# How to give Claude its own email address You can give Claude its own email address, such as `ada@botmail.pro`, by adding Botmail as a custom connector. Paste `https://botmail.pro/mcp` under **Customize > Connectors**, sign in, and Claude can check its inbox, search, draft, send and reply from claude.ai, Claude Desktop and the Claude mobile apps. Custom connectors work on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans; the Free plan allows one. ## Why Claude should have its own address Connecting your personal inbox gives Claude years of your mail and the power to write as you. A Botmail address gives it a separate identity with only its own mail in it. That's useful when you want Claude to: - **Run an errand by email.** Ask three venues for a quote, then have Claude compare the replies when they come back, in threads it can follow. - **Sign up for things you approve.** Newsletters, trial accounts and waitlists go to Claude's address, and it can [read the confirmation code](https://botmail.pro/guides/ai-agent-verification-emails) itself. - **Keep a project's mail together.** Give a research project its own address and ask Claude for a summary of everything that arrived this week. - **Share one inbox across agents.** The same mailbox works in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor through the [MCP server](https://botmail.pro/guides/email-mcp-server). ## Step 1: Claim a mailbox The connector works with mailboxes you already have. To get one, an agent solves a small proof-of-work challenge and calls Botmail's API, which needs code execution and web access. Claude's chat sandbox only reaches an approved list of package and GitHub domains by default, so paste this prompt into a coding agent such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor: ```text Read https://botmail.pro/skill.md and claim a mailbox for yourself. Send the invite to my email, then wait for me to approve it. ``` The agent picks a name and Botmail emails you an approval link. Open it, sign in with GitHub or Google, and accept. Unapproved mailboxes are deleted after 24 hours. If you already have a mailbox, skip this step. ## Step 2: Add the connector ### Free, Pro and Max plans 1. Open [Customize > Connectors](https://claude.ai/customize/connectors) on claude.ai. 2. Click **+ Add**, then **Add custom connector**. 3. Enter the name `Botmail` and the URL `https://botmail.pro/mcp`. Click **Continue**. 4. Keep the authentication settings Claude detects. Under **OAuth client**, keep **Use Claude's published identity (Recommended)**. Botmail supports it, and **Register automatically** works too. You don't need request headers or a client ID. 5. Click **Add**, then **Connect**. ### Team and Enterprise plans An Owner adds the connector once in **Organization settings > Connectors**: **Add**, then **Custom**, then **Web**, with the same URL. Each member then opens **Customize > Connectors**, finds Botmail with the **Custom** label and clicks **Connect**. Every member signs in to their own Botmail account, so nobody shares a mailbox unless they choose to. Claude reaches Botmail from Anthropic's cloud, not from your device, on every Claude client, including Claude Desktop and the mobile apps. ## Step 3: Approve access Clicking **Connect** opens a Botmail page. Sign in with GitHub or Google, then choose: - **Permissions.** Read mail, Send mail, and Manage. Claude only gets the tools you grant: with Read alone, it can't see `send_email`, `reply` or `forward` at all. Manage is only needed to change the sender name. - **Mailboxes.** All of them, or only the ones Claude should use. Press **Allow**. To use it in a chat, click **+** in the lower left of the message box, open **Connectors**, and turn Botmail on for that conversation. ## Things to ask Claude Once Botmail is on, try: ```text Check my Botmail inbox and summarize anything unread, newest first. ``` ```text Draft an email from my Botmail address to sam@northwind.co asking for a quote on 200 printed mugs, delivered by March 3. Don't send it. Give me the review link. ``` ```text Search my Botmail mail for anything from Northwind and tell me where the quote stands. ``` For a first email to someone new, ask for a draft. Botmail returns a review link that shows the email with Send and Discard buttons, so you read it before it goes out. ## Things to know - **Approve sends yourself.** Claude asks before using connector tools. Only choose "Allow always" for reading tools like `check_inbox` and `search_mail`, and keep approving sends one by one. - **Turn off sending before Research.** In Research, Claude can call connector tools without asking each time. Anthropic suggests disabling tools that take write actions first: switch off `send_email`, `reply` and `forward` in the tools menu for that chat. - **Claude can't watch the inbox for you.** It acts only while it's answering. `wait_for_mail` waits up to 30 seconds per call, so for a reply that takes hours, come back later and ask "Did Northwind reply?" - **No mailboxes on the consent page?** The claim from Step 1 isn't approved yet. Open the approval email first, then click **Connect** again. - **Changing settings.** Claude doesn't edit custom connectors in place. Remove the connector and add it again. - **Revoking access.** Disconnect Botmail in Claude's connector settings, or revoke Claude's access from Botmail. Your mailbox and its mail stay put. Mail to people Claude hasn't emailed before is checked for spam and phishing before delivery, and new accounts can email 25 new recipients a day. See [how Botmail works](https://botmail.pro/ai-agent-email) for the rest. ## Questions ### Can Claude send and receive email? Yes. Add Botmail as a custom connector with the URL https://botmail.pro/mcp and Claude can check an inbox, search, draft, send and reply from its own address on botmail.pro. ### Do custom connectors work on the Claude Free plan? Yes. Custom connectors using remote MCP are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans. Free users can add one custom connector. ### Can I stop Claude from sending email? Yes. When you approve access on Botmail, grant only the Read permission. Claude then never sees the send, reply or forward tools. ### Does the Botmail connector work in the Claude mobile app? Yes. Claude connects to custom connectors from Anthropic's cloud on every Claude client, including Claude Desktop and the mobile apps. --- Source: https://botmail.pro/guides/claude-email Agent instructions: https://botmail.pro/skill.md All guides: https://botmail.pro/llms.txt