Free IMAP settings: connect your Free mailbox to Claude and ChatGPT

To read and draft your Free mail in Claude or ChatGPT, connect the mailbox to Fezola with Free's IMAP settings, then add Fezola to your assistant. The settings below come from Free's official support page, read on 14 November 2026: Free can change them, so check the page before relying on them.

Free's settings

• Username: your full address, domain included, for example name@free.fr.
• Password: that email account's password.
• SMTP authentication: to be enabled on the outgoing server, according to Free.

Free also describes port 143 for IMAP and POP, but IMAP on 993 is the recommended route: use it.

Setup in four steps

1. Add the mailbox in Fezola. In Sources, add a mailbox, choose Other and enter your address, the server imap.free.fr (port 993), the server smtp.free.fr (port 587, or 465) and the account password.
2. Test the connection: Fezola checks receiving and sending. If sending fails on 587, try 465.
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 Free mailbox?"

What you can ask

• "Which unread emails did I get this week in my Free mailbox?"
• "Find my order confirmation email, in all my mailboxes."
• "Draft a reply to my landlord's last email."

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

• Sending refused: check that SMTP authentication is enabled and that the username is the full address, as Free states.
• Wrong port: keep 993 for IMAP; for sending, try 587 then 465.

For other providers, see Orange, OVH, connect a custom domain email and the IMAP connector page. Several mailboxes? See search all your inboxes with Claude.