list_messages
Retrieve and filter emails from your Gmail mailbox by specifying queries, labels, or other criteria. Supports pagination, HTML body inclusion, and optional spam/trash results for efficient email management.
Instructions
List messages in the user's mailbox with optional filtering
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| includeBodyHtml | No | Whether to include the parsed HTML in the return for each body, excluded by default because they can be excessively large | |
| includeSpamTrash | No | Include messages from SPAM and TRASH in the results | |
| labelIds | No | Only return messages with labels that match all of the specified label IDs | |
| maxResults | No | Maximum number of messages to return. Accepts values between 1-500 | |
| pageToken | No | Page token to retrieve a specific page of results | |
| q | No | Only return messages matching the specified query. Supports the same query format as the Gmail search box |
Input Schema (JSON Schema)
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"includeBodyHtml": {
"description": "Whether to include the parsed HTML in the return for each body, excluded by default because they can be excessively large",
"type": "boolean"
},
"includeSpamTrash": {
"description": "Include messages from SPAM and TRASH in the results",
"type": "boolean"
},
"labelIds": {
"description": "Only return messages with labels that match all of the specified label IDs",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"maxResults": {
"description": "Maximum number of messages to return. Accepts values between 1-500",
"type": "number"
},
"pageToken": {
"description": "Page token to retrieve a specific page of results",
"type": "string"
},
"q": {
"description": "Only return messages matching the specified query. Supports the same query format as the Gmail search box",
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
}