Connect 163 Mail to Perplexity
Yes — Perplexity can read, search and reply to your 163 Mail through Mailopoly. Connect 163 Mail to Mailopoly with a NetEase authorization code, add Mailopoly to Perplexity as a custom connector, sign in and ask. One connection covers 163 Mail and every other account you own. 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.
- Perplexity Pro, Max or Enterprise — custom connectors aren't on the free plan. On Enterprise, an admin allows custom connectors first.
Connect 163 Mail to Perplexity in three steps
1 Connect 163 Mail to Mailopoly
- Start a Mailopoly account at mailopoly.com/sign-up — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
- In 163 Mail on the web, open Settings → POP3/SMTP/IMAP and switch on the IMAP/SMTP service.
- Create an authorization code and complete the security check NetEase asks for. Copy the code.
- 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 ↗
2 Add Mailopoly to Perplexity
This part is the same whatever you connected in step 1.
Add Mailopoly to Perplexity
These steps are taken from public documentation, and we haven't yet checked each one in Perplexity ourselves. If a label doesn't match what you see, Perplexity's own help page, linked below, has the current wording.
- In Perplexity, open Account settings → Connectors.
- Choose + Custom connector at the top right, then Remote.
- Name it Mailopoly and enter
https://fastapi.prod.aws.mailopoly.com/mcp-server/as the MCP Server URL. For Authentication choose OAuth 2.0 — there's no client ID or secret to fill in, Mailopoly registers Perplexity itself — and for Transport choose Streamable HTTP. - Tick the box confirming you understand the risks of custom connectors, choose Add, then click the Mailopoly card to sign in.
- Sign in with your Mailopoly account, then choose what Perplexity is allowed to do. Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions.
- Back in Perplexity, ask.
Perplexity takes Mailopoly as a custom remote connector, so the only thing to paste is one address. Custom connectors are available on Perplexity Pro, Max and Enterprise; on Enterprise, an admin has to allow them for the organisation first.
3 Ask 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 server | imap.163.com |
|---|---|
| Port | 993 |
| Security | SSL/TLS |
| Username | Your full email address |
| Password | NetEase authorization code |
What Perplexity 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 Perplexity 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.
- No + Custom connector button in Perplexity: custom connectors need Perplexity Pro, Max or Enterprise. On Enterprise, ask your admin to allow custom connectors for the organisation.
- The Mailopoly card says it isn't connected: adding the connector doesn't sign you in. Click the Mailopoly card in Account settings → Connectors and finish the Mailopoly sign-in.
- Perplexity can't reach the server: check the address is exactly
https://fastapi.prod.aws.mailopoly.com/mcp-server/, Authentication is OAuth 2.0 and Transport is Streamable HTTP, then remove the connector and add it again.
Using Claude or ChatGPT instead? Connect 163 Mail to Claude and ChatGPT.
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