I access gmail with the web client that comes with the iPhone and I've done the same with Android, performance is good enough in both cases. For that matter I've used the IMAP support in EM Client to access gmail.

Founder of https://www.nango.dev here.

A lot of teams use us for their Gmail & Google calendar integrations.

If you want to run complex queries across large parts of the data, syncing + indexing on your side will be necessary. Limits on filters, pagination & rate limits make it infeasible to search across most of a user's inbox without tens of seconds to minutes of latency.

But before you sync all the data, I would test if your users actually need to run such queries.

Both Gmail & Google Calendar have a query endpoint that searches across many fields. I would start with a simple tool for your agent to run queries on that, and expand from there if necessary.

Both Nango and Composio could do this for you.

With Nango, you would also get syncs on the same platform, if it turns out you need them.

Hope this helps!

Not quite sure what you're asking for. Are you asking for a GUI/cli, or something else?

I've built exactly what you're describing, but for the sake of a b2c product.

Convictional founder here. Our experience is different than others:

- We had to sync, pre process and index the data to make the resultant knowledge search outputs actually good. MCP totally fails at this by comparison.

- It is not hugely painful thanks to bulk APIs, in Gmail in particular, as well as webhooks. We implemented both of them and it works well (so far).

- We wired it all up ourselves. Given the conclusion we had about pre-processing and indexing being required to make it work well, this seems preferred.

I think that MCP and using an integration platform will ultimately not work for any kind of agentic or deep research task heavily depending on Gmail context.