_emails(account, mailbox) returns an empty list for Gmail-backed accounts even when the mailbox has plenty of mail. No error is raised, so the JXA fallback never runs and the caller gets a silently wrong empty result.

Repro (real mailbox, macOS 14, Mail V10)

get_emails(account="<gmail account>", mailbox="INBOX") returned [] for an INBOX that AppleScript confirms holds 104 messages.

Root cause

The Strategy-0 fast path assumes mailbox membership is ex

Read the thread · 2026-06-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Alternative install fix for Claude Desktop — cyclopts dependency conflict

Alternative install method for Claude Desktop (macOS) — cyclopts dependency fix

For anyone hitting package resolution errors with uvx apple-mail-mcp@latest, the fix is to enable pre-release dependencies explicitly:

In your claude_desktop_config.json:

"apple-mail": {
  "command": "uvx",
  "args": ["--prerelease=allow", "apple-mail-mcp@latest"]
}

The --prerelease=allow flag resolves the cyclopts>=5.0.0a1 dependency conflict that causes the install to fail silently. Conf

Read the thread · 2026-04-28 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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