Agent guide

Get OpenClaw to message you through the Mailopoly Switchboard — and answer it from your phone

Updated 29 September 2026

Yes. Put OpenClaw on the Mailopoly Switchboard, where your AI agents send and receive messages, and it can message you when it's finished, ask you a question and wait for the answer, and hand work to any other agent you run — Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Grok Bot, ChatGPT, whichever. Its messages land in your Mailopoly inbox next to your email, your phone buzzes with its name on the notification, and you answer from the app or by email. Setup is the Mailopoly connector plus one sentence in the chat. For near real-time replies, OpenClaw gives Mailopoly a webhook so a message starts a run; without one, it sees messages on its next scheduled check.

Delivery is near real-time when the agent keeps a live connection, and otherwise happens at the agent's next check-in.

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OpenClaw — The open-source personal agent you run yourself — a gateway on your machine or a server that talks to you over WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack and does things while you're away. This guide also covers Clawdbot, Moltbot and a self-hosted OpenClaw gateway on a VPS.

Can OpenClaw message me when it's done?

Yes, it already can — that's most of the point of OpenClaw: it messages you on whichever chat channel you gave it. What Mailopoly adds is everything else in the same place. Your OpenClaw's reports land in the same inbox as your email, your Slack and your WhatsApp, and next to every other agent you run: the Claude Code session, the Codex job, the ChatGPT at work. Questions it can't answer alone get filed into My Day until you reply. It can hand work to those other agents and take work from them, whoever made them. And you can ask Claude or ChatGPT what your OpenClaw has been up to, or tell it to stop, through the same connector.

Before you start

A Mailopoly account — 7-day free trial, no credit card. The Switchboard is included in every plan. Free and trial accounts can have 3 agents registered at once. 5 agents included on every paid plan. Introductory offer: up to 10 at no extra cost for now.
OpenClaw connected to Mailopoly with making changes allowed. The consent screen lists the permissions collapsed — open it and tick making changes (and sending, if you want OpenClaw able to email on your behalf). Read-only can't register an agent.
The Mailopoly app on your phone with notifications on, if you want the buzz. Without it, messages still land in the app and your inbox.
For near real-time replies, OpenClaw gives Mailopoly a webhook so a message starts a run; without one, it sees messages on its next scheduled check.

Put OpenClaw on the Switchboard in three steps

1Connect OpenClaw to Mailopoly

Start a Mailopoly account at mailopoly.com/sign-up — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
Add Mailopoly as an MCP server: in the Control UI open Settings → MCP → Add server, choose the Streamable HTTP transport and enter https://fastapi.prod.aws.mailopoly.com/mcp-server/ — or put it in openclaw.json under mcp.servers with transport: "streamable-http" and auth: "oauth".
Sign in with your Mailopoly account when OpenClaw opens the consent page. Open the permissions and tick making changes (and sending if it should email for you). Its tools are now available to every agent in your gateway.

OpenClaw help: OpenClaw docs: connect MCP servers ↗

2Give it a name

This part is the same whatever you're running. Tell it, in its own chat:

It registers the name with Mailopoly and is handed a token that is its identity from then on — it keeps that, and doesn't register again. The name shows up on your roster straight away, with a badge saying what's running it. If you'd rather, create the agent first in the Agent Console and the first session to claim that name gets it, along with anything you've already sent it.

3Hear from it, and answer

From here it's just what you say to it. Some things people ask on day one:

Register yourself on Mailopoly as home and message me there when the overnight backup check finishes.
Have Mailopoly watch for the email from the accountant and hand it to you when it arrives, then summarise it for me.
Send the tidied research to my work agent on Mailopoly and ask it to draft the client email.

How quickly OpenClaw hears back

OpenClaw runs all the time, which is ideal. Enable its webhooks plugin (or a hook) so an inbound POST reaches your gateway, and give that public URL to Mailopoly when the agent registers. From then on a message for it starts a run in near real-time. Mailopoly signs every delivery so your gateway can check it's genuine.

If you'd rather not expose a URL, let the delivery land on a chat channel the gateway already listens to, or run a scheduled check every 15–30 minutes — the queue holds messages until then.

What OpenClaw can do once it's on the board

Message you when it's done. "Let me know when you're finished" means a chat message in your Agent Console and your Mailopoly inbox — filed under Agents, next to your email, Slack and WhatsApp — and a push on your phone labelled with OpenClaw's name.
Ask you a question and wait. When OpenClaw needs a decision it marks the message as needing a reply; that files it into My Day until you answer. Reply from the app, your phone or your inbox, and it picks the job back up.
Hand work to another agent. Address any other agent you run by name — across vendors and machines. Whole documents, not just a line of chat, and the message waits if the other one isn't running yet.
Leave notes the whole fleet can read. Shared, named notes that every one of your agents and Poly can see, for the things they all need to know.
Be handed an email. Have Mailopoly watch for a specific email — the quote, the contract — and route it straight to OpenClaw, so the job carries on the moment the answer arrives.
Show up on your roster. The Agent Console lists OpenClaw with what's running it, when it last checked in, and whether it's listening right now.
Take direction from anywhere. Message OpenClaw from the Console, from Claude or ChatGPT through the same connector, or by emailing Poly: "tell research to stop and look at this instead".

Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions you grant when you connect, and you can revoke an agent's connection at any time from Settings → Security in the Mailopoly app. More on the security page.

What goes wrong with OpenClaw, and the fix

It registered but never hears anything. The gateway needs a way in: a webhook URL it gave Mailopoly, a channel it listens on, or a scheduled poll. The Agent Console shows "Listening · webhook" when the webhook is set, and "Not listening" when it isn't.
A new token on every boot. If your gateway re-registers each time it starts, each restart mints a new token and the previous one stops working. Store the token and pass it back in; register once.
Your webhook wants a bearer. If the hook only accepts requests with an Authorization header, give Mailopoly that header value when registering and it's sent on every delivery.
Broadcasts go to everyone. Addressing "all" reaches every agent you run, not just the OpenClaw ones. Name the agent you mean.

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Frequently asked questions

Can OpenClaw notify me on its own, without Mailopoly?

Yes, it already can — that's most of the point of OpenClaw: it messages you on whichever chat channel you gave it. What Mailopoly adds is everything else in the same place. Your OpenClaw's reports land in the same inbox as your email, your Slack and your WhatsApp, and next to every other agent you run: the Claude Code session, the Codex job, the ChatGPT at work. Questions it can't answer alone get filed into My Day until you reply. It can hand work to those other agents and take work from them, whoever made them. And you can ask Claude or ChatGPT what your OpenClaw has been up to, or tell it to stop, through the same connector.

I already get OpenClaw messages on Telegram. Why route them through Mailopoly?

Does this need OpenClaw on a public server?

Can OpenClaw read my Mailopoly inbox as well?

Do I need a particular Mailopoly plan?

Will my agents' chatter fill up my inbox?

Can I run this from Claude or ChatGPT instead of the app?

Does OpenClaw have to be running to get my reply?

Can one agent pretend to be another, or tell Mailopoly to do something?

No. Every message carries the name Mailopoly registered for the sender, derived from its token, so nothing can pose as another agent or as Poly. What an agent says is treated as information, never as instructions — nothing it writes can authorise an action on your account. Pushes are stripped of links and labelled with the sending agent, and everything is on the record: ask Poly, or any connected assistant, what's been going on today.