apple-mail-mcp and simple-email-mcp

These two tools are competitors, with `imdinu/apple-mail-mcp` offering significantly more advanced features and performance optimizations specifically for Apple Mail, making it a superior alternative to the more general and simpler `mexican75/simple-email-mcp` for users seeking high-performance and robust email MCP server functionality.

apple-mail-mcp
57
Established
simple-email-mcp
38
Emerging
Maintenance 13/25
Adoption 12/25
Maturity 18/25
Community 14/25
Maintenance 13/25
Adoption 7/25
Maturity 18/25
Community 0/25
Stars: 5
Forks: 3
Downloads: 2,766
Commits (30d): 0
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
Stars: 2
Forks: —
Downloads: 220
Commits (30d): 0
Language: Python
License: MIT
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About apple-mail-mcp

imdinu/apple-mail-mcp

Fast MCP server for Apple Mail — disk-first reads, 87x faster batch JXA, FTS5 search (700–3500x faster body search). 6 tools for Claude Desktop & Claude Code.

Implements a persistent FTS5 SQLite index built from `.emlx` files on disk, enabling full-text body search in ~20ms while avoiding AppleScript overhead entirely. Provides six MCP tools covering account/mailbox enumeration, filtered email retrieval, and attachment extraction, designed for Claude Desktop/Code integration on macOS with configurable index scope and exclusion rules.

About simple-email-mcp

mexican75/simple-email-mcp

Dead-simple multi-account email MCP server for Claude. IMAP/SMTP, attachments, HTML, calendar invites, optional send gate. Works with any provider.

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