Gmail MCP Server

This MCP (Model Context Protocol) server provides tools for common operations with gmail.

Features

• send_mail: Send new emails

Prerequisites

1. Python 3.12+
2. uv - Fast Python package installer and resolver
3. Google Cloud Console Setup

• Go to: Google Cloud Console
• Create a new project for this MCP Server
• Enable Gmail API
  • Go to: APIs and services > Library
  • Search: Gmail API
  • Click on: Gmail API tile in the results
  • Click on: Enable
• Setup OAuth
  • Go to: APIs and services > Credentials
  • Click on": Create Credentials > OAuth client ID
  • Choose Application Type: Web application
  • Add: Authorised redirect URIs: http://localhost:4321/
  • Create client
  • Download the JSON and save it to credentials.json in this project root. This has the Client ID, Client Secret, etc.

Installation

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/heuristech/gmail-mcp-server.git
   cd gmail-mcp-server

2. Create a virtual environment and install the package in development mode:

   # Create a virtual environment
   uv venv
   
   # Activate the virtual environment
   # On macOS/Linux:
   source .venv/bin/activate
   # On Windows:
   .venv\Scripts\activate
   
   # Install dependencies
   uv sync

Get Refresh Token

python get_refresh_token.py

This will:

1. Start a server on port: 4321 to receive tokens post Google OAuth
2. Open your browser for Google OAuth
3. On succeeful authentication it will save token.json with refresh_token along with client_id, and client_secret.
4. It will also display the refresh_token on console.

Create .env

copy example.env .env

Setup the corresponding value using what you received in the previous step.

Inspect

Use MCP Inspector to test it in the development mode.

mcp dev server.py

Claude Desktop Integration

Once your server is ready, install it in Claude Desktop

mcp install server.py --with google-auth --with google-auth-oauthlib --with google-auth-httplib2 --with google-api-python-client -f .env

MCP server configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gmail-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
          "--directory",
          "/:your.path.to/gmail-mcp-server/server.py",
          "run",
          "server.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CLIENT_ID": "google.auth.app.client.id",
        "CLIENT_SECRET": "google.auth.app.client.secret",
        "REFRESH_TOKEN": "google.auth.app.refresh.token"
      }   
    }   
  }
}