An MCP Server for Fastmail – National Email Day
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- #Fastmail
- #AI Integration
- #MCP Server
- Fastmail has launched an MCP server for National Email Day, providing an open API endpoint for AI clients to interact with user data.
- MCP is a protocol for AI models to access external data and tools, allowing AI assistants to read and act on emails, calendars, and contacts.
- Users can add the MCP server to AI clients via OAuth, with access levels including read-only, write, and send permissions.
- The approach integrates webapps into the AI, allowing a single AI to orchestrate actions across multiple services, contrasting with webapps having separate, integrated AIs.
- MCP is driven by AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI, while Google currently lacks support in its Gemini UI, potentially due to differing business incentives.
- Email remains a key open and federated communication platform, and Fastmail aims to let users control their data usage across contexts.