The best MCP servers for Gmail — let AI agents search, read, label, draft, and send email from a Gmail account.
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Write and preview emails from your assistant. Renders markdown into email-safe HTML that holds up in Outlook and Gmail, lints drafts for deliverability problems, and returns a live preview link. Hosted with no API key, or run it locally with npx emailmd mcp.
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Give AI agents access to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and more — multi-account, manifest-driven
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IMAP/SMTP email MCP server with 42 tools for reading, searching, sending, scheduling, and managing emails across multiple accounts. Supports IMAP IDLE push, AI triage, desktop notifications, and auto-detects providers like Gmail, Outlook, and iCloud.
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Lean Gmail MCP server with auto authentication support
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An MCP server for Inbox Zero. Adds functionality on top of Gmail like finding out which emails you need to reply to or need to follow up on.
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Email deliverability testing for agents. Four tools: get a disposable test address, wait for the report once the message arrives, read it, and fetch the raw source. The report has 42 checks (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, 21 blocklists, two spam engines, Gmail and Yahoo bulk sender rules), each linked to its RFC, plus a fix plan. Remote endpoint, no API key.
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Unified MCP server for email across Gmail (REST API), Outlook (Microsoft Graph), iCloud, and generic IMAP/SMTP. 24 tools for search, send, organize, and batch-manage emails with built-in OAuth2 and encrypted credential storage.
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Comprehensive Google Workspace MCP server with full support for Google Calendar, Drive, Gmail, and Docs, Forms, Chats, Slides and Sheets over stdio, Streamable HTTP and SSE transports.
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Gmail MCP server — scope-gated tools + attachment/download path jails + supply-chain hardening. Fork of GongRzhe/Gmail-MCP-Server via ArtyMcLabin's intermediate fork.
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Google Workspace MCP server exposing 23 curated tools for Drive, Sheets, Calendar, Docs, and Gmail via the gws CLI.
Gmail servers authenticate with Google OAuth, and the scopes you grant decide the risk: read-only scopes let an agent search and summarize, while send and modify scopes let it act as you. Start read-only and add drafting before full send access.
Email is a common channel for prompt injection — a message can contain instructions aimed at the agent. Prefer servers and clients that require confirmation before sending, and avoid auto-approving send tools.
This page ranks Gmail MCP servers by real usage across the AllMCPs directory. For broader Google access (Calendar, Drive, Docs) see the Google Workspace page.
Yes, if the server has the Gmail send scope. Keep manual approval on for send tools, since an agent that reads untrusted email can be steered by instructions hidden in a message.
Through Google OAuth. You create OAuth credentials in a Google Cloud project, authorize the server once in the browser, and it stores a refresh token locally.