Fastmail MCP Server

2026-04-23: Fastmail now has an official MCP server!

A basic MCP server that provides access to a Fastmail inbox, built with FastMCP and jmapc.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.12+. The project has been developed with Python 3.12.
• Environment variables
  • BEARER_TOKEN: A static token required to authorize HTTP requests to the server.
  • LOG_LEVEL (optional): Python logging level for server output. Defaults to INFO.

Along with the bearer token, a Fastmail API token must also be provided by MCP clients. See Fastmail's API documentation for instructions on creating a token (Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Connected apps & API tokens).

Installation

Clone the repo, then install the dependencies in a virtual environment:

git clone https://github.com/jeffjjohnston/fastmail-mcp-server.git
cd fastmail-mcp-server
python3.12 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Tools

The server implements the following tools:

• list_inbox_emails: Lists the emails in the Inbox (id, sender, subject, and date). Accepts an offset for pagination.
• query_emails_by_keyword: Searches for a keyword in the subject or body of emails while ignoring junk and deleted messages. Returns the total matches and a page of results, with an optional offset parameter.
• get_email_content: Retrieves the content of an email given an id. HTML content is converted to text using BeautifulSoup4.

Running the server

Export a bearer token and start the server:

export BEARER_TOKEN="my-secret-token"
export LOG_LEVEL="DEBUG"  # optional
python server.py

By default the server listens on http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp/.

Testing

Run the test suite with pytest:

pytest

Example client usage: FastMCP client

You can interact with the server using the fastmcp client. The example below calls the list_inbox_emails tool:

import asyncio
from fastmcp.client.transports import StreamableHttpTransport
from fastmcp import Client

BEARER_TOKEN = "my-secret-token"
FASTMAIL_API_TOKEN = "<FASTMAIL_API_TOKEN>"

async def main():
    transport = StreamableHttpTransport(
        "http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp/",
        headers={"fastmail-api-token": FASTMAIL_API_TOKEN},
        auth=f"Bearer {BEARER_TOKEN}",
    )
    client = Client(transport)
    async with client:
        result = await client.call_tool("list_inbox_emails")
        print(result)

asyncio.run(main())

Replace <FASTMAIL_API_TOKEN> with your personal Fastmail API token.

Example client usage: OpenAI

Your server needs to be accessible from the Internet to use it with OpenAI's Remote MCP capabilities. A quick way to enable this for testing is to use Cloudflare's cloudflared tool to build a tunnel.

# on Mac a with homebrew, use `brew install cloudflared`
cloudflared tunnel --url http://127.0.0.1:8000

You will get back an HTTPS URL endpoint and can use it as the MCP server in an OpenAI API request (with /mcp/ appended):

from openai import OpenAI

BEARER_TOKEN = "my-secret-token"
FASTMAIL_API_TOKEN = "<FASTMAIL_API_TOKEN>"

# an OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable is required
client = OpenAI()

resp = client.responses.create(
    model="gpt-4o-mini",
    tools=[
        {
            "type": "mcp",
            "server_label": "Email",
            "server_url": "https://random-words-generated-here.trycloudflare.com/mcp/",
            "require_approval": "never",
            "headers": {
                "Authorization": f"Bearer {BEARER_TOKEN}",
                "fastmail-api-token": FASTMAIL_API_TOKEN,
            },
        },
    ],
    input="Summarize the newest message in my inbox.",
    instructions="Respond without formatting.",
)

print(resp.output_text)

Fastmail Chat

A small web app, Fastmail Chat, provides a chat interface built on OpenAI's remote MCP support and this MCP server.