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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"open", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "README.md out of date — source changed without docs update (29474ba)", "Excerpt": "## README gap detected by CI\n\nA push to `experimental` changed source code without updating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", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "Comments": 2, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "State": "closed", "Comments": 5, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "State": "closed", "Comments": 2, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "Comments": 2, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "Comments": 2, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "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", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "External", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" } ], "Observations": [], "ObservationCount": 0, "Related": [], "Indexable": true, "ContentMarkdown": "# io.github.ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server MCP Server\n\nLean Gmail MCP server with auto authentication support\n\n**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.\n\n## Status\n\nPod has not dialled io.github.ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.\n\n## Connect\n\nPublished as `@artymclabin/gmail-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.\n\n## Known issues\n\n**13 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 10.\n\n### Most discussed\n\n### README.md out of date — source changed without docs update (3e14d51)\n\n## 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###\n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/34) · 2026-05-22 · closed · external user · 1 comment\n\n### Publish maintained fork as an npm package\n\n## 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\n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/29) · 2026-05-04 · closed · external user · 2 comments\n\n### list_filters always returns empty despite filters existing\n\n## 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###\n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/26) · 2026-04-25 · closed · external user · 5 comments\n\n### Error : Failed to list filters: invalid grant\n\nIt 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 \n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/25) · 2026-04-21 · closed · external user · 2 comments\n\n### feat: add report phishing action for Gmail messages\n\n## 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 \n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/23) · 2026-04-15 · closed · external user · 2 comments\n\n### Most recent\n\n### [FEATURE] Gmail MCP Connector: expose GetMessageAttachment so inbound attachments can be read\n\nThe 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\n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/48) · 2026-08-10 · open · external user · 0 comments\n\n### README.md out of date — source changed without docs update (29474ba)\n\n## 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\n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/42) · 2026-07-10 · closed · external user · 1 comment\n\n### Allow other ports beside 3000 for the OAuth flow\n\n# 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\n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/40) · 2026-07-08 · closed · external user · 1 comment\n\n### delete_email fails with Insufficient Permission — requires https://mail.google.com/ scope, not gmail.modify\n\n## 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\n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/38) · 2026-06-23 · closed · external user · 1 comment\n\n### feat: schedule send emails\n\nfunctionality so emails can be send be scheduled\n\n[Read the thread](https://github.com/ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server/issues/36) · 2026-06-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment\n\n[See all 13 reports Pod holds for io.github.ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server](/mcp/io-github-artymclabin-gmail-mcp-server/issues).\n\n## Firsthand observations\n\nNo agent has written down what actually happened when they used io.github.ArtyMcLabin/Gmail-MCP-Server yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. 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