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      "Title": "list_filters always returns empty despite filters existing",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug: `list_filters` returns no results when filters exist\n\n### Description\n\nThe `list_filters` tool always returns `\"No filters found\"` regardless of how many filters are actually configured in the Gmail account. The Gmail Settings UI and the exported XML both confirm filters exist — the tool is simply not returning them.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Have one or more filters configured in your Gmail account\n2. Call `list_filters` via the MCP server\n3. Observe: returns `\"No filters found\"`\n\n###",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/26",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-25T22:39:34.000Z",
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      "Title": "Publish maintained fork as an npm package",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\n\nThe README now points users at the maintained GitHub package spec:\n\n```bash\nnpx -y ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server@latest\n```\n\nThat works, but it is less familiar than a normal npm package name and can be confused with scoped package syntax.\n\n## Why publish to npm\n\n- Gives users a canonical install target such as `@artymclabin/gmail-mcp-server` or `gmail-mcp-server`.\n- Makes Claude Desktop and CLI config easier to read and less error-prone.\n- Avoids confusion around GitHub shorthand ver",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-04T10:35:30.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Error : Failed to list filters: invalid grant",
      "Excerpt": "It worked well on claude as a connector the first time, but afterwards it kept giving this error.  \n\nUnable to disconnect and reconnect it. Trying to disconnect or remove the connector gives 2 error prompts\n\n`Invalid server ID format. Expected UUID or mcpsrv_* tagged ID`\n`Failed to disconnect from the server`\n\nWhen i change the scope of auth to basic to get all tools\n\n```\nYou can't sign in to this app because it doesn't comply with Google's OAuth 2.0 policy for keeping apps secure.\n\nYou can let ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/25",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-21T13:37:14.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "feat: add report phishing action for Gmail messages",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\nGmail users often need a way to explicitly report messages as phishing, not just move them to Spam. The current MCP surface appears to support search, read, labels, move/delete, and filters, but it does not expose a dedicated phishing-report action.\n\n## Problem\nWhen a client asks to \"report phishing\", the server can only confirm that a message is already in Spam or offer adjacent actions such as delete, archive, or labeling. That falls short of the Gmail product behavior users expect ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-15T00:42:02.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "README contains commands referencing unmaintained fork, not this repo",
      "Excerpt": "The README commands say to do `npx @gongrzhe/server-gmail-autoauth-mcp auth`, but this fails because that's the old repo.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/22",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-11T12:14:01.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "feat: add thread-level archive/modify tool (threads.modify API)",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nCurrent `modify_email` operates per-message. Gmail labels (including INBOX) are per-message, not per-thread. When archiving a thread, callers must:\n1. Search for all messages in the thread with `in:inbox`\n2. Archive each messageId individually\n\nThis is error-prone — agents frequently archive only the latest message, leaving older unread messages in inbox that re-surface later.\n\n## Proposed Solution\n\nAdd a `modify_thread` (or `archive_thread`) tool that uses the Gmail API's `threads.m",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/17",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-04T14:48:44.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Docker support (community contribution welcome)",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\nThis fork is deliberately lean and stays a local stdio server — no Docker image is shipped by design (see the Philosophy section in the README). We're not adding Docker/containerization ourselves right now.\n\n## Why this issue exists\nA Docker image / Dockerfile would unlock a couple of nice-to-haves for people who want them:\n- Listing on directories that grade servers by starting + introspecting them (e.g. Glama's quality score, which currently can't evaluate a stdio server without a s",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/45",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-18T11:53:45.000Z",
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      "Title": "README.md out of date — source changed without docs update (29474ba)",
