Connect Yahoo Mail to your AI agents
No assistant ships a Yahoo connector. Emailgents connects Yahoo over IMAP with a single app password and puts it next to your other inboxes.
- @yahoo.com and country domains such as @yahoo.co.uk, @yahoo.de and @yahoo.fr
- @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com
- Yahoo Mail Plus and legacy accounts
- host
- imap.mail.yahoo.com
- port
- 993 (TLS)
- auth
- app password
- create at
- login.yahoo.com/account/security
Yahoo still hosts a huge number of personal and small-business inboxes, and almost none of the agent tooling supports it: Claude, ChatGPT and the big integration platforms stop at Gmail and Outlook.
Emailgents connects Yahoo over IMAP with an app password you generate in Yahoo Account Security, indexes recent mail, and exposes it to every agent through the same connection as everything else.
How to connect Yahoo
Nothing is stored until the connection test passes.
- 01Generate a Yahoo app passwordOpen Yahoo Account Security, choose Generate app password, pick Other app, name it Emailgents and copy the password Yahoo shows.
- 02Add Yahoo in EmailgentsIn Mailboxes choose Yahoo Mail, enter your full Yahoo address and paste the app password. The connection is tested at once.
- 03Let the index buildThe last 90 days are indexed and refreshed 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
- Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Archive, Spam, Trash and every custom folder.
- Incremental IMAP sync so new mail shows up within minutes.
- The same read-only tool set and the same access log as every other provider.
Limits and prerequisites
- Yahoo only issues app passwords for accounts with two-step verification or Yahoo's account key enabled.
- Yahoo Mail features such as views and subscriptions summaries are not part of IMAP and are not visible to agents.
Use it from your agent
Once Yahoo 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
Yahoo questions
Why an app password instead of my normal Yahoo password?
Yahoo requires app passwords for third-party mail apps and lets you revoke each one independently, which is safer for you and the only method we support.
Is it safe to give an AI agent access to my Yahoo 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 Yahoo Account Security. Either stops access immediately.
What exactly does Emailgents store from Yahoo?
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 Yahoo on demand and only cached, encrypted, if you turn body caching on for that mailbox.
Which agents can read my Yahoo 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.
