Connect guide

Connect Zoho Mail to Claude and ChatGPT

Updated 16 September 2026

Yes — Claude and ChatGPT can both read, search and reply to your Zoho Mail through Mailopoly, which is listed in the Claude Connectors Directory and is an approved app in the ChatGPT app directory. Connect Zoho Mail to Mailopoly over IMAP, with an application-specific password if you use two-factor authentication, add Mailopoly in Claude or ChatGPT, and ask. The whole setup takes about a minute. IMAP has to be enabled in Zoho Mail settings first, and if two-factor authentication or SAML is on, you need an application-specific password instead of your normal password.

This guide also covers zohomail.com and organisation domains hosted on Zoho Mail — the steps are the same.

Before you start

A Mailopoly account — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
IMAP has to be enabled in Zoho Mail settings first, and if two-factor authentication or SAML is on, you need an application-specific password instead of your normal password.
Claude on any plan, including Free, or ChatGPT with apps enabled.

Connect Zoho Mail to Claude or ChatGPT in three steps

1Connect Zoho Mail to Mailopoly

Start a Mailopoly account at mailopoly.com/sign-up — 7-day free trial, no credit card.
In Zoho Mail, open Settings → Mail Accounts and turn on IMAP Access. Zoho's IMAP access help has the current steps.
If two-factor authentication (or SAML sign-in) is enabled on your account, generate an application-specific password in Zoho Accounts and use that. Otherwise your normal Zoho password works.
In Mailopoly choose Add email account, enter your Zoho address and the password. Mailopoly fills in the server settings; for an organisation domain on Zoho it uses the imappro server.

Provider help: Zoho help: IMAP access ↗

2Add Mailopoly to Claude or ChatGPT

This part is the same whatever you connected in step 1. Mailopoly is listed in both directories, so it's a search and a tap — no endpoint URL to paste.

Claude

Open Settings → Connectors on claude.ai or in the Claude app — or choose Add connectors from the + menu in any chat.
Search the directory for Mailopoly and choose Connect.
Sign in with your Mailopoly account when prompted, then choose what Claude is allowed to do. Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions.
Back in the chat, make sure the Mailopoly connector is switched on, then ask.

One listing covers Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude mobile, Claude Code and Cowork, and it works on every Claude plan, including Free. In Claude Code you can also run claude mcp add --transport http mailopoly https://fastapi.prod.aws.mailopoly.com/mcp-server/ and then /mcp to sign in.

Mailopoly in the Claude Connectors Directory ↗

ChatGPT

Open the Apps directory in ChatGPT — from the + menu in any chat, or Settings → Apps & Connectors.
Search for Mailopoly and choose Connect.
Sign in with your Mailopoly account when prompted, then choose what ChatGPT is allowed to do. Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions.
In any chat, type @Mailopoly and ask.

Mailopoly is an approved app in the ChatGPT app directory, so there's no developer mode and no endpoint URL to paste. Once connected it's available in every ChatGPT conversation on the web and in the mobile apps.

Mailopoly in the ChatGPT app directory ↗

Using something else? Claude Code, Cowork, Codex and any client that supports remote MCP servers connect the same way — the Mailopoly MCP page has the endpoint and per-client steps.

3Ask about your Zoho Mail

Whatever you've connected to Mailopoly is what your assistant can reach. Some things people ask on day one:

What came into my Zoho work inbox from clients today?
Find the signed contract in my Zoho mail and save it to PolyBox.
Draft a reply to the supplier's quote from my Zoho address.

Zoho 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.zoho.com Organisation domains: imappro.zoho.com EU data centre organisations: imappro.zoho.eu
Port	993
Security	SSL/TLS
Username	Your full email address
Password	Normal Zoho password, or an application-specific password if two-factor or SAML is on

What Claude and ChatGPT can do with Zoho Mail through Mailopoly

Search Zoho 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 Zoho 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 Zoho 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 Zoho 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 an assistant at any time from Settings → Security in the Mailopoly app. More on the security page.

What goes wrong with Zoho Mail, and the fix

IMAP is off by default. Until you enable it under Settings → Mail Accounts, every mail app is refused, whatever password you use.
Two-factor changes the password you need. With two-factor or SAML on, your normal password is rejected — generate an application-specific password.
Organisation accounts use a different server (imappro.zoho.com, or imappro.zoho.eu for EU-hosted organisations). Mailopoly picks the right one from your domain; check it if a connection fails.

Start a free trial

7-day free trial, no credit card. Connect Zoho Mail in about a minute.

Frequently asked questions

Does Claude or ChatGPT see my Zoho password?

Can I connect more than one account?

Does it work in Claude Desktop, Claude mobile and Claude Code?

Is there a free trial?

How does Mailopoly keep the connection safe?

Claude and ChatGPT connect to Mailopoly through OAuth 2.1 — a revocable, scoped sign-in, never a password. Reading, making changes and sending are separate permissions, every tool call is audit-logged against your account, and you can revoke any assistant from Settings → Security → Connected AI assistants in the app. Mailopoly is independently security-assessed to CASA Tier 2 by TAC Security.