MCP Server: Email QA Inside Your AI Assistant

Email rendering analysis for AI assistants

MCP server for email compatibility analysis. Analyze, preview, diff, and fix emails across 21 email clients, plus capture real screenshots and create shareable links with an optional API key.

Send HTML, MJML, Maizzle or React Email. Set format and the template is compiled before analysis, so what gets checked is the HTML your readers actually receive.

Why your assistant needs this: across the 298 CSS and HTML features we track, only 6 are fully supported in every major email client (see the data). Ask Claude to check your email before you send it.

Built on @emailens/engine. Also available as a GitHub Action.

Install

npx -y @emailens/mcp

Setup

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "emailens": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@emailens/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add emailens -- npx -y @emailens/mcp

With API Key (optional, unlocks screenshots + sharing)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "emailens": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@emailens/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "EMAILENS_API_KEY": "ek_live_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Get your free API key at app.emailens.dev/dashboard/api.

Remote (no install)

Use the hosted endpoint: no npm or Node.js needed. API key required.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "emailens": {
      "url": "https://app.emailens.dev/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ek_live_..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Tools

Local Tools (no account needed)

preview_email

Full email compatibility preview: transforms HTML for 21 clients, analyzes CSS, generates scores, simulates dark mode, checks inbox preview and email size.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
html	string	One of	Email HTML source
path	string	One of	Absolute path to the source file instead of html (.html, .htm, .mjml, .jsx, .tsx, .vue); the extension sets format
clients	string[]	No	Filter to specific client IDs
format	enum	No	"html", "jsx", "mjml", "maizzle"

analyze_email

Quick CSS compatibility analysis; returns per-client scores and one finding per problem. Faster than audit_email when you only need CSS compatibility.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
html	string	One of	Email HTML source
path	string	One of	Absolute path to the source file instead of html (.html, .htm, .mjml, .jsx, .tsx, .vue); the extension sets format
format	enum	No	Input format
detail	enum	No	"summary" (default) or "full"
clients	string[]	No	Only report these client IDs
targetingPolicy	enum	No	"progressive" (default), "strict", or "lenient"

One finding per problem, not one per client. The engine reports per client because a score is per client, and per selector because a fix is per selector. On an ordinary newsletter border-radius arrives twelve times (two clients that drop it, six selectors that use it) with the same sentence in every copy. That was 286KB of JSON, about 73,000 tokens, for an 11KB email.

Findings group by property, severity and message, listing the clients affected, with positions merged across all of them. The same email now returns 40KB.

{
  "property": "border-radius",
  "severity": "warning",
  "clients": ["outlook-windows", "outlook-windows-legacy"],
  "message": "Does not support \"border-radius\". Round corners can be used in VML…",
  "fixType": "structural",
  "hasFix": true,
  "loc": { "line": 61, "column": 28, "offset": 2753, "length": 171 },
  "alsoAtLines": [62, 64, 75, 78, 87]
}

Fix snippets are not included; they were 93KB of that 286KB, and fix_email produces them for the issues you decide to act on. hasFix tells you one is available; fixType tells you whether the repair is markup or CSS.

Pass detail: "full" for the engine's per-client shape with snippets, and clients: ["gmail-web", "outlook-windows"] to report only what you care about: the fastest further saving, roughly halving the response for two clients. Scores stay whole-email either way: narrowing the report does not change what the email is worth elsewhere. An unknown client ID is rejected by name; an empty result would read as "this email is fine for that client".

Source positions. For HTML input, every warning carries loc (line, column, offset, length) for the first occurrence, plus alsoAtLines for any others, so an assistant can edit the exact source and knows where the rest are. audit_email positions its other findings the same way.

{
  "property": "border-radius",
  "loc": { "line": 7, "column": 8, "offset": 142, "length": 25 },
  "alsoAtLines": [12, 19]
}

Later occurrences are line numbers rather than full positions on purpose: this response is read by a model paying for every token, and a real newsletter can produce over a thousand occurrences; carrying them all in full nearly doubles the payload.

Positions are reported for html input only. JSX, MJML and Maizzle are compiled before analysis, so a line number would point into generated output rather than the file you have open: the tools omit it instead of returning one that looks authoritative.

audit_email

Comprehensive quality audit: CSS compatibility, spam scoring, link validation, accessibility, images, inbox preview, size (Gmail clipping), template variables, content overflow, visual bugs, dark-mode and mobile text contrast, design consistency, and client targeting.

