Connect AOL Mail to your AI agents
AOL inboxes are still everywhere and supported almost nowhere. Emailgents connects AOL over IMAP with one app password.
- @aol.com addresses
- Long-running family and business AOL accounts
- host
- imap.aol.com
- port
- 993 (TLS)
- auth
- app password
- create at
- login.aol.com/account/security
No assistant and no agent platform offers an AOL connector, which leaves decades of correspondence out of reach for people who still use it.
Emailgents connects AOL over IMAP with an app password from AOL Account Security, indexes recent mail and exposes it to every agent through the same connection as your other mailboxes.
How to connect AOL
Nothing is stored until the connection test passes.
- 01Generate an AOL app passwordOpen AOL Account Security, choose Generate app password, name it Emailgents and copy the password shown.
- 02Add AOL in EmailgentsIn Mailboxes choose AOL Mail, enter your full AOL address and paste the app password.
- 03Let the index buildThe last 90 days are indexed and kept fresh every few minutes.
- 04Add the connector to your agentPaste https://emailgents.com/mcp into your agent and sign in once.
https://emailgents.com/mcpWhat agents get
- All folders including Inbox, Sent, Spam and Trash.
- Incremental IMAP sync.
- The same read-only tools and access log as every other provider.
Limits and prerequisites
- AOL only issues app passwords when two-step verification is enabled on the account.
Use it from your agent
Once AOL is connected, add Emailgents to the agent you use.
- ClaudeClaude's built-in Gmail connector handles one Google account. Add Emailgents once and Claude reads all of your mailboxes, iCloud and IMAP included.2 min
- Claude CodeOne command in the terminal. Claude Code can then pull the bug report from your work mail, the invoice from iCloud and the Stripe receipt from Gmail without leaving the session.1 min
- ChatGPTChatGPT's built-in apps cover Gmail and Outlook. With Emailgents as a connector it also reads iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail and your second Gmail, through one sign-in.3 min
- CursorBug reports, customer threads and vendor receipts live in email. Add one entry to mcp.json and Cursor's agent can read them without you copying and pasting.2 min
- CodexCodex CLI, the IDE extension and the ChatGPT desktop app share one MCP configuration. Add Emailgents once and all of them can read your mail.2 min
- Gemini CLIGemini in Gmail reads one Google account. Gemini CLI with Emailgents reads every inbox you own, from the terminal.2 min
AOL questions
Is it safe to give an AI agent access to my AOL mail?
Emailgents only exposes read tools (search, open, thread, attachment) plus one flag tool for read/unread and starred. There is no send, reply, forward, move or delete, so a prompt hidden in an email cannot make your agent act on your behalf. Credentials are encrypted at rest, every agent call is written to your Activity page, and you can revoke a mailbox or a key in one click.
How do I revoke access?
Remove the mailbox in Emailgents or delete the app password in AOL Account Security.
What exactly does Emailgents store from AOL?
A structured index of recent mail: sender, recipients, subject, date, folder, flags, thread references, attachment names and a short cleaned snippet. The default window is 90 days per mailbox and you can change it. Full bodies are fetched from AOL on demand and only cached, encrypted, if you turn body caching on for that mailbox.
Which agents can read my AOL inbox through Emailgents?
Any MCP client: Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, VS Code and any other MCP client, or your own scripts over REST. You add one URL, https://emailgents.com/mcp, sign in once, and every mailbox you have connected appears to that agent.
