Email Actor

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Email Actor (SMTP / IMAP)

An Apify Actor built for MCP server integration. It lets an AI agent send and fetch emails over standard SMTP and IMAP — no proprietary API required.

Actions

• fetch — reads emails from a mailbox via IMAP
• send — sends an email via SMTP

Environment variables

Default ports: IMAP 993 (TLS), SMTP 465 (TLS).

Input

Fetch

{
"action":"fetch",
"mailbox":"INBOX",
"filter":"unseen",
"limit":10
}

Filter options: all, unseen, seen, from:address@example.com, subject:some text.

Send

{
"action":"send",
"to":"someone@example.com",
"subject":"Hello",
"text":"Plain text body",
"html":"<p>Optional HTML body</p>"
}

Output

Fetch

[{"subject":"...","from":"sender@example.com","date":"2026-05-05","body":"..."}]

Send

[{"messageId":"<abc@smtp.example.com>","to":"...","subject":"..."}]