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readEmail

Read Email

Read the full content of a Gmail message by its ID.

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Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "read that email", and it calls readEmail.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "messageId": "<messageId>"
  },
  "name": "readEmail"
}

Arguments

• accountIdstringoptionalConnected account this acts on: an accountId or email from listMailAccounts. Omit for the primary account. Pass the SAME account you found the message / draft / label in: a Gmail id is per-account, so aiming a non-primary id at the…
• maxCharsintegeroptionalMaximum body characters to return in this call
• messageIdstringrequiredThe Gmail message ID
• offsetintegeroptionalCharacter offset to start the body from (page via nextCursor)

Returns

Returns the complete decoded body (HTML cleaned to text, entities decoded) plus the full recipient headers: to, cc, and bcc (bcc only ever resolves on the user's own sent mail; it is "" on…

Declared limits

• maxChars: minimum 1
• maxChars: maximum 50000
• offset: minimum 0
• offset: maximum 9007199254740991

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• read that email
• open the message from X
• what does it say
• what images are in that email

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• searchEmails
• saveEmailAttachment
• sendEmail

Questions

• What does readEmail do?

  Read the full content of a Gmail message by its ID. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use readEmail from Claude or ChatGPT?

  Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "read that email", and it calls readEmail.

• Is readEmail safe to let an AI call?

  readEmail is read-only: it changes nothing. It reaches a system outside The Cloud on your behalf.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.