How to integrate Bigmailer MCP with Codex

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Bigmailer MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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BigMailer is an email marketing platform for managing multiple brands with white-labeling and automation. It helps teams streamline campaigns and simplify integration with Amazon SES.

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Introduction

Codex is one of the most popular coding harnesses out there. And MCP makes the experience even better. With Bigmailer MCP integration, you can draft, triage, summarise emails, and much more, all without leaving the terminal or the app, whichever you prefer.

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Why use Composio?

Apart from a managed and hosted MCP server, you will get:

  • CodeAct: A dedicated workbench that allows GPT to write its code to handle complex tool chaining. Reduces to-and-fro with LLMs for frequent tool calling.
  • Large tool responses: Handle them to minimise context rot.
  • Dynamic just-in-time access to 20,000 tools across 1000+ other Apps for cross-app workflows. It loads the tools you need, so GPTs aren't overwhelmed by tools you don't need.

How to install Bigmailer MCP in Codex

Run the setup command

Run this command in your terminal to add the Composio MCP server to Codex.

Terminal

It will initiate the authentication in a browser window, authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

Composio authentication page

(Optional) Authenticate with OAuth

To authenticate manually, run the login command to open a browser window and authorize Codex to access your Composio account.

bash
codex mcp login composio

Verify the connection

Run codex mcp list to confirm Composio appears as a registered MCP server.

bash
codex mcp list

Codex App

Codex App follows the same approach as VS Code.

  1. Click ⚙️ on the bottom left → MCP Servers → + Add servers → Streamable HTTP:
  2. Fill the header and Key fields with { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }.
  3. The Key is the Composio API key, that you can find on dashboard.composio.dev
  4. Click on Authenticate and authorize Codex to your Composio account and you're all set.
Codex App MCP setup
  1. Restart and verify if it's there in .codex/config.toml
bash
[mcp_servers.composio]
url = "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
http_headers = { "x-consumer-api-key" = "ck_*******" }

What is the Bigmailer MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Bigmailer MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Bigmailer account. It provides structured and secure access to your email marketing platform, so your agent can perform actions like creating transactional campaigns, retrieving your brands, and managing user account details on your behalf.

  • Automated transactional campaign creation: Have your agent quickly set up new transactional email campaigns for any of your brands, with full control over content, sender details, and subject lines.
  • Brand management and discovery: Let your agent list and organize all brands associated with your Bigmailer account, providing a clear overview for multi-brand operations.
  • User account information retrieval: Easily check your authenticated user details to verify API connectivity and view essential account information in real time.
  • Multi-brand marketing workflow automation: Empower your agent to streamline campaign launches and brand management across multiple business entities from one place.

Conclusion

You've successfully integrated Bigmailer with Codex using Composio's MCP server. Now you can interact with Bigmailer directly from your terminal, VS Code, or the Codex App using natural language commands.

Key benefits of this setup:

  • Seamless integration across CLI, VS Code, and standalone app
  • Natural language commands for Bigmailer operations
  • Managed authentication through Composio
  • Access to 20,000+ tools across 1000+ apps for cross-app workflows
  • CodeAct workbench for complex tool chaining

Next steps:

  • Try asking Codex to perform various Bigmailer operations
  • Explore cross-app workflows by connecting more toolkits
  • Build automation scripts that leverage Codex's AI capabilities
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Bigmailer action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Brand

Tool to create a new brand in BigMailer.

Create Brand Property

Tool to create a brand property in BigMailer.

Create Bulk Campaign

Tool to create a bulk email campaign in BigMailer.

Create Contact

Tool to create a new contact in BigMailer within a specified brand.

Create Contact Batch

Tool to create a batch of contacts in BigMailer for a specific brand.

Create Field

Tool to create a custom field in a BigMailer brand.

Create List

Creates a new contact list within a specified brand in BigMailer.

Create Segment

Tool to create a segment in BigMailer for a specific brand.

Create Suppression List

Tool to upload a suppression list for a brand in BigMailer.

Create Template

Tool to create a new email or page template in BigMailer.

Create Transactional Campaign

Creates a new transactional campaign within a specified brand in BigMailer.

Create User

Tool to create a new user in BigMailer.

Delete Brand Property

Tool to delete a brand property from a brand in BigMailer.

Delete Contact

Tool to delete a contact from a brand in BigMailer.

Delete Custom Field

Deletes a custom field from a specified brand in BigMailer.

Delete List

Tool to delete a list from BigMailer.

Delete Segment

Tool to delete a segment from a brand in BigMailer.

Delete Template

Tool to delete a template from BigMailer.

Delete User

Tool to delete a user from BigMailer.

Get Brand

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific brand by its ID.

Get Brand Property

Tool to retrieve a specific brand property by its ID for a given brand.

Get Bulk Campaign

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific bulk campaign in BigMailer.

Get Contact

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific contact from BigMailer.

Get Contact Batch Status

Tool to retrieve the status and results of a contact batch upload in BigMailer.

Get Custom Field

Tool to retrieve a custom field from a BigMailer brand.

Get List

Tool to retrieve details of a specific list within a brand.

Get Segment

Tool to retrieve a specific segment from BigMailer by brand ID and segment ID.

Get Suppression List

Tool to retrieve details of a specific suppression list for a brand in BigMailer.

Get Template

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific template by its ID.

Get Transactional Campaign

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific transactional campaign in BigMailer.

Get User

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific user by their ID.

Get User Information

This tool retrieves information about the authenticated user in BigMailer using the GET /me endpoint.

List All Brands

This tool retrieves a list of all brands associated with the authenticated BigMailer account.

List Brand Properties

Tool to retrieve a list of brand properties for a specific brand in BigMailer.

List Bulk Campaigns

Tool to list bulk campaigns for a specified brand in BigMailer.

List Connections

Tool to list all connections in your BigMailer account.

List Contacts

Tool to list contacts for a brand in BigMailer.

List Fields

Tool to list custom fields for a brand in BigMailer.

List Contact Lists

Tool to retrieve all contact lists for a specified brand in BigMailer.

List Message Types

Tool to list message types for a specific brand in BigMailer.

List Segments

Tool to list segments for a brand in BigMailer.

List Senders

Tool to list all senders configured for a specific brand in BigMailer.

List Suppression Lists

Tool to list suppression lists for a specific brand.

List Templates

Tool to list templates for a brand in BigMailer.

List Transactional Campaigns

Tool to list transactional campaigns for a specified brand in BigMailer.

List Users

Tool to list all users in your BigMailer account.

Update Brand

Tool to update a brand in BigMailer.

Update Brand Property

Tool to update a brand property in BigMailer.

Update Bulk Campaign

Tool to update an existing bulk campaign in BigMailer.

Update Contact

Tool to update an existing contact in BigMailer.

Update Field

Tool to update a custom field in BigMailer.

Update List

Tool to update a list in BigMailer.

Update Segment

Tool to update an existing segment in BigMailer.

Update Template

Tool to update an existing email or page template in BigMailer.

Update Transactional Campaign

Tool to update a transactional campaign in BigMailer.

Update User

Tool to update a user in BigMailer.

Upsert Contact

Tool to create or update a contact in a BigMailer brand.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Bigmailer MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Bigmailer tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Bigmailer and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Codex fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Bigmailer tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Bigmailer scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Bigmailer data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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