Apple Mail for VS Code

io.github.mgcrea/mcp-apple-mail

Search, read and act on Apple Mail — threads, attachments, body search, writes off by default

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Apple Mail in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "apple-mail-allow-writes",
      "description": "APPLE_MAIL_ALLOW_WRITES",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "apple-mail-accounts",
      "description": "APPLE_MAIL_ACCOUNTS",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "mcp-apple-mail": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mgcrea/mcp-apple-mail"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APPLE_MAIL_ALLOW_WRITES": "${input:apple-mail-allow-writes}",
        "APPLE_MAIL_ACCOUNTS": "${input:apple-mail-accounts}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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