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thunderbird-cli MCP Server

Give AI agents full read/write email access via Mozilla Thunderbird. Zero credentials.

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Published as thunderbird-cli-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

sort=date on /messages/list sorts only the already-limited page, not the full result set

Bug: sort/sortOrder on /messages/list sorts only the already-limited page, not the full result set

Summary

When calling email_list (MCP) / POST /messages/list (bridge) with sort: "date" and a limit, the response can silently return stale/wrong results instead of the true top-N by date — with no error, making it hard to notice.

Root cause

In extension/src/background.js, the /messages/list handler collects messages up to limit first (via collectMessages

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

WebSocket listener on :7701 accepts any local connection and overwrites the extension slot

Follow-up to #21, which added TB_AUTH_TOKEN enforcement on the bridge's HTTP listener. That token deliberately does not cover the WebSocket listener, and this issue is to discuss what should.

The gap

bridge/bridge.js accepts extension connections with no authentication and no arbitration:

const wss = new WebSocketServer({ host: "127.0.0.1", port: WS_PORT });
// ...
extensionSocket = ws;   // unconditional

extension/src/background.js connects to a hardcoded `ws://127.0.0.1:

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

[BUG] Full accounts / tool access regardless of authorizatons given

Description

All accounts and tools are available to the model, though MCP tool call on LMStudio, regardless of authorizations.

Environment

  • OS: Fedora Silverblue 44
  • Thunderbird version: 140.13.0esr (64 bits)
  • Node.js version: 24.18.1
  • thunderbird-cli version: 0.7.4
  • Component affected: extension

Reproduction steps

  1. Start thunderbird desktop
  2. Setup authorizations
  3. Restart extension
  4. Run command: tb-bridge
  5. Run LMStudio and ask for email send

Expected behavior

Wo

Read the thread · 2026-08-03 · open · external user · 1 comment

Full-text (body) search is unreliable / times out on large mailboxes, and timeout is indistinguishable from "no results"

I've been using this connector to let an AI assistant search my Thunderbird mail via MCP. The full-text (body) search consistently times out (TIMEOUT error) when searching folders with 1,000+ messages, or when the date range isn't narrowed down significantly. This happens even though "download messages for offline use" is fully enabled for all folders in the account, so Thunderbird's own local index/search works instantly and correctly for the same terms.

Worse, when the search times out, the t

Read the thread · 2026-07-09 · open · external user · 0 comments

[FEATURE] Expose tag write (add/remove) in MCP email_mark

What problem does this solve?

Agents that triage email using IMAP keyword tags (e.g. $label1 for important) can't set tags via MCP. email_search filters by tag and the backend writes tags via /messages/update, but the MCP layer only exposes read/flagged/junk through email_mark. Flagged/starred isn't enough: tags sync across devices and carry semantic meaning, which is what a persistent triage workflow needs.

Proposed solution

Add an optional tags param to email_mark (or a dedi

Read the thread · 2026-07-03 · open · external user · 0 comments

Firsthand observations

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  • 5 problems reported from outside the maintainer team
  • No tool list published — Pod has not verified what it exposes
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