Emailchef MCP by usefulapi

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• Connection: Runs in the cloud
• Transport: Streamable HTTP
• Category: Marketing & social media

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• Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

https://emailchef.usefulapi.io/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http emailchef https://emailchef.usefulapi.io/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "emailchef": {
      "url": "https://emailchef.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "emailchef": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://emailchef.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

https://emailchef.usefulapi.io/mcp

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What it can do

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• emailchef_get_account

  The Emailchef account this API key belongs to: id, email, language, status, subscriber total, bounces and complaints. GET /accounts/current.

• emailchef_get_subscription

  The account's current Emailchef plan: plan name, plan expiry, contact and send limits, credits left, active/expired flags. Check this before a big send. GET /subscriptions/current.

• emailchef_list_senders

  List the sender identities (name, email, verification status, postal address). Campaigns and emails need a verified sender id. GET /senders.

• emailchef_list_timezones

  List Emailchef's timezones (id, name, fixed UTC offset). The id is required to schedule a campaign. GET /meta/timezones.

• emailchef_list_lists

  List the contact lists with id, name, and counts of active, unsubscribed and bounced contacts and segments. Newest first by default. GET /lists.

• emailchef_get_list

  One contact list: name, description, default sender, creation date. GET /lists/{list_id}.

• emailchef_get_list_stats

  Daily growth of a list over a date range: total contacts per day and the daily delta. Omit the dates for the whole history. GET /lists/{list_id}/stats.

• emailchef_get_list_contact_counts

  How many contacts a list has by state: active, unsubscribed, bounced, reported. GET /lists/{list_id}/stats/count.

• emailchef_create_list

  WRITE: create a new, empty contact list. Returns the new list id. POST /lists.

• emailchef_update_list

  WRITE: rename a contact list and/or change its description. Only the fields you pass change. PUT /lists/{list_id}.

• emailchef_list_contacts

  List the contacts of one list (id, email, name, added by, subscription date), optionally by state. GET /contacts?list_id=...

• emailchef_get_contact

  One contact in one list: status, email, name, IP, how it was added, when, and its custom field values. GET /contacts/{contact_id}?list_id=...

• emailchef_create_contact

  WRITE: add a contact (email, name, custom fields) to a list. Only add people who agreed to receive email: an ACTIVE contact will receive the account's campaigns and automations. Returns the contact id and status. POST /contacts.

• emailchef_update_contact

  WRITE: change a contact's name, state or custom fields in one list. Only the fields you pass change. Setting the status to ACTIVE re-subscribes someone: only do so with their consent. PUT /contacts/{contact_id}.

• emailchef_unsubscribe_contact

  WRITE: unsubscribe one contact from one list (it stops receiving that list's email). POST /lists/{list_id}/unsubscribe?contact_id=...

• emailchef_import_contacts

  WRITE: bulk-add or update up to 500 contacts in a list in one call (an existing email is updated). Each contact is an object keyed by field placeholder, e.g. {"email":"a@b.com","firstname":"Ada"}: get the placeholders from emailchef_list_predefined_fields and emailchef_list_custo

• emailchef_list_import_tasks

  List contact import tasks: list, status (DISPATCHED, COMPLETE, FAILED), progress, imported/updated/failed counts. GET /importtasks.

• emailchef_get_import_task

  One import task: status, progress, imported/updated/failed counts and any error message. GET /importtasks/{task_id}.

• emailchef_list_predefined_fields

  The built-in contact fields (email, first name, ...) with their placeholders. GET /predefinedfields.

• emailchef_list_custom_fields

  The custom contact fields of a list: name, data type, placeholder (the key used when writing contacts), options. GET /lists/{list_id}/customfields.

• emailchef_list_segments

  List the saved segments of a list with how many contacts match each. GET /lists/{list_id}/segments.

• emailchef_get_segment

  One segment with its logic and condition groups. GET /lists/{list_id}/segments/{segment_id}.

• emailchef_list_blocked

  List the account's blocklist (emails that never receive email): address and reason (MANUAL, UNSUBSCRIBED, COMPLAINT). GET /blockings.

• emailchef_block_emails

  WRITE: add up to 100 addresses to the account blocklist so they never receive email from any list. Reversible with emailchef_unblock_email. POST /blockings?type=MANUAL.

