Apple Mail

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add apple-mcp-mail -e APPLE_MAIL_MCP_SAFETY_PROFILE=... -e APPLE_MAIL_MCP_ALLOWED_ATTACHMENT_ROOT=... -e APPLE_MAIL_MCP_VISIBLE_DRAFTS=... -- uvx apple-mcp-mail

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-mcp-mail": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "apple-mcp-mail"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APPLE_MAIL_MCP_SAFETY_PROFILE": "...",
        "APPLE_MAIL_MCP_ALLOWED_ATTACHMENT_ROOT": "...",
        "APPLE_MAIL_MCP_VISIBLE_DRAFTS": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Read, search, compose, and send emails via Apple Mail on macOS.

Questions

Apple Mail is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package apple-mcp-mail.

Run: claude mcp add apple-mcp-mail -e APPLE_MAIL_MCP_SAFETY_PROFILE=... -e APPLE_MAIL_MCP_ALLOWED_ATTACHMENT_ROOT=... -e APPLE_MAIL_MCP_VISIBLE_DRAFTS=... -- uvx apple-mcp-mail

Run: codex mcp add apple-mcp-mail --env APPLE_MAIL_MCP_SAFETY_PROFILE=... --env APPLE_MAIL_MCP_ALLOWED_ATTACHMENT_ROOT=... --env APPLE_MAIL_MCP_VISIBLE_DRAFTS=... -- uvx apple-mcp-mail

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