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Proton Mail (unofficial) for Gemini CLI

io.github.sethbang/proton-mail-mcp

Unofficial Proton Mail MCP — send, read, search & organize email over SMTP and IMAP

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Install Proton Mail (unofficial) in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "proton-mail-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "proton-mail-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROTONMAIL_USERNAME": "<PROTONMAIL_USERNAME>",
        "PROTONMAIL_PASSWORD": "<PROTONMAIL_PASSWORD>",
        "PROTONMAIL_HOST": "<PROTONMAIL_HOST>",
        "PROTONMAIL_PORT": "<PROTONMAIL_PORT>",
        "PROTONMAIL_SECURE": "<PROTONMAIL_SECURE>",
        "IMAP_HOST": "<IMAP_HOST>",
        "IMAP_PORT": "<IMAP_PORT>",
        "IMAP_SECURE": "<IMAP_SECURE>",
        "IMAP_USERNAME": "<IMAP_USERNAME>",
        "IMAP_PASSWORD": "<IMAP_PASSWORD>",
        "READONLY": "<READONLY>",
        "RESTRICT_OUTBOUND_TO_SELF": "<RESTRICT_OUTBOUND_TO_SELF>",
        "ALLOW_FILE_DOWNLOAD_DIR": "<ALLOW_FILE_DOWNLOAD_DIR>",
        "ALLOW_EMPTY_FOLDER": "<ALLOW_EMPTY_FOLDER>",
        "DEBUG": "<DEBUG>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs

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