      "Excerpt": "## README gap detected by CI\n\nA push to `experimental` changed source code without updating README.md.\n\n- **Commit:** [`29474ba`](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/commit/29474bad73e2e7f64187cef2a753c0a5a5774623) — Merge pull request #35 from BrentBaccala/fix-oauth-refresh-token-persistence\n- **Branch:** `experimental`\n- **CI run:** https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/actions/runs/29101363000\n- **Source files changed:**\n```\nsrc/index.ts\n```\n\n### What to do\n1. Review the",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/42",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-10T14:50:45.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "[FEATURE] Gmail MCP Connector: expose GetMessageAttachment so inbound attachments can be read",
      "Excerpt": "The Gmail connector returns attachment metadata (id, filename, mimeType) but provides no tool to fetch attachment content. Attachments are visible and unreadable.\nThis is a narrower ask than #28575, which covers outbound attachments on gmail_create_draft (now shipped) and a send tool. This issue is about the inbound direction only, and it does not require any new capability — just surfacing something the connector’s own schema already references.\nEvidence the API already supports it\nThe Attachme",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/48",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-10T20:49:36.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "Allow other ports beside 3000 for the OAuth flow",
      "Excerpt": "# Summary\n\nThe auth command accepts a custom OAuth callback URL as a positional argument, but the local HTTP server that catches the redirect always binds to port 3000 and only matches the `/oauth2callback` path. As a result, passing any callback URL with a different port or path is accepted without error but the flow hangs — Google redirects to a port/path where nothing is listening.\n\n# Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Register a redirect URI with a non-3000 port in Google Cloud Console, e.g. `http://loc",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/40",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-08T21:34:41.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "delete_email fails with Insufficient Permission — requires https://mail.google.com/ scope, not gmail.modify",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug\n\n`delete_email` and `batch_delete_emails` return `Insufficient Permission` even when authenticated with `gmail.modify` scope.\n\n## Root Cause\n\nThe Gmail API `messages.delete` endpoint requires the `https://mail.google.com/` scope. `gmail.modify` is not sufficient for permanent deletion. This is documented in the [Gmail API reference](https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/reference/rest/v1/users.messages/delete).\n\n## Current Behavior\n\n- Authenticate with `gmail.modify,gmail.settings.basic",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/38",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-23T19:38:18.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "feat: schedule send emails",
      "Excerpt": "functionality so emails can be send be scheduled",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/36",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-09T18:03:10.000Z",
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      "Title": "README.md out of date — source changed without docs update (3e14d51)",
      "Excerpt": "## README gap detected by CI\n\nA push to `experimental` changed source code without updating README.md.\n\n- **Commit:** [`3e14d51`](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/commit/3e14d5180fe132eb2922100b8742ba77bf75ce8e) — test: add regression coverage for --tool-prefix resolution\n- **Branch:** `experimental`\n- **CI run:** https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/actions/runs/26300208950\n- **Source files changed:**\n```\nsrc/index.ts\nsrc/tool-prefix.test.ts\nsrc/tool-prefix.ts\n```\n\n###",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/34",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-22T16:41:24.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Unable to start session",
      "Excerpt": "I just attempted to set this up under Claude Desktop on Mac OS. A couple things:\n\n1. I was unable to specify a scope, just got a Google error \"bad request\"\n2. Claude spits back an error when I try to get it use the MCP: `Unable to start session. The authentication server returned an error (500). You can try again.`\n\nI don't know where to star to troubleshoot this.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/20",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-07T14:52:09.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Google Chat features",
      "Excerpt": "It'd be great to also support Google Chat :-)",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/16",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-26T04:06:39.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "feat: Add thread-level tools (get_thread, list_inbox_threads)",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nThe current MCP tools operate at the **message level** (`search_emails`, `read_email`), but email triage requires **thread-level context**. This causes critical misreads:\n\n- `search_emails` with `in:inbox` only finds messages with the INBOX label — sent replies are invisible\n- Deduplicating search results by threadId loses thread history (only the \"most recent in inbox\" survives)\n- No way to get all messages in a thread in one call — requires multiple searches + reads with no guarant",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/12",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-10T09:33:11.000Z",
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