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Gmail Smart Filtering & Auto-Organization

Use MCP to connect Claude with Gmail, letting Claude intelligently categorize emails, create filters, and automatically organize your inbox

★★☆ Intermediate 30-60 min January 15, 2026
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Scenario

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Prompt

Please help me organize my Gmail inbox:

1. Analyze my inbox patterns from the last 30 days
2. Create these label folders:
   - Travel (for flight/hotel bookings)
   - Receipts (for purchase confirmations)
   - Newsletters (for subscribed content)
   - Clients (for client communications)
3. Set up filters to automatically sort incoming emails
4. Move existing emails to appropriate folders
5. Give me a summary of what was organized

Expected Result

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Tips

  • First install and configure Gmail MCP server (see Gmail-MCP-Server on GitHub)
  • Start testing with a small scope, like only the last week's emails
  • Have Claude show planned categorization rules first, confirm before executing