Zoho Mail MCP connector
The Zoho Mail connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent search, read, and organize a person's Zoho Mail inbox, folders, attachments, and account settings, with every action recorded under that person's own name.
- Connects over OAuth
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
Claude
Elaichi connected
Summarize unread emails in the Support folder from yesterday.
Working in Zoho Mail with Elaichi
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List all Zoho Mail emails search
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List all Zoho Mail accounts
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Get single Zoho Mail account by ID
Governance
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Audit log
Last 24 hours
Get single Zoho Mail account by ID
Emily Carter · Claude · 9:41 AM
Done
List all Zoho Mail accounts
Emily Carter · Claude · 9:41 AM
Done
List all Zoho Mail emails search
Emily Carter · Claude · 9:41 AM
Done
Zoho Mail accounts update display name
Megan Brooks · 
ChatGPT · 9:38 AM
Done
List all Zoho Mail organizations
Ryan Hayes · 
Cursor · 9:35 AM
Done
How to connect Zoho Mail to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Zoho Mail MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Zoho Mail MCP connector for Claude Code
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In a terminal, run
claude mcp addwith the endpoint.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Start Claude Code and run
/mcp. -
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Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.
Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.
Zoho Mail MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Zoho Mail MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Zoho Mail MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot
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In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
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Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
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Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.
- Server URL
- https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Type
- Dynamic discovery
Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.
Connect Zoho Mail to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
What teams do with Zoho Mail through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Zoho Mail is logged.
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Sales
Catch up on a customer thread before a call
Ask for every message exchanged with a prospect in the last month and get a summary of where the conversation stands. Attachments like proposals and signed quotes are pulled into the same view.
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Support
Find every email about one customer issue
Search the shared support mailbox for a customer's address or a ticket number and read the full history in one place. Screenshots and log files sent by the customer can be downloaded without hunting through the inbox.
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Office
Sort a crowded inbox into folders
Create folders for projects or vendors, move messages into them, and remove folders that are no longer needed. The inbox gets tidy without anyone dragging emails one at a time.
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Finance
Pull invoices out of the mailbox at month end
Search for invoices and receipts received from suppliers in a given period and download the attached PDFs. Nothing gets missed because it landed in the wrong folder.
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IT
Check mailbox storage across the organization
See how much storage each Zoho Mail account is using, spot the accounts close to their limit, and adjust storage allocations before anyone stops receiving mail.
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IT
Review who can sign in and from where
List the IP addresses allowed to reach the organization's Zoho Mail, add an office address, or remove one that no longer belongs. Account display names and subscription details can be checked in the same conversation.
Try asking
- “Summarize unread emails in the Support folder from yesterday.”
- “List Zoho Mail folders holding more than 500 emails.”
- “Find emails from Acme across all Zoho Mail accounts.”
What connecting Zoho Mail gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Zoho Mail account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Summarize unread emails in the Support folder from yesterday.
List Zoho Mail folders holding more than 500 emails.
Find emails from Acme across all Zoho Mail accounts.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about emails, read answers from Zoho Mail.
Plain language questions return live emails, folders and accounts, no query syntax.
ElaichiAI appsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot share one endpoint.
Every client reaches Zoho Mail over OAuth, with no SDK or shared key.
ElaichiToolsTool catalog
160 Zoho Mail tools are ready to call.
Emails, folders, accounts and organizations are covered without custom code.
ElaichiToolboxesToolboxes
Each team gets its own Zoho Mail toolbox.
Support, Sales and Legal see the curated set of tools they need.
ElaichiConnectionsShared connections
Teammates send mail without seeing a password.
Each Zoho Mail connection shows its owner and the teams and members sharing it.
ElaichiAudit logAudit log
Every Zoho Mail call is on the record.
When, who, what happened, type and resource for each email and folder action.
From answering questions to doing the work
A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.
Zoho Mail digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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✓
Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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✓
Fetch emails
Zoho Mail
1.4s -
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Zoho Mail
Queued
Automations
A schedule drafts the digest, a person approves.
Zoho Mail emails are fetched, grouped, drafted by an agent, approved, then posted back.
Zoho