Connect OpenClaw to your email through Mailopoly

This page is about OpenClaw, the open-source personal agent you run yourself — the project formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, which people still search for by those names. OpenClaw's own channels (WhatsApp, Telegram and the rest) are how you *talk to* it; this page is about what it can reach.

Does OpenClaw support Gmail without Mailopoly?

Through skills, with set-up. Email isn't one of OpenClaw's channels. Its bundled gog skill is a Google Workspace CLI that needs your own Google Cloud OAuth client — you create the client, download the JSON, run gog auth — and its himalaya skill talks IMAP and SMTP to any provider with an app password kept in a config file on the gateway. Both work; both put a credential on the machine and hand OpenClaw raw messages, one provider at a time.

Mailopoly replaces that with one OAuth sign-in: no Google Cloud project, no app password on disk, every provider in one connection, every account in one question, and mail that arrives already filtered by Cleanbox with invoices, events and deliveries extracted. Reading, making changes and sending are separate grants you can revoke from Mailopoly at any time.

Connect OpenClaw to your email in three steps

What OpenClaw can do with your email through Mailopoly

• Search every account in one question — Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud and IMAP together, or one account by name — by sender, date, topic or the half-remembered phrase somewhere in the body.
• Work from the Cleanbox — your personal, non-promotional mail already separated from newsletters, promotions and automated noise, so a summary is a summary of what matters.
• Read summaries, not raw messages — every email arrives already summarised, with invoices, events and deliveries extracted with their amounts, dates and status.
• Keep My Day — see tasks and commitments pulled from every inbox, add tasks and reminders, tick things off.
• Draft and send — save drafts to Mailopoly for you to review, or with the send permission send from whichever connected address fits the conversation, or from your @mly.life address.
• Know what things cost — look up an invoice, total the week's bills, see what your subscriptions add up to.
• Tidy up — label, file or clear mail in bulk, when you tell it to.
• Business channels too — add them to your plan and your Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and TikTok messages sit in the same connection, and replies go back out through the channel they arrived on.

Should you give an agent your email account at all?

The warnings you'll find are right about one thing: an agent that logs in to Gmail as you, with your password, on a machine you don't control, is a bad idea. Mailopoly doesn't work that way. Your Google and Microsoft accounts connect to Mailopoly through their own sign-in, and other providers through an app password you enter on Mailopoly's page — OpenClaw never has a password in its hands and never logs in to your provider at all.

OpenClaw connects to Mailopoly with a scoped OAuth sign-in. Reading, making changes and sending are separate grants, sending is flagged as a confirm-first action in the protocol itself, every tool call is audit-logged against your account, and you can revoke OpenClaw from Settings → Security → Connected AI assistants in the Mailopoly app — access ends immediately. Mailopoly is independently security-assessed to CASA Tier 2 by TAC Security. If you want a hard line, give OpenClaw reading only, or give it one of your @mly.life addresses to send from so nothing leaves under your name unless you say so. More on whether it's safe to give AI access to your email and the security page.

What goes wrong with OpenClaw, and the fix

• `openclaw mcp login` has nowhere to open a browser. The sign-in needs a browser on some machine. Copy the printed URL to a laptop, finish the sign-in there, and the gateway picks it up.
• The tools show but every call is refused. OpenClaw's tool policy or approval gate is blocking them. Allow the Mailopoly tools for the agent or session you're using.
• You already have gog or himalaya set up. Keep them if you like; Mailopoly adds the accounts those don't reach and the sorting they don't do. Remove the app password from the gateway once you no longer need himalaya.
• It connected but the tools don't answer. Mailopoly's tools respond on an active subscription or trial. If the trial has lapsed, the connection stays but calls return nothing useful until the plan is active.
• It can read but won't draft or send. Those are separate permissions. Sign in again from OpenClaw and tick making changes or sending — or check what it holds under Settings → Security → Connected AI assistants in Mailopoly.

Related: OpenClaw on the Switchboard · Email for AI agents · Connect WhatsApp Business · Is it safe to give AI access to your email?

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