Connect Claude Code to Apple Mail

Name: Pomeroy
Price: 19 USD

Yes, Claude Code can read your Apple Mail. Pomeroy connects Claude Code to Apple Mail on your Mac, so it can list your mailboxes, read messages, and search your mail by sender, subject, or body text. Pomeroy cannot send, reply, delete, or move mail; it only reads.

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Free for 50 actions a week. No account, no card. Or get Claude Code first.

What can you ask Claude Code to do in Apple Mail?

“Find the flight confirmation from March and tell me the times.”
“Show me my most recent job application emails.”
“What unread mail do I have?”
“Search my mail for the plumber’s invoice and tell me the total.”
“Read me the latest email from the school and pull out the dates.”
“Which mailbox has the most unread messages?”

What Claude Code can do in Apple Mail

List your mailboxes, with message and unread counts.
List and read messages in any mailbox.
Search subjects and senders, or message bodies through an index built on your Mac.
List unread mail, newest first.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Mail

Send a message, a reply, or a forward.
Delete, move, or archive mail.
Mark anything read or unread.

Your mailbox stays exactly as you left it.

How to connect claude code to apple mail

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Claude Code first if it is not there yet.

1
Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple Mail.
Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. macOS asks whether Pomeroy may control Mail, which is how one Mac app reads another's mail. The prompt names Pomeroy, and nothing is requested until you flip the toggle.
2
Press Set up beside Claude Code.
Pomeroy runs Claude Code's own claude mcp add command with user scope, so Pomeroy is available in every project rather than one folder. If the claude command is not where Pomeroy can find it, Pomeroy adds the same entry to Claude Code's configuration file instead.
3
Check Claude Code.
Run claude mcp list in the Terminal and pomeroy is listed. Inside a session, /mcp shows it connected, with its tools. Start a new Claude Code session.
4
Ask Claude Code something.
Try “Find the flight confirmation from March and tell me the times.” and a real answer comes back.

The configuration, in full

Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.

Can Claude Code read my Apple Mail?

Yes. Once you switch Mail on in Pomeroy, Claude Code can list your mailboxes, read messages, and search your mail. Searches cover subjects and senders, and message bodies through an index built and kept on your Mac.

Can Claude Code send email for me?

No. Pomeroy has no way to send, reply, or forward, so Claude Code cannot be talked into it. If you want a reply written, Claude Code can draft the words and you send them yourself.

Is it safe to connect Claude Code to Apple Mail?

Pomeroy reads your mail on your Mac and sends nothing to a Pomeroy server. What Claude Code reads becomes part of your conversation, the same as text you paste in. Mail starts switched off, and you can switch it off again at any time. Pomeroy is an independent app, not made by Anthropic.

Claude Code does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Start a new Claude Code session; a running one keeps the tool list it started with. Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether Claude Code is connected right now.

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Try Claude Code with Apple Mail.

Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.