Connect AOL Mail to Claude and ChatGPT
Yes — Claude and ChatGPT can both read, search and reply to your AOL Mail through Mailopoly, which is listed in the Claude Connectors Directory and is an approved app in the ChatGPT app directory. Connect AOL Mail to Mailopoly with an AOL app password, add Mailopoly in Claude or ChatGPT, and ask. The whole setup takes about a minute. AOL requires a third-party app password generated on the AOL Account Security page; your normal AOL password won't work in mail apps.
Before you start
- A Mailopoly account — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
- AOL requires a third-party app password generated on the AOL Account Security page; your normal AOL password won't work in mail apps.
- Claude on any plan, including Free, or ChatGPT with apps enabled.
Connect AOL Mail to Claude or ChatGPT in three steps
1Connect AOL Mail to Mailopoly
- Start a Mailopoly account at mailopoly.com/sign-up — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
- Sign in to AOL, open Account Security (login.aol.com/myaccount/security) and choose Generate app password. Name it Mailopoly.
- Copy the app password AOL shows you.
- In Mailopoly choose Add email account, enter your full AOL address, and paste the app password in the password field. Mailopoly fills in the server settings for you.
Provider help: AOL help: create and manage app passwords ↗
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 AOL Mail
Whatever you've connected to Mailopoly is what your assistant can reach. Some things people ask on day one:
- Anything important in my AOL mail this week?
- Find the pharmacy email in my AOL inbox and tell me when the prescription is ready.
- Reply to the last message from my brother from my AOL address.
AOL 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 | export.imap.aol.com |
|---|---|
| Port | 993 |
| Security | SSL/TLS |
| Username | Your full email address |
| Password | AOL app password |
What Claude and ChatGPT can do with AOL Mail through Mailopoly
- Search AOL 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 AOL 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 AOL 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 AOL 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 AOL Mail, and the fix
- Your normal AOL password won't work. AOL only accepts app passwords from third-party mail apps. A login failure almost always means the account password was used instead.
- The server is export.imap.aol.com, not imap.aol.com. Mailopoly fills this in for you; if you edit it by hand, keep the export prefix.
- Old, inactive AOL accounts sometimes need a sign-in on the AOL website first before an app password can be generated.
7-day free trial, no credit card. Connect AOL Mail in about a minute.
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