The last three cover what a light desktop preview cannot show: text that disappears when a client forces dark mode or when the email's own dark block repaints a surface without re-colouring the text on it, contrast below the email's breakpoint, and colours that differ by value but not to a reader.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
html	string	One of	Email HTML source
path	string	One of	Absolute path to the source file instead of html (.html, .htm, .mjml, .jsx, .tsx, .vue); the extension sets format
format	enum	No	Input format
detail	enum	No	"summary" (default) or "full"
clients	string[]	No	Only report these client IDs
skip	string[]	No	Checks to skip (e.g. ["spam", "images"])
targetingPolicy	enum	No	"progressive" (default), "strict", or "lenient"
emailType	enum	No	"transactional" (no unsubscribe link required) or "marketing". Omitted: guessed from the content
previousHtml	string	No	The design to hold this version to, usually your first draft. Omitted: the first version of this email audited in the session. What the edits removed comes back as designRemovals

Fix error and warning findings. info findings are not problems: the email falls back safely there, so never remove responsive (@media) or dark-mode CSS to clear them.

fix_email

Generate a structured fix prompt for compatibility issues. Returns markdown with fix instructions that the AI can apply directly.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
html	string	One of	Email HTML to fix
path	string	One of	Absolute path to the source file instead of html (.html, .htm, .mjml, .jsx, .tsx, .vue); the extension sets format
format	enum	No	Controls fix syntax
scope	enum	No	"all" or "current"
selectedClientId	string	No	Client ID for scoped fixes

list_clients

List all 21 supported email clients with IDs, names, engines, and dark mode support.

diff_emails

Compare two email HTML versions; shows score changes, fixed issues, and introduced issues per client.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
before / beforePath	string	One of	Original email source, or its file
after / afterPath	string	One of	Modified email source, or its file
format	enum	No	Input format

check_deliverability

Check email deliverability for a domain: SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, BIMI records with a score and actionable issues.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
domain	string	Yes	Domain to check (e.g. "company.com")

Hosted Tools (require EMAILENS_API_KEY)

capture_screenshots

Capture real email screenshots across 21 clients in real browsers. Screenshots are hosted on CDN.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
html	string	One of	Email HTML source
path	string	One of	Absolute path to the source file instead of html (.html, .htm, .mjml, .jsx, .tsx, .vue); the extension sets format
format	enum	No	Input format
clients	string[]	No	Filter clients
modes	string[]	No	["light"], ["dark"], or ["light", "dark"]
title	string	No	Name for the preview

Free plan: 30 previews/day. Sign up

share_preview

Create a shareable link. Recipients see the full analysis without an account.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
html	string	One of	Email HTML source
path	string	One of	Absolute path to the source file instead of html (.html, .htm, .mjml, .jsx, .tsx, .vue); the extension sets format
title	string	No	Display title
format	enum	No	Input format

Requires Dev plan ($9/mo). Share links expire after 7 days (Dev) or never (Pro).

Template formats

format accepts html (the default), mjml, maizzle and jsx (React Email). maizzle is an HTML template or a Vue single-file component. A pasted Vue file with no format is compiled as maizzle. Anything but html is compiled before analysis and also decides the syntax the fix snippets come back in.

Compiling matters more than it sounds. An email client renders the output, so that is what has to be checked: handed a raw <mjml> document, an HTML parser finds no CSS in it and reports a perfectly clean email. An answer like that is worse than an error, because an assistant will repeat it.

The compilers are not bundled. MJML alone pulls 56MB, and this server is usually started with npx, so the engine keeps them as optional peer dependencies:

npm install mjml                                              # MJML
npm install @maizzle/framework@5                             # Maizzle HTML
npm install @maizzle/framework@6                             # Maizzle Vue single-file components
npm install sucrase react @react-email/components @react-email/render  # React Email

They have to be installed where the server runs, which is not always somewhere you control. If it is not, compile the template yourself and send the resulting HTML with format: "html": the tools say so when they hit this.

Supported Email Clients (21)

Each client links to its CSS support page. Setup guides for every assistant: emailens.dev/mcp.

Client	ID	Dark Mode	Notes
Gmail	gmail-web	Yes
Gmail Android	gmail-android	Yes
Gmail iOS	gmail-ios	Yes
Outlook 365	outlook-web	Yes
Outlook Windows	outlook-windows	No
Outlook Windows Legacy	outlook-windows-legacy	No	Deprecated Oct 2026
Outlook iOS	outlook-ios	Yes	New in v0.4.0
Outlook Android	outlook-android	Yes	New in v0.4.0
Outlook for Mac	outlook-macos	Yes	New in v0.10.0
Apple Mail	apple-mail-macos

Releasing

Two publishes: npm, and the MCP registry. The registry listing sat five releases behind because nothing pushed server.json, so that half is a workflow now. RELEASING.md has the details and the four places the version has to agree.

Development

bun install
bun run build
bun test
bun run typecheck

License

MIT

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