---
title: "Reading"
description: "Finding and reading mail."
url: "https://openemail.uk/docs/mcp/tools/reading"
area: "MCP server"
category: "Tools"
---

# Reading

Finding and reading mail.

## Reading tools

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| listThreads | List threads, with filters and pagination. |
| getThread | One thread’s latest message in full, with its subject and sender. |
| getThreadSummary | An AI summary of one thread. |
| getCurrentDate | The current date and time, for relative queries. |

> `getThread` returns the LATEST message, not the whole thread. For every message in a conversation use `GET /threads/{id}` on the REST API instead.

> `getCurrentDate` exists because a model has no clock. Without it, "emails from last week" is computed against whenever the model was trained.