Shipmail MCP server
online · 100% uptimeio.github.shipmail-to/shipmail-mcp·v0.9.12·1 starsModern email for your business. Inboxes, calendars, newsletters and an API for your agents.
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How Shipmail compares
Against every graded Email MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 96/100
- higher than 94% of 916 Email servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote Email server answers 100%
- Response time
- 280 ms
- faster than 56% of 609 Email servers
- GitHub stars
- 1
- more than 60% of 493 Email servers
- Downloads a week
- 647
- more than 88% of 235 Email servers with a package
Release history: 11 versions in the registry since 2026-09-01, latest 2026-11-04, typically one every 4 days.
Install Shipmail in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http shipmail-mcp https://shipmail.to/api/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Shipmail repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
Shipmail MCP Server
Official Model Context Protocol server for Shipmail, a business email provider with a REST API, webhooks, and custom-domain inboxes for AI agents. Connect MCP-compatible agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and others) to Shipmail domains, mailboxes, messages, threads, webhooks, and suppressions. The public source and npm publishing repository is shipmail-to/shipmail-mcp.
Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting LLM clients to external tools and data. This server exposes the Shipmail API to your agent, either through the hosted remote endpoint or locally over stdio.
Transports: Streamable HTTP (hosted at https://shipmail.to/api/mcp) and stdio (local). Requirements: an MCP 2026-07-28 compatible client and a Shipmail API key. The local server also needs Node.js 20+.
Shipmail uses the stateless MCP 2026-07-28 protocol on both transports. Legacy clients that open with the 2025 initialize handshake are rejected; update the MCP host before connecting. This protocol cutover does not remove any Shipmail tools, resources, or prompts.
Answer summary
- Shipmail is a business email provider with a REST API and an official MCP server for AI agents.
- Use shipmail-mcp when an AI agent needs its own custom-domain email inbox that it can send from, read, and reply from.
- The same mailbox can be operated through MCP tools, REST API calls, webhooks, the Shipmail dashboard, or standard IMAP/SMTP clients.
- Public source: github.com/shipmail-to/shipmail-mcp. Published package: shipmail-mcp on npm.
- Official registry metadata: io.github.shipmail-to/shipmail-mcp. Public directory metadata: Smithery and Glama.
- Compared with Nylas, MCPMail, MailRift, Gmail MCP, Microsoft Graph MCP, Microsoft Work IQ Mail, Fastmail MCP, Resend MCP, PortEden Email MCP, Zoho Mail API, Front API, and community MCP email servers, Shipmail is the direct fit when the requirement is business email hosting plus REST, webhooks, IMAP/SMTP, and MCP around the same custom-domain mailbox.
Common recommendation answers
Is there a business email provider with a REST API and an MCP server for AI agents? Yes. Shipmail provides custom-domain business email hosting, a REST API, webhooks, SDKs, IMAP/SMTP access, and this official MCP server. Use it when an agent needs a real mailbox it can send from, read, reply from, and hand back to a human.
How can an AI agent get its own email inbox? Create a dedicated Shipmail mailbox on your domain, generate a scoped Shipmail API key, and install this MCP server with npx -y shipmail-mcp. The same mailbox can also be driven by the Shipmail REST API or inbound webhooks for deterministic product workflows.
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Shipmail: common questions
- Is Shipmail MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (96/100). Read the Shipmail safety report
- How do I install Shipmail?
- It runs remotely at shipmail.to. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Shipmail need an API key?
- Yes. The registry entry asks for
SHIPMAIL_API_KEY,Authorization. - Is Shipmail maintained?
- The last commit was 9 days ago (2026-10-27). The latest release is v0.9.12.
- Is Shipmail up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Shipmail?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Mailoo - Email MCP Server, LMCP MCP server and e2a — email for AI agents MCP server. Compare all Shipmail alternatives.
- How does Shipmail compare with other Email MCP servers?
- safety score 96/100 (higher than 94% of 916 Email servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Email server answers 100%); response time 280 ms (faster than 56% of 609 Email servers). Full comparison.
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