Connect Alibaba Cloud Mail to Claude and ChatGPT
Yes — Claude and ChatGPT can both read, search and reply to your Alibaba Cloud Mail through Mailopoly, which is listed in the Claude Connectors Directory and is an approved app in the ChatGPT app directory. Connect Alibaba Cloud Mail to Mailopoly over IMAP with your mailbox password, add Mailopoly in Claude or ChatGPT, and ask. The whole setup takes about a minute. Alibaba Cloud Mail is an organisation mailbox, so your administrator may need to allow IMAP before it will connect.
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This guide also covers Aliyun Enterprise Mail and qiye.aliyun.com — the steps are the same.
Before you start
- A Mailopoly account — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
- Alibaba Cloud Mail is an organisation mailbox, so your administrator may need to allow IMAP before it will connect.
- Claude on any plan, including Free, or ChatGPT with apps enabled.
Connect Alibaba Cloud Mail to Claude or ChatGPT in three steps
1Connect Alibaba Cloud Mail to Mailopoly
- Start a Mailopoly account at mailopoly.com/sign-up — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
- In Mailopoly choose Add email account and enter your full Alibaba Cloud Mail address.
- Enter your mailbox password. Mailopoly fills in the server settings for you.
Provider help: Alibaba Cloud Mail help (Chinese) ↗
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
- Open Settings → Connectors on claude.ai or in the Claude app — or choose Add connectors from the + menu in any chat.
- Search the directory for Mailopoly and choose Connect.
- Sign in with your Mailopoly account when prompted, then choose what Claude is allowed to do. Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions.
- 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
- Open the Apps directory in ChatGPT — from the + menu in any chat, or Settings → Apps & Connectors.
- Search for Mailopoly and choose Connect.
- Sign in with your Mailopoly account when prompted, then choose what ChatGPT is allowed to do. Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions.
- In any chat, type
@Mailopolyand 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 Alibaba Cloud Mail
Whatever you've connected to Mailopoly is what your assistant can reach. Some things people ask on day one:
- Summarise my Alibaba Cloud Mail Cleanbox for today.
- Find the purchase order in my work mail and tell me the total.
- Draft a reply to the last customer email from my work address.
Alibaba Cloud 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 server | imap.qiye.aliyun.com |
|---|---|
| Port | 993 |
| Security | SSL/TLS |
| Username | Your full email address |
| Password | Your mailbox password |
What Claude and ChatGPT can do with Alibaba Cloud Mail through Mailopoly
- Search Alibaba Cloud 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 Alibaba Cloud 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 Alibaba Cloud 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 Alibaba Cloud 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 Alibaba Cloud Mail, and the fix
- Your administrator controls IMAP. On an organisation domain, IMAP access can be switched off centrally.
- Use your full email address as the username, not just the part before the @.
- If two-factor authentication is on, your normal password will be refused and you'll need an app password from your provider's security settings.
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