Services / Email (IMAP/SMTP)

Connect Email (IMAP/SMTP) to Claude and ChatGPT

Any IMAP/SMTP mailbox: iCloud, Fastmail or your company mail.

  • API key or app password
  • 8 actions, 3 read-only
  • Several accounts at once
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How to connect

Your email address and an app password. Takes about two minutes.

  1. Enter your email address in the form.
  2. Create an app password in your mail account’s security settings: the steps for your provider are right here.
  3. Paste it into the form and click Connect. Manyplug checks the mailbox right away.

App password: steps for your provider

Gmail / Google Workspace
  1. Turn on 2-Step Verification for your Google account, if it is not on yet.Open 2-Step Verification
  2. Open App passwords, type Manyplug as the app name and click Create.Open App passwords
  3. Copy the 16-letter password and paste it into the form. Spaces do not matter.
Outlook.com / Microsoft 365
  1. Microsoft accounts no longer accept passwords over IMAP. Connect the Outlook service instead: it signs in with Microsoft.
iCloud Mail
  1. Sign in to your Apple Account and open Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords.Open Apple Account
  2. Click Add (+), name it Manyplug and copy the password (xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx).
  3. In the form, use your @icloud.com address, not the Apple Account email, if they differ.
Fastmail
  1. Open Settings → Privacy & Security → Manage app passwords and access, then New app password.Open Fastmail app passwords
  2. Choose access to Mail (IMAP/SMTP), name it Manyplug and click Generate.
  3. Copy the password and paste it into the form.
Yahoo Mail
  1. Open Account security in your Yahoo account and choose Generate app password. If Yahoo asks, turn on 2-step verification first.Open Yahoo account security
  2. Name the app Manyplug, click Generate and copy the password.
  3. Paste it into the form. Your regular Yahoo password does not work here.
Yandex Mail
  1. In Yandex Mail settings, open Email clients and allow access via IMAP with app passwords.Open mail client settings
  2. Open Yandex ID → Security → App passwords, choose Mail, name it Manyplug and create it.Open app passwords
  3. Copy the password and paste it into the form.
Mail.ru
  1. Open Mail.ru account → Security → Passwords for external apps and add one.Open passwords for external apps
  2. Name it Manyplug, choose full access to the mailbox (IMAP, SMTP), copy the password and paste it into the form.
Other server
  1. Find the IMAP and SMTP server names and ports in your provider’s help or ask your mail admin. For Zoho, for example, they are imap.zoho.com and smtp.zoho.com (zoho.eu for EU accounts), and IMAP is turned on in Zoho Mail settings.
  2. In the form, choose Other server and fill them in under Advanced settings.
  3. Use an app password if your provider offers them, otherwise the mailbox password.
  • Several mailboxes? Connect each one; the AI can search them one by one or all at once.
  • Proton Mail offers IMAP only through the Proton Mail Bridge app on your own computer, so it cannot be connected from the cloud yet.

Try asking

  • Show today’s unread emails in my Fastmail.
  • Find the hotel booking confirmation for Lisbon.
  • Reply to Tom’s last email that I am in.
  • Move last week’s newsletters to Archive.

Several accounts? Connect each one and give it a name, for example Work and Personal.

What the AI can do: 8 actions

Each action can be turned off per account, and changes can wait for your OK.

ActionAccess
List folders
Mail folders with their role (inbox, sent, trash…) and message and unread counts.
imap_list_folders
Reads
Search mail
Finds messages in a folder, newest first, with date, sender, subject, a snippet and read status.
imap_search
Reads
Read a message
Opens a message as plain text without the quoted history, with headers and attachments.
imap_read
Reads
Send an email
Sends a new plain-text email from this mailbox.
imap_send
Risky
Reply
Replies in the same thread, optionally to all recipients.
imap_reply
Risky
Forward
Forwards a message with all its attachments and an optional note.
imap_forward
Risky
Move messages
Moves messages to the archive, trash, junk or any other folder.
imap_move
Makes changes
Mark messages
Marks messages read or unread and flags or unflags them.
imap_mark
Makes changes