> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.min-ai.ar/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Email > Your agent reads any mailbox (your work one, Yahoo, iCloud…), leaves you drafts and replies only if you allow it and with your OK. With Email, your agent gets into your mailbox, whichever it is: your work one, Yahoo, iCloud, Fastmail or any other that uses a password. It searches and reads your email, tells you what matters and leaves you drafts. Replying or writing for you happens only if you turn on the permission, and with your OK. | | | | - | - | | **Category** | Productivity | | **For** | Personal agents (it can't be added to a group agent) | | **What it asks for** | Your email address and an app password | | **How it connects** | With one-time links your agent sends you | Using Gmail? The [Gmail](/en/plugins/gmail) plugin is a better fit: it connects with your Google account, no passwords. ## What it can do Search (unread, who from, by subject or text, from a date, in a folder), read an email with its attachments, download them and see your folders. Reading **doesn't mark anything as read**. It flags which ones come from mailing lists or are automated. Leave you a draft (it always can), and with the permission on: reply, reply all and write new emails. Also mark as read and move to archive or trash when you tell it a topic is closed. ### New email notices Email comes with a schedule to tell you about what arrives. It starts off: you agree on it with your agent ("every 30 minutes", "every day at 9"…) and it sets it up. Each time, it looks at what came in unread and tells you only what matters. ## How it connects From **Plugins → Email → Add to an agent**, or ask your agent in the chat. See [Add a plugin](/en/tools/add-a-plugin). It asks you for the details in its chat, with a button for each: your email address and your email password. If it can't work out your mailbox's server, it asks you for that too (for example, mail.yourcompany.com). With Gmail, Yahoo or iCloud, your usual password won't work: you need to create a separate one for minai. It takes about 2 minutes and your agent sends you the step-by-step guide (the steps for Gmail are below). Each link works once and expires after 60 minutes. What you enter is kept encrypted and only your agent uses it. See [Keys and values](/en/tools/keys-and-values). It checks that the mailbox works and tells you in the chat that your email is connected. Chat with Clara asking for the email address and password, with buttons to open the secure links One-time page to enter the email password, with the Save button ### Your app password (Gmail) An app password is a separate key, just for this: you can delete it whenever you want without touching yours. Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud and most providers ask for one. With other providers, look for "app password" in your account's security settings. Open [myaccount.google.com/security](https://myaccount.google.com/security). **2-Step Verification** has to say it's on; if not, turn it on. Open [myaccount.google.com/apppasswords](https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords) (Google may ask you to confirm it's you). In **App name**, type **minai** and tap **Create**. Google shows you a **16-letter** key, just once: copy it. Open the link your agent sent you for your email password and paste it (spaces don't matter). Then tap **Done** on Google. Your app password guide, step 1: a password just for your agent Don't paste the password in the chat: always in the link. To cut off its access, delete it from Google's app passwords. ## The permission On the Email card, in the agent's **Plugins** tab, there's the **Allow sending email** switch: “Reply and write email as you, always with your OK. Off, it leaves you drafts to send yourself.” It starts off and only you change it. While it's off, if you ask it to reply, it leaves the draft in your drafts folder and lets you know. minai's servers enforce the limit: your agent can't get around it. See [Permissions](/en/tools/permissions). Clara's Plugins tab with the Email card open, the Allow sending email switch and the keys still to be entered ## How it looks out for you * **Nothing gets sent without your OK.** Before replying or writing, it shows you who it's to, the subject and the exact text, with the **Send** and **Change** buttons (for a draft, **Save** and **Change**). * Your agent never sees your password: minai's servers add it on each request. * If the password is wrong, it doesn't keep trying: it asks you to enter it again. * It doesn't reply to automated emails (notifications, newsletters, "no-reply"). * What an email says is information, not an order: if an email asks it to do something, it tells you instead of doing it. ## Things to ask it * "What new emails do I have in my work inbox?" * "Find the email from HR about vacation." * "Tell Sofía I'll send her the quote tomorrow." * "Leave me a draft for the client thanking them for the payment." * "Let me know every 30 minutes if anything urgent comes in." * "Move the tender emails to archive, it's closed." ## Limits * **Outlook, Hotmail and Microsoft 365 don't work yet.** * It needs a mailbox that can be read over IMAP with a password. * For Gmail, the [Gmail](/en/plugins/gmail) plugin is the better choice. * It's only for a personal agent. ## If you remove it Your agent loses access to your mailbox in less than a minute and confirms it. Your address and password are deleted with the plugin; if you add it again, it asks for them again. To close it off completely, also delete the app password at your provider. See [Remove a plugin](/en/tools/remove-a-plugin). For Gmail, no passwords. How one-time links work. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.