---
title: "Personal Suite: Email, Calendar, Messaging in One MCP"
description: "Instead of 5 separate MCP servers: Personal Suite bundles email, calendar, messaging, search and image generation in one install. 48 tools, open source."
author: "Matthias Meyer"
published: 2026-04-06
updated: 2026-04-06
language: en
tags: ["mcp", "personal-suite", "email", "calendar", "messaging", "openclaw", "productivity"]
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publisher: "StudioMeyer, https://studiomeyer.io (llms.txt: https://studiomeyer.io/llms.txt)"
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# Personal Suite: Email, Calendar, Messaging in One MCP

To connect Claude with your calendar, emails, and Telegram, you previously needed five to six separate MCP servers. Each with its own configuration, its own OAuth flow, and its own API keys. Doable for developers, a barrier for everyone else.

Personal Suite bundles everything into a single MCP server: email, calendar, messaging, web search, and image generation. One install, one configuration, 48 tools.

## Why one server instead of five?

The math is simple:

| | Traditional (5-6 servers) | Personal Suite |
|---|---|---|
| **Servers** | 5-6 separate | 1 |
| **Config files** | 5-6 | 1 |
| **OAuth flows** | 5-6 each | 1-2 |
| **API keys** | 10+ | 2-5 |
| **Setup time** | 30-60 minutes | 5-10 minutes |
| **Maintenance** | 5 updates, 5 failure points | 1 update |

Less complexity means fewer errors. And less time spent configuring instead of working.

### The OpenClaw situation

Until April 2026, Claude users could access third-party tools through OpenClaw for free. Since April 4th, every tool call through that route costs $0.50 to $2.00. Personal Suite runs natively via the MCP protocol -- directly in Claude Desktop, without a middle layer, with no additional costs beyond your Claude subscription.

## The 6 modules at a glance

### Email (15 tools)

Supports Gmail (OAuth2), Outlook (OAuth2), and generic IMAP/SMTP. Auto-discovery recognizes over 30,000 email providers automatically -- including German providers like WEB.DE, GMX, T-Online, mailbox.org, Posteo, IONOS, and Strato.

What you can do:
- Read, send, reply, forward emails
- Send attachments up to 25 MB
- View and search threads
- Manage folders, mark emails as read/unread
- Full-text search across subject, sender, and content

"Show me today's unread emails." -- "Reply to Mueller's email: appointment works, Thursday 2 PM."

### Calendar (11 tools)

Supports Google Calendar (OAuth2) and CalDAV. CalDAV means: Apple iCloud, Nextcloud, mailbox.org, Posteo, Fastmail, Radicale, Synology NAS, and any other CalDAV server.

What you can do:
- Create, modify, delete events
- Check availability (find free time slots)
- View daily agenda
- List and search calendars
- Upcoming events at a glance

"What's on today?" -- "Create an event: meeting with Mueller, Thursday 2-3 PM."

> The advantage of CalDAV: No Google approval and no OAuth setup needed. A username and password are enough -- works with self-hosted calendars too.

### Messaging (8 tools)

Supports Telegram, Discord, Slack, and WhatsApp. You can send messages, receive messages, list channels, and broadcast to multiple platforms at once.

"Send to Team Telegram channel: meeting moved to 3 PM." -- "What came in on Slack?"

### Web search (7 tools)

A search gateway bundling multiple providers: SearXNG (free, self-hosted), Brave (free, 2,000 queries/month), Exa (semantic search), and Tavily (research synthesis).

- Web search, news, images
- Semantic search (finds conceptually similar content)
- Code context search (GitHub, Stack Overflow)
- Deep research (aggregates from multiple sources)

You bring your own API keys. StudioMeyer has no per-request costs -- and doesn't pass any on either.