• emailchef_unblock_email

  WRITE: remove one address from the account blocklist so it can receive email again. Only do this for an address whose owner asked for it. DELETE /blockings/{email}.

• emailchef_get_campaign_counts

  How many campaigns the account has by state: drafts, sent, scheduled, archived, failed. GET /campaigns/count.

• emailchef_list_campaigns

  List email campaigns with state, recipients, delivered, unique opens and unique clicks. Without a status filter Emailchef returns only SENT and ARCHIVED campaigns; pass a status to see DRAFT, SCHEDULED, SENDING or FAILED ones. GET /campaigns.

• emailchef_get_campaign

  One campaign: name, subject, HTML and text body, sender, reply-to, state, schedule, recipient lists/segments and cached sent/open/click counts. GET /campaigns/{id}.

• emailchef_get_campaign_links

  The links contained in a campaign (id, name, URL). GET /newsletters/{id}/links.

• emailchef_list_campaign_engagement

  Per-contact engagement for a sent campaign: who opened, clicked, was delivered, did not open, unsubscribed, complained, or was sent to, with counts and first/last event time. Pick exactly one event. GET /newsletters/{id}/contacts.

• emailchef_create_campaign

  WRITE: create a new campaign as a DRAFT (nothing is sent). Needs a verified sender (emailchef_list_senders) and at least one list. To be sendable the HTML body must contain the CAN-SPAM placeholders [[account:business]], [[account:address_1]], [[account:city]], [[account:postal_c

• emailchef_clone_campaign

  WRITE: copy an existing campaign into a new DRAFT (nothing is sent). A SENT campaign cannot be cloned (Emailchef answers HTTP 500). Returns the new campaign id. POST /newsletters?clone=1.

• emailchef_update_campaign

  WRITE: change a DRAFT campaign's name, subject, body, sender, reply-to or recipient lists. Only the fields you pass change: the tool reads the campaign first and sends the complete record back, because Emailchef blanks any omitted field. Refuses a campaign that is not a DRAFT. PU

• emailchef_send_test_campaign

  WRITE: email ONE test copy of a campaign to a single address. The campaign state does not change. The sender must be verified. PUT /campaigns/{id}/sendtest.

• emailchef_schedule_campaign

  WRITE, SENDS EMAIL TO CUSTOMERS LATER: schedule a DRAFT campaign to go out to all its recipients at a date and time. Emailchef timezones are fixed offsets without daylight saving: pick the id (emailchef_list_timezones) whose offset matches the send date. Undo before it starts wit

• emailchef_unschedule_campaign

  WRITE: cancel the schedule of a SCHEDULED campaign and bring it back to DRAFT. PUT /campaigns/{id}/unschedule.

• emailchef_send_campaign

  WRITE, SENDS EMAIL TO CUSTOMERS NOW AND CANNOT BE UNDONE: start sending a DRAFT (or FAILED) campaign immediately to ALL its recipients and use up plan sends. Check the recipients (emailchef_get_campaign), the sender and the subscription first, ideally after emailchef_send_test_ca

• emailchef_archive_campaign

  WRITE: archive a campaign (hidden from the default list; statistics are kept). Reversible with emailchef_unarchive_campaign. PUT /campaigns/{id}/archivecampaign.

• emailchef_unarchive_campaign

  WRITE: restore an archived campaign. PUT /campaigns/{id}/unarchivecampaign.

• emailchef_send_email

  WRITE, SENDS AN EMAIL NOW AND CANNOT BE UNDONE: send a single email to one recipient from a verified sender and use up plan sends. Pass text_body and/or html_body. The recipient does not need to be a contact. Send only with the user's explicit go-ahead (confirm must be true). POS

• emailchef_get_sms_balance

  The account's SMS credit balance and currency. GET /sms/balance.

• emailchef_get_sms_status

  Delivery status of one sent SMS by message id: recipient, text, sent/done time, parts, price, state and error. GET /sms/status/{messageId}.

• emailchef_send_sms

  WRITE, SENDS TEXT MESSAGES NOW, COSTS SMS CREDIT AND CANNOT BE UNDONE: send an SMS to 1-50 phone numbers in international format (e.g. +393331234567). Check emailchef_get_sms_balance first and send only with the user's explicit go-ahead (confirm must be true). Returns a message i

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  Endpoint responds

  Responded in 13 ms (HTTP 200)

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