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Pylos MCP server

Let your AI search, read and draft your email safely, with every message treated as untrusted.

Email For sales For customer support For management Communication

Pylos is a small helper that connects your AI assistant to your email inbox. It works with Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, iCloud and most other mail providers. It is handy for anyone who wants help sorting, reading or drafting email without handing their assistant a blank cheque.

What is an MCP server? The 30-second version

On its own, your AI can only chat with you. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to an app or service. Pylos is that helper for your email, so your AI can look through your mailbox and write drafts for you when you ask. It runs on your own computer and talks to your mail provider on your behalf.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something about your email, like to find a message or summarise a thread. The AI uses Pylos to search and read your mailbox. Pylos fetches the messages, strips out hidden tricks and marks anything suspicious before passing them on. The AI then answers you in the chat, or writes a draft for you to review. Sending, moving and deleting stay switched off unless you turn them on yourself.

What you can do with it

Search your mailbox by sender, subject, date or keyword
Read a single email or a whole conversation thread
List your mail folders
Write a draft reply for you to check and send yourself
Save an attachment to your Downloads folder
Mark messages as read, unread or flagged (if you turn this on)
Move messages between folders (if you turn this on)

Try asking your AI

“Find any emails from my landlord in the last month”
“Summarise this thread about the holiday booking”
“Draft a polite reply saying I will send the report on Friday”
“Show me my unread messages from this week”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in plain chat: lists of matching emails, short summaries of a message or thread, or a draft sitting in your Drafts folder. Each message comes with a Warnings line if something looks off, such as hidden text or wording aimed at an AI. Attachments you ask for are saved as files in your Downloads folder.

Before you start

What you need

Node.js 22 or later on your computer
An email account with Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, GMX, Fastmail, mailbox.org or Posteo
An app password from your mail provider (a special password just for apps; your provider's settings page gives you one)
An MCP client such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

Good to know

Your inbox is private and anyone can write to it, so treat what your assistant tells you about your mail with care, and keep tools that reach the internet out of the same conversation.

Install it with your AI

Add Pylos MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed

You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.

Sign in to get the install prompt

Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check Pylos MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,361 MCP servers here for you.