AOL IMAP settings: connect your AOL Mail to Claude and ChatGPT

To read and draft your AOL mail in Claude or ChatGPT, connect the mailbox to Fezola with AOL's IMAP settings, then add Fezola to your assistant. The settings below come from AOL's official help page, read on 14 November 2026: AOL can change them, so check the page before relying on them. If you read a different IMAP port elsewhere, such as 143, trust AOL's own page.

AOL's settings

• Username: your full AOL address, ending in @aol.com.
• Encryption: SSL on for incoming and outgoing mail.

AOL also lists POP (pop.aol.com, port 995, SSL). Prefer IMAP.

Setup in four steps

1. Add the mailbox in Fezola. Fezola has no AOL preset: in Sources, add a mailbox, choose Other (custom IMAP) and enter your address, the server imap.aol.com (port 993), the server smtp.aol.com (port 465) and your account password.
2. Test the connection: Fezola checks receiving and sending. If it fails, check AOL's page for the current sign-in requirements for third-party apps.
3. Add Fezola to Claude with https://api.fezola.com/mcp: see how to add a custom connector to Claude. For ChatGPT, see how to add an MCP server to ChatGPT.
4. Ask a question: "What needs an answer in my AOL mailbox?"

What you can ask

• "Which unread emails did I get this week in my AOL mailbox?"
• "Find the email with my tax documents, in all my mailboxes."
• "Draft a reply to the last email from my bank."

What the assistant does not do

Fezola saves replies as drafts in the mailbox that received the message, and you send them yourself. Direct sending is off until you switch it on, mailbox by mailbox.

Common errors

• Connection refused: check the server names and port 993 with SSL, and that the username is the full address.
• Wrong port: do not use 143: AOL's own page lists 993.

For other providers, see Orange, Hostinger, OVH and the IMAP connector page. Several mailboxes? See search all your inboxes with Claude.