fix(email): add OAuth XOAUTH2 support to MCP email server

[rudra496]

Summary

The agent's MCP email tools couldn't access Gmail Workspace accounts set up via OAuth. The UI routes (routes/email_helpers.py) handle OAuth correctly, but the MCP email server (mcp_servers/email_server.py) completely ignored the OAuth layer:

1. _read_accounts_from_db() — the SQL query didn't select the oauth_provider, oauth_access_token, oauth_refresh_token, or oauth_token_expiry columns, so OAuth data was never loaded.
2. _imap_connect() — always used conn.login(user, password) with no XOAUTH2 path.
3. _smtp_connect() — same: always conn.login(user, password), no XOAUTH2.
4. _smtp_ready() — required smtp_password, rejecting OAuth accounts that don't have one.

Fix (all in mcp_servers/email_server.py):

• Added OAuth columns to the SQL SELECT with column-existence guards (same pattern as the existing owner and smtp_security handling for older DBs).
• Load oauth_provider, oauth_access_token, oauth_refresh_token, oauth_token_expiry into cfg in _load_config() (decrypted via src.secret_storage).
• _imap_connect(): when oauth_provider == "google", use conn.authenticate("XOAUTH2", ...) with the token from _get_valid_google_token() — reusing the same refresh logic as the UI routes.
• _smtp_connect(): same XOAUTH2 path via conn.auth("XOAUTH2", ...).
• _smtp_ready(): OAuth accounts only need smtp_host + smtp_user (no password required).

The XOAUTH2 helpers (_get_valid_google_token, _xoauth2_bytes, _xoauth2_raw) are imported from routes.email_helpers so the MCP server and UI share the same token-refresh and auth logic — no duplication.

Target branch

• This PR targets dev, not main.

Linked Issue

Fixes #4992

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking — fixes a confirmed issue)
• New feature (non-breaking — adds new behaviour)
• Breaking change (changes or removes existing behaviour)
• Refactor / cleanup (behaviour unchanged)
• Documentation only
• CI / tooling / configuration

Checklist

• I searched open issues and open PRs — this is not a duplicate.
• This PR targets dev
• My changes are limited to the scope described above — no unrelated refactors or whitespace changes mixed in.
• I ran python -m pytest tests/test_email_oauth.py tests/test_email_smtp_security.py tests/test_email_send_only_no_inbox.py tests/test_email_imap_timeout.py -v — all 39 tests pass.

How to Test

1. python -m pytest tests/test_email_oauth.py -v — 28 OAuth tests pass, including test_smtp_ready_true_for_oauth_account_without_password, test_imap_connect_uses_xoauth2_for_oauth_accounts, and test_get_valid_google_token_refreshes_when_expired.
2. python -m pytest tests/test_email_smtp_security.py tests/test_email_send_only_no_inbox.py tests/test_email_imap_timeout.py -v — 11 connection/security tests pass.
3. python -m py_compile mcp_servers/email_server.py — syntax check passes.
4. Manual: connect a Gmail Workspace account via OAuth (Settings → Integrations), then ask the agent to list emails — the MCP email tool now connects via XOAUTH2 instead of failing with an auth error.

Visual / UI changes — REQUIRED if you touched anything that renders

Not applicable: backend MCP email server only.

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[alain-sarti]

Thanks for jumping on this — I filed #4992 and had started on the same fix, so great to see it moving. The diagnosis matches what I found, and the IMAP/SMTP XOAUTH2 branches and _smtp_ready change all look right.

Two things I'd suggest folding in before merge:

1. Refreshed tokens don't get back into the cached config.
_load_config() caches each account's cfg in _ACCOUNT_CACHE for the life of the (long-lived) stdio process. _get_valid_google_token() decides whether to refresh by reading cfg["oauth_token_expiry"], and on refresh it persists the new token to the DB but never updates the passed-in cfg — so _load_config() keeps handing back the stale cached copy. Net effect: the first call works, but once that access token expires (~1h), every subsequent IMAP/SMTP connect sees "expired" and re-hits oauth2.googleapis.com/token. Correct, but it hammers the token endpoint per-operation and is fragile under Google's rate limits. Simplest fix: write the new token + expiry back into cfg in place after a refresh.

2. The changed MCP code isn't covered by any test.
The suites referenced here import from routes.email_helpers / routes.email_routes only (e.g. test_smtp_ready_* do from routes.email_routes import _smtp_ready, not the MCP server's). So none of the actually-changed branches in mcp_servers/email_server.py are exercised. A small test importing mcp_servers.email_server directly — _load_config loading oauth_*, _smtp_ready for OAuth-without-password, and the XOAUTH2 paths in _imap_connect/_smtp_connect — would lock it in.

I have a branch with the cache handling and these MCP tests already written — happy to share the patch or open them as a follow-up, whichever's easier. Thanks again for driving this. 🙏

[rudra496]

Thanks for the thorough review, Alain — both points are spot on.