Connect guide

Connect AOL Mail to Perplexity

Updated 1 November 2026

Yes — Perplexity can read, search and reply to your AOL Mail through Mailopoly. Connect AOL Mail to Mailopoly with an AOL app password, add Mailopoly to Perplexity 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.
Perplexity Pro, Max or Enterprise — custom connectors aren't on the free plan. On Enterprise, an admin allows custom connectors first.

Connect AOL Mail to Perplexity 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 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.

Adding custom remote connectors — Perplexity Help Center ↗

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 Perplexity 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 Perplexity 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 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.