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mailwarden for VS Code

io.github.csitte/mailwarden

Gmail MCP server for email triage: search, labels, archive, trash, unsubscribe, snooze.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install mailwarden in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mailwarden-dir",
      "description": "MAILWARDEN_DIR",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mailwarden-credentials",
      "description": "MAILWARDEN_CREDENTIALS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mailwarden-auto-sweep",
      "description": "MAILWARDEN_AUTO_SWEEP",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mailwarden-download-dir",
      "description": "MAILWARDEN_DOWNLOAD_DIR",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "mailwarden": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mailwarden"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MAILWARDEN_DIR": "${input:mailwarden-dir}",
        "MAILWARDEN_CREDENTIALS": "${input:mailwarden-credentials}",
        "MAILWARDEN_AUTO_SWEEP": "${input:mailwarden-auto-sweep}",
        "MAILWARDEN_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "${input:mailwarden-download-dir}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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