Connect guide

Connect AOL Mail to Grok

Updated 29 October 2026

Yes — Grok can read, search and reply to your AOL Mail through Mailopoly. Connect AOL Mail to Mailopoly with an AOL app password, add Mailopoly to Grok as a custom connector, sign in and ask. One connection covers AOL Mail and every other account you own. AOL requires a third-party app password generated on the AOL Account Security page; your normal AOL password won't work in mail apps.

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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.
Grok at grok.com or in the Grok apps. On Grok Business or Enterprise, an admin adds the connector for the team first.

Connect AOL Mail to Grok in three steps

1 Connect 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 ↗

2 Add Mailopoly to Grok

This part is the same whatever you connected in step 1.

Add Mailopoly to Grok

These steps are taken from public documentation, and we haven't yet checked each one in Grok ourselves. If a label doesn't match what you see, Grok's own help page, linked below, has the current wording.

Go to grok.com/connectors.
Choose New Connector, then Custom, and enter https://fastapi.prod.aws.mailopoly.com/mcp-server/ as the MCP server URL. If it asks for a name, use Mailopoly.
Sign in with your Mailopoly account when prompted, then choose what Grok is allowed to do. Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions.
Back in a chat, ask.

Grok takes Mailopoly as a custom connector, so the only thing to paste is one address. On Grok Business and Enterprise, an admin adds the connector for the team first in the xAI console. This is Grok's chat at grok.com and in the Grok apps; a Grok Bot has its own guide.

Connectors in Grok — xAI docs ↗

3 Ask 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 Grok 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 Grok 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.
No Custom option under New Connector: on Grok Business and Enterprise, connectors are managed by an admin in the xAI console — ask them to add Mailopoly for the team.
Setting up a Grok Bot instead? This guide is for Grok's chat at grok.com and in the Grok apps. A Grok Bot has its own guide: Connect Grok Bot to your email.