VaEmail
Email infrastructure for AI agents. 13 tools to send transactional email, validate before sending (dry run), track delivery status, authenticate sending domains (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), diagnose deliverability and read the audit log. Zero-dependency Node package, scoped and capped API keys, servers in Germany.
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VaEmail — email infrastructure for AI agents
MCP server and CLI for VaEmail. Give an agent the ability to send email, authenticate a sending domain, track delivery and diagnose deliverability — without a human reading a dashboard in between.
European infrastructure: servers in Germany, sending through Amazon SES Europe.
Install
# Claude Code
claude mcp add vaemail --env VAEMAIL_API_KEY=swm_your_key -- npx -y vaemail mcp
# Any MCP client
npx -y vaemail mcp
Or as a config block:
{
"mcpServers": {
"vaemail": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "vaemail", "mcp"],
"env": { "VAEMAIL_API_KEY": "swm_your_key" }
}
}
}
Check everything is wired up:
npx vaemail init
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
vaemail_capabilities | What the service supports. No API key needed. |
vaemail_send_email | Queue a transactional email, return its id. |
vaemail_validate_email | Dry run: would this send go out, and what would block it. |
vaemail_get_message | Delivery status and every event for one message. |
vaemail_list_messages | Recent messages, filtered by status, tag or recipient. |
vaemail_list_domains | Sending domains with live SPF, DKIM and DMARC state. |
vaemail_create_domain | Declare a domain, return the DNS records to publish. |
vaemail_verify_domain | Re-read the DNS and report what is authenticated. |
vaemail_dns_requirements | The records a declared domain still needs. |
vaemail_diagnose_deliverability | Why mail is landing badly, with the actions that fix it. |
vaemail_list_bounces | Addresses excluded from sending, and why. |
vaemail_get_usage | Quota, daily cap on the key, what is left. |
vaemail_get_audit_log | What this key has done, to report it accurately. |
What this is built to prevent
An agent fails differently from a person. It retries, it does not read a dashboard, and it reports success from a 200. The API is shaped around that:
- A send is accepted, not delivered.
vaemail_send_emailreturns 202 and an id. Onlyvaemail_get_messagesays what became of it. The tool descriptions say so, so an agent does not announce a delivery it cannot know about. - Retries do not duplicate. Pass
idempotency_keyand a repeat call replays the first response for 24 hours instead of sending twice. - Errors say what to do. Every failure carries a stable
code, whether it isretryable, and the corrective action with the endpoint that performs it. - Keys are bounded. Scopes, a daily send cap, a cap on recipients per email and an allow-list of sender domains. An agent cannot spend more than the key allows.
- Every call is logged. Which key, which operation, which parameters, which result — message bodies excluded. Autonomous, but accountable.
- Human steps are named as such. Publishing DNS records is one. A record
whose value still contains a placeholder is flagged
publishable: false, because publishing it would break the domain's authentication.
CLI
vaemail init # check config, print the MCP snippet
vaemail capabilities # what the service can do (no key needed)
vaemail send --to a@b.fr --subject Hi --html '<p>Hello</p>'
vaemail status 42 # delivery status of a message
vaemail domains:add exemple.fr # declare a domain, print DNS records
vaemail doctor # why is my email not arriving?
vaemail usage # quota and remaining allowance
vaemail mcp # run the MCP server on stdio
Add --json to any command for machine-readable output.
Environment
| Variable | Meaning |
|---|---|
VAEMAIL_API_KEY | Account API key. Created from the dashboard, under « Clés API ». |
VAEMAIL_BASE_URL | API base URL. Defaults to https://app.vaemail.fr. |
Also available
- OpenAPI specification: https://app.vaemail.fr/openapi.json
- Capabilities endpoint: https://app.vaemail.fr/api/v1/capabilities
- Agent documentation: https://vaemail.fr/agents
Skill and examples
- Agent skill (rules an agent should follow before its first call):
npx skills add vaemail/skills, source https://github.com/vaemail/skills - Examples for curl, Node, Python, Claude Code, Codex, OpenAI Agents, LangChain, CrewAI and n8n: https://github.com/vaemail/examples
- Registry entry:
io.github.vaemail/vaemail(seeserver.json)
Dependencies
None. Node 18+ for the built-in fetch, and nothing else — a package an agent
installs on its own should not pull a dependency tree behind it.
License
MIT