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gmail-mcp MCP Server

Multi-account Gmail on a Cloudflare Worker you deploy yourself: read, send, reply, labels, threads

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10 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 7.

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Notes from a production deployment

First, thank you for this project. We needed exactly one thing that Anthropic's built-in Gmail connector doesn't do — return the contents of an attachment — and gmail-mcp was the only self-hostable option we found that treats the Google credential as something the operator keeps. The commit history was a large part of why we chose it: spend a one-time state when it is read, not after it is checked and drop a client-supplied grant header at the boundary are not the commits of someone who

Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · open · external user · 0 comments

Decide when to adopt the 2026-07-28 MCP specification

The 2026-07-28 revision makes the protocol stateless: the initialize handshake and the Mcp-Session-Id header are retired, each request carries its own identity and capabilities in _meta, method and tool names move into Mcp-Method and Mcp-Name headers, and Dynamic Client Registration is deprecated in favour of Client ID Metadata Documents.

The session model is load-bearing here. The Durable Object is addressed as streamable-http:${sessionId}, and the owner claim in its storage, `isOw

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list_drafts sends metadataHeaders to an endpoint that has no such parameter

list_drafts requests format=metadata with metadataHeaders=To&metadataHeaders=Cc&…. The users.drafts.get method accepts only format, id and userId; Google's frontend ignores unknown query parameters rather than rejecting them, so the call returns every header instead of the four intended.

Nothing fails. Draft header blocks are small, so the cost is a little wasted payload per draft. Removing the parameters is near-zero risk and buys correspondingly little.

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inlinePart has no Content-ID length guard

filePart measures its assembled header lines and refuses a filename that cannot fit. inlinePart validates the shape of a Content-ID but not its length, so a cid above roughly 985 characters produces a header line past 998 octets.

The value is caller-supplied and nothing plausible writes one that long. Gmail refuses the send either way, so the outcome is an error with a less useful message.

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create_draft refuses a subject carrying a line break

assertHeaderSafe rejects any header value containing CR or LF, and a test pins that subject: "s\nX-Evil: 1" throws. That is deliberate: refusing an injection attempt in a caller-supplied subject is the safe answer.

It also blocks an ordinary flow. Gmail returns some notification subjects with a trailing newline — Search Console and Google Store both do — so a model that reads a subject with get_message and passes it to create_draft, send_message or update_draft gets a hard error nam

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get_thread's oversize fallback retains maxMessages × 6 MB

The normal get_thread path bounds a whole thread to one 6 MB response. When that response is refused, the fallback lists message ids and fetches a window individually, each capped at 6 MB, and holds every parsed message before the character budget trims anything at src/index.ts:485.

Measured through the handler: a fallback over 24 messages, each carrying a 1,000,000-character encoded body, fetched and retained all 24 and grew process RSS by 286,212,096 bytes. Cloudflare allows [128 MB per i

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fitsHeaderLine measures characters against a limit that means octets

MAX_HEADER_RUN (900) exists to keep a header line inside RFC 5322's 998-octet cap, but fitsHeaderLine in src/gmail.ts compares run.length, which counts UTF-16 code units. A run outside ASCII therefore passes a check it should fail.

Two entry points reach it:

The outcome is a refusal from Gmail rather th

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