PonyMail MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides access to the Apache PonyMail mailing list archive API.

Tools

Tool	Description
`list_lists`	Get an overview of all available mailing lists and message counts
`search_list`	Search/browse a mailing list with filters (date, sender, subject, body, query)
`get_email`	Fetch a specific email by ID with full body and attachments
`get_thread`	Fetch the root message of a thread by thread ID
`get_mbox`	Download mbox-formatted archive data for bulk export

cd /Users/rcbowen/devel/ponymail-mcp
npm install

Open Settings → Capabilities → MCP Servers
Click Add MCP / Skill → Local (stdio)
Fill in:
- Name: ponymail
- Command: node
- Args: /Users/rcbowen/devel/ponymail-mcp/index.js
Click Save

Variable	Default	Description
`PONYMAIL_BASE_URL`	`https://lists.apache.org`	Base URL of the PonyMail instance

Once connected, you can ask things like:

“Search the dev@iceberg.apache.org list for messages about partition spec in the last 30 days”
“Show me the available mailing lists”
“Fetch email with ID xyz...”
“Get the mbox archive for dev@httpd.apache.org for 2024-03”