better-email-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

better-email-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from n24q02m/better-email-mcp. It costs 2,457 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project guide for an email server that connects to mailboxes using IMAP and sends mail using SMTP. It is built with TypeScript and Node.js and supports multiple accounts, messages, folders, attachments, and outbound mail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on email operations such as reading messages, managing folders, handling attachments, configuring accounts, or sending replies and forwards.
Why use it?
It documents how to set up, check, test, build, and run the email integration, reducing guesswork when developing or fixing it.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is n24q02m/better-email-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on better-email-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything better-email-mcp configures →

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is cd ../mcp-core && uv run --project scripts/e2e python -m e2e.driver <config-id>.

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to n24q02m/better-email-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Made for: Claude Code.

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CLAUDE.md · 139 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md - better-email-mcp

MCP Server cho Email (IMAP/SMTP). TypeScript, Node.js >= 24, bun, ESM. 4 composite tools, 22 actions (messages, folders, attachments, config; outbound new/reply/forward under messages) plus config__open_relay + help. Multi-account, App Passwords, auto-discovery.

Commands

# Setup
bun install

# Lint & Type check
bun run check                    # biome check + tsc --noEmit
bun run type-check               # tsc --noEmit only

# Fix
bun run check:fix                # biome fix + type check

# Test
bun run test                     # vitest (--passWithNoTests)
bun run test:watch               # vitest watch
bun run test:coverage            # vitest --coverage
bun vitest run src/tools/helpers/errors.test.ts   # single file

# Build & Dev
bun run build                    # tsc --build tsconfig.build.json + esbuild CLI
bun run dev                      # tsx watch dev server

# Docker
bun run docker:build
bun run docker:run

# Mise shortcuts
mise run setup     # full dev setup
mise run lint      # bun run check
mise run test      # bun run test
mise run fix       # bun run check:fix

Cau truc thu muc

src/
  init-server.ts                 # Entry point, env validation
  relay-setup.ts                 # formatCredentials() helper (relay form fields -> EMAIL_CREDENTIALS string)
  relay-schema.ts                # Relay form schema (email credential fields)
  credential-state.ts            # Single-user / stdio credential resolution from env
  auth/                          # Per-user credential store + Outlook OAuth (HTTP mode)
    in-memory-cred-store.ts      # Local per-user store fallback; ephemeral, keyed by JWT sub
    cred-store.ts                # Cloudflare KV write-through store, keyed by JWT sub
    outlook-device-code.ts       # Microsoft device-code OAuth flow
    subject-context.ts           # Per-request JWT-sub scope (AsyncLocalStorage)
  transports/
    http.ts                      # Multi-user HTTP transport with OAuth 2.1
  docs/                          # Markdown docs phuc vu qua MCP resources
  tools/
    registry.ts                  # Tool registration + routing
    composite/                   # Public domains: messages, folders, attachments, config; internal outbound helper: send.ts
    helpers/                     # errors, config, html-utils, imap-client, smtp-client

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

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better-email-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository n24q02m/better-email-mcp (34 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,457 tokens to every session, about $0.0123 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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