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Connect 163 Mail to Claude and ChatGPT

Yes — Claude and ChatGPT can both read, search and reply to your 163 Mail through Mailopoly, which is listed in the Claude Connectors Directory and is an approved app in the ChatGPT app directory. Connect 163 Mail to Mailopoly with a NetEase authorization code, add Mailopoly in Claude or ChatGPT, and ask. The whole setup takes about a minute. 163 Mail requires an authorization code generated in NetEase's settings; your mailbox password won't work in mail apps.

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This guide also covers NetEase Mail, 126.com, yeah.net and 188.com — the steps are the same.

Before you start

  • A Mailopoly account — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
  • 163 Mail requires an authorization code generated in NetEase's settings; your mailbox password won't work in mail apps.
  • Claude on any plan, including Free, or ChatGPT with apps enabled.

Connect 163 Mail to Claude or ChatGPT in three steps

1Connect 163 Mail to Mailopoly

  1. Start a Mailopoly account at mailopoly.com/sign-up — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
  2. In 163 Mail on the web, open Settings → POP3/SMTP/IMAP and switch on the IMAP/SMTP service.
  3. Create an authorization code and complete the security check NetEase asks for. Copy the code.
  4. In Mailopoly choose Add email account, enter your full 163 address and paste the authorization code in the password field.

Provider help: NetEase Mail help centre

2Add Mailopoly to Claude or ChatGPT

This part is the same whatever you connected in step 1. Mailopoly is listed in both directories, so it's a search and a tap — no endpoint URL to paste.

Claude

  1. Open Settings → Connectors on claude.ai or in the Claude app — or choose Add connectors from the + menu in any chat.
  2. Search the directory for Mailopoly and choose Connect.
  3. Sign in with your Mailopoly account when prompted, then choose what Claude is allowed to do. Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions.
  4. Back in the chat, make sure the Mailopoly connector is switched on, then ask.

One listing covers Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude mobile, Claude Code and Cowork, and it works on every Claude plan, including Free. In Claude Code you can also run claude mcp add --transport http mailopoly https://fastapi.prod.aws.mailopoly.com/mcp-server/ and then /mcp to sign in.

ChatGPT

  1. Open the Apps directory in ChatGPT — from the + menu in any chat, or Settings → Apps & Connectors.
  2. Search for Mailopoly and choose Connect.
  3. Sign in with your Mailopoly account when prompted, then choose what ChatGPT is allowed to do. Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions.
  4. In any chat, type @Mailopoly and ask.

Mailopoly is an approved app in the ChatGPT app directory, so there's no developer mode and no endpoint URL to paste. Once connected it's available in every ChatGPT conversation on the web and in the mobile apps.

Using something else? Claude Code, Cowork, Codex and any client that supports remote MCP servers connect the same way — the Mailopoly MCP page has the endpoint and per-client steps.

3Ask about your 163 Mail

Whatever you've connected to Mailopoly is what your assistant can reach. Some things people ask on day one:

  • What's new in my 163 Mail Cleanbox today?
  • Find the delivery notice in my 163 Mail and track the parcel.
  • Reply to the last message from the supplier from my 163 address.

163 Mail server settings

Mailopoly fills these in for you when you enter your address. They're here in case you need to check them or your provider uses something unusual.

IMAP serverimap.163.com
Port993
SecuritySSL/TLS
UsernameYour full email address
PasswordNetEase authorization code

What Claude and ChatGPT can do with 163 Mail through Mailopoly

  • Search 163 Mail — and every other account you own — in one question. By sender, date, topic, or the half-remembered phrase somewhere in the body.
  • Read your Cleanbox, not your whole inbox. Mailopoly sorts 163 Mail as it arrives: personal and important mail in Cleanbox, promotions and newsletters in Other. Ask for either.
  • Summarise a thread, a day or a week. "What did the school send this week?" comes back as an answer, not a list of links.
  • Reply from your 163 Mail address, in your voice. Save a draft to Mailopoly for review, or send — sending is a separate permission and a confirm-first action.
  • Schedule a send for later, and cancel it if you change your mind.
  • Pull out invoices, events and deliveries. Amounts and due dates, calendar invitations, parcel tracking — extracted on arrival and added to My Day.
  • Find an attachment. Every attachment from 163 Mail lands in PolyBox, so "find the PDF the accountant sent" just works.
  • Unsubscribe, snooze, file and mark read from the chat, on whichever account the mail belongs to.

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

What goes wrong with 163 Mail, and the fix

  • Your mailbox password won't work. Only the authorization code is accepted.
  • The code is shown once and can't be recovered, only replaced.
  • 126.com, yeah.net and 188.com accounts use the same process on their own servers, which Mailopoly sets for you.
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