Claude Desktop

Give Claude Desktop email capabilities via MCP.

Setup

Open Claude Desktop config:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mailgent": {
      "url": "https://api.mailgent.dev/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer mgent-your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop.

Verify

Start a new conversation and ask:

"What tools do you have for email?"

You should see the mail.* tools listed.

Example Conversation

You: Check my inbox for any unread emails

Claude: [calls mail.list_messages with labels: "unread"]
You have 2 unread emails:
1. From sarah@acme.com - "Q4 Report Review" (received 2 hours ago)
2. From john@example.com - "Meeting Tomorrow" (received 30 min ago)

You: Reply to Sarah's email and say the report looks good

Claude: [calls mail.reply with messageId and text]
Done! I replied to Sarah's email confirming the report looks good.

Setup

Verify

Example Conversation

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