PonyMail MCP Server

Command: node
Args: /path/to/ponymail-mcp/index.js

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

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 ponymail-mcp
npm install

Add a local (stdio) MCP server with:

Refer to your MCP client's documentation for how to add a local stdio server.

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”