About Gmail Mcp Client Server
Gmail Mcp Client Server is a project for connecting Claude with Gmail through a client and server. The README documents browser-based Gmail OAuth authentication and saving the resulting session for later startup.
Key features
- 01Connect Claude with Gmail
- 02Authenticate through a browser
- 03Save the authenticated session
Use cases
- 01Authorize Gmail access with OAuth
- 02Reuse a saved Gmail session when starting the client and server
MCP support
The project describes an MCP client and server connection for Claude and Gmail; the README provides no further details about the MCP capabilities exposed.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMEImportant: Authenticating with Gmail
Manual OAuth authentication via the browser is required to work with Gmail. To do so, run server.py once as a standalone script with the credentials.json file next to the server.py script. It will then ask you to authenticate using your browser. After authenticating, the session is saved as token.pickle in the root of this project. You can then use this pickle file to start the client and server via the client.py file.
Information on authentication with Gmail and getting the credentials.json file: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/python
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