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thunderbird cli for VS Code

io.github.vitalio-sh/thunderbird-cli

Give AI agents full read/write email access via Mozilla Thunderbird. Zero credentials.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install thunderbird cli in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tb-bridge-host",
      "description": "TB_BRIDGE_HOST",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tb-bridge-port",
      "description": "TB_BRIDGE_PORT",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "thunderbird-cli": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "thunderbird-cli-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TB_BRIDGE_HOST": "${input:tb-bridge-host}",
        "TB_BRIDGE_PORT": "${input:tb-bridge-port}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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