### Image generation (3 tools)

Supports three AI providers: OpenAI DALL-E 3, Flux Pro (via fal.ai), and Google Gemini Imagen 3. Auto-routing picks the best provider based on your prompt:

- Text-heavy images (logos, signs) -> OpenAI
- Photorealistic images (people, landscapes) -> Flux
- General purpose -> Gemini

Cost per image: $0.04 to $0.08. Again: your API keys, your costs, no middleman markup.

### System (6 tools)

- **suite_status:** Which modules are configured?
- **suite_setup:** Interactive setup wizard
- **suite_health:** Connection test (IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, bots, APIs)
- **suite_guide:** Built-in documentation for all modules
- **suite_delete:** GDPR-compliant deletion of all credentials
- **suite_connect:** Zero-knowledge credential flow (SaaS only)

## Installation

### Option 1: Local (self-hosted, free)

```bash
npm install -g mcp-personal-suite
```

Claude Desktop configuration:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "personal-suite": {
      "command": "personal-suite"
    }
  }
}
```

First launch: Claude automatically asks for your credentials. Auto-discovery detects your email provider and suggests the correct IMAP/SMTP settings.

### Note: the hosted version no longer exists

When this article was written, Personal Suite was also available as hosted SaaS at suite.studiomeyer.io. That service was shut down on 22 April 2026 and the domain has answered with 410 Gone ever since. Personal Suite today runs locally only, exactly as described above. That is not a limitation, it is the point of the project: your credentials sit on your machine and nowhere else.

## Zero-knowledge credentials: Why this matters

If you type your email password into the Claude chat, Anthropic can theoretically see it. Personal Suite solves this with a special credential flow:

1. You tell Claude: "Connect my Gmail"
2. Claude opens a local form, not the chat
3. You enter your password there
4. Credentials are stored encrypted with AES-256-GCM on your own machine
5. Anthropic never sees your passwords at any point

(In the discontinued SaaS variant, steps 2 and 3 ran through suite.studiomeyer.io. Locally, everything stays on your machine.)

This isn't a marketing feature -- it's an architectural decision. The browser forms are intentionally plain HTML without JavaScript -- minimal attack surface.

## Tips for getting started

1. **Start with email.** It's the module with the biggest immediate benefit. "Unread emails" and "Reply to..." save 10-15 minutes daily.

2. **Use CalDAV instead of Google Calendar** when possible. No OAuth approval needed, works with any CalDAV server. Especially convenient with Apple iCloud or Nextcloud.

3. **Brave Search is free.** 2,000 search queries per month at no cost. Sign up at brave.com/search/api -- takes two minutes.

4. **Telegram bot in 30 seconds.** Open Telegram, search @BotFather, send /newbot, pick a name. Enter the token in suite_setup -- done.

5. **Image generation: Flux is cheapest.** At $0.04 per image with photorealistic quality, Flux is the best starting point for product photos and social media images.

6. **Use suite_health regularly.** The connection test immediately shows when a connection has expired or failed -- before you notice it during work.

## Security

| Aspect | Implementation |
|--------|---------------|
| Encryption | AES-256-GCM for all credentials |
| Transport | HTTPS, TLS 1.3 |
| OAuth 2.1 | PKCE S256, token rotation |
| Tenant isolation | Separate data space per user |
| GDPR | Complete data deletion via suite_delete |
| Code quality | TypeScript strict, 433 tests, 0 errors |

## Pricing

Personal Suite is open source under the MIT license. The self-hosted version is and will remain free.

There is no paid variant. The hosted version with a freemium model that was announced earlier is not coming -- the service was discontinued on 22 April 2026.

You bring your own API keys (Bring Your Own Key). StudioMeyer charges no markup on third-party provider costs.

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Personal Suite is built for everyone who wants to use Claude productively -- without configuring five separate MCP servers. One server, 49 tools, one configuration. Open source, GDPR-compliant, and the only all-in-one solution with a zero-knowledge credential flow on the market.

[github.com/studiomeyer-io/mcp-personal-suite](https://github.com/studiomeyer-io/mcp-personal-suite)

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