The email inbox built for AI agents.The email inbox built for AI agents.
An address of its own, so your agent can sign up for services, talk to people and institutions, and read email the way you do.
Works where you work.
Designed for agents
from the ground up.
Email APIs were built to blast. OpenMail is built for the reply.
Instant Replies
Replies reach your agent over a webhook or WebSocket. Nothing polls.
Sender rules
Allow or block by address or domain, per account or per inbox. Noise never reaches your handler.
One inbox per agent
Each agent gets its own address, not a shared inbox or a forwarding rule.
LLM-ready attachments
PDFs, CSVs and images arrive as plain text, ready for a prompt. Your agent never sees a MIME type.
Pick how your agent handles email.
Set a mode when you add the OpenClaw channel with --mode. Switch anytime in channels.openmail.mode.
On demand
Sends and reads email only when you ask.
Alert on arrival
Pings you on new mail. You decide what happens.
Fully autonomous
Answers incoming mail on its own. No human in the loop.
Works with the agents you already use.
One command gives OpenClaw, Hermes or Claude Code an inbox. Or hit the REST API directly and take replies over WebSocket.
Read the Docs# Install the OpenMail channel plugin
openclaw plugins install clawhub:@openmail/openclaw
# Add the channel with a key from console.openmail.sh
# → picks or creates your inbox, stores an inbox-scoped key
openclaw channels add --channel openmail --api-key om_xxx --mailbox-name support
openclaw gateway restart
# Mail from people wakes the agent; it replies in-thread.
# --mode notify: agent tells you about new mail instead
# --mode tool: agent uses email only when asked
# The OpenMail CLI runs inside the gateway
openclaw openmail -- threads list --is-read false --jsonWhat your agents can do with inboxes.
Every agent is a potential inbox.
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@openmail/openclaw plugin and run openclaw channels add --channel openmail --api-key <key>. For Hermes, run hermes plugins install openmail --enable then hermes openmail setup. For other agents, install the CLI with npm install -g @openmail/cli and run openmail init to create your first inbox. See the quickstart for details.npm install -g @openmail/cli, run openmail init, and your agent has an inbox in under a minute. Or call POST /v1/inboxes and get a live address back.Writing
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Every AI agent deserves its own inbox.
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