# Connect AOL Mail to Claude and ChatGPT

[Connectors](https://lumman.co/mcp) / [Multi Mail](https://lumman.co/mcp/multi-mail)

Multi Mail connects AOL mailboxes to Claude and ChatGPT with an app password, never your AOL password.

For aol.com and aim.com addresses, and other domains whose mail AOL Mail's own servers receive.

## The AI apps' own connectors

Multi Mail's other provider pages name what the AI apps' own connectors do for their providers: [Gmail](https://lumman.co/mcp/multi-mail/gmail), [Outlook and Hotmail](https://lumman.co/mcp/multi-mail/outlook), [Microsoft 365](https://lumman.co/mcp/multi-mail/microsoft-365), [iCloud](https://lumman.co/mcp/multi-mail/icloud), [Fastmail](https://lumman.co/mcp/multi-mail/fastmail), [Inkbox](https://lumman.co/mcp/multi-mail/inkbox).

## Connect it

AOL makes an app password only in a browser you have signed in to AOL Mail with for several days in a row - never in a private window.

1. Sign in to your AOL Account Security page at [login.aol.com](https://login.aol.com/myaccount/security).
2. Choose Generate app password or Generate and manage app passwords, then Get Started.
3. Enter Lumman as the app's name, choose Generate password and copy the one-time password. AOL shows it once - leave that page open until Lumman asks for it.

4. [Add to Claude](https://claude.ai/directory/connectors/multi-mail) - Opens claude.ai - press Connect there.
5. Sign in, add your AOL mailbox and approve Claude in the window Claude opens - choose Another mailbox, type the address and paste the app password when it asks.
6. Ask Claude about your mail

- [Claude](https://lumman.co/mcp/claude) - From Claude's connectors directory
- [ChatGPT](https://lumman.co/mcp/chatgpt) - As a custom MCP server
- [Claude Code](https://lumman.co/mcp/claude-code) - As a plugin, in two commands
- [Cursor](https://lumman.co/mcp/cursor) - In ~/.cursor/mcp.json

## Reach and limits

- Search and read it together with every other mailbox you add.
- Draft, reply, forward and send from it.
- Archive, bin and file its mail, and clean up its inbox by sender, putting back what a clean-up moved.
- Multi Mail reaches no filters or vacation responder at AOL.
- AOL's default view shows a mail app only each folder's newest messages. Multi Mail reads that view, and says which folder holds more.

## If it refuses

- AOL refused this password. Use an app password, not the password you sign in to AOL Mail with - made in a browser signed in to AOL Mail for several days, never a private window - and check the address.
- We could not reach AOL's mail server. Try again.

## Technical details

- Receiving: imap.aol.com, port 993
- Sending: smtp.aol.com, port 587
- Login: Your whole address and the app password
- Check: Both servers accept the password before the mailbox is added
- Stored: The app password, encrypted under a key held outside the database
- Mail: No copy kept - read from the mailbox on each call
- Removing it: Disconnecting deletes our copy of the password, which works until you delete it on your AOL Account Security page under Generate and manage app passwords.
- Offered: 29 of the 35 - no settings_filters_list, settings_filters_create, settings_filters_update, settings_filters_delete, settings_get_vacation or settings_update_vacation