Connect guide

Connect QQ Mail to Perplexity

Updated 1 November 2026

Yes — Perplexity can read, search and reply to your QQ Mail through Mailopoly. Connect QQ Mail to Mailopoly with a QQ authorization code, add Mailopoly to Perplexity as a custom connector, sign in and ask. One connection covers QQ Mail and every other account you own. QQ Mail requires a 16-character authorization code generated in QQ Mail settings; your QQ account password won't work in mail apps.

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This guide also covers exmail.qq.com (Tencent Exmail) and foxmail.com — the steps are the same.

Before you start

A Mailopoly account — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
QQ Mail requires a 16-character authorization code generated in QQ Mail settings; your QQ account 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 QQ Mail to Perplexity in three steps

1 Connect QQ Mail to Mailopoly

Start a Mailopoly account at mailopoly.com/sign-up — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
In QQ Mail on the web, open Settings → Account and switch on the IMAP/SMTP service. QQ asks for SMS verification.
Choose Generate authorization code and copy the 16-character code QQ shows you.
In Mailopoly choose Add email account, enter your full QQ address and paste the authorization code in the password field.

Provider help: QQ 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.

Adding custom remote connectors — Perplexity Help Center ↗

3 Ask about your QQ 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 QQ Mail Cleanbox today?
Find the order confirmation in my QQ Mail and tell me when it ships.
Reply to the last message from the supplier from my QQ address.

QQ 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.qq.com
Port	993
Security	SSL/TLS
Username	Your full email address
Password	QQ authorization code (16 characters)

What Perplexity can do with QQ Mail through Mailopoly

Search QQ 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 QQ 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 QQ 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 QQ 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 QQ Mail, and the fix

Your QQ password won't work. Only the authorization code is accepted by mail apps.
Changing your QQ password cancels every authorization code you've generated. Generate a new one and update it in Mailopoly.
The code is shown once. If you lose it, generate another.
Tencent Exmail (exmail.qq.com) business accounts connect the same way; your administrator may need to enable IMAP for the domain first.
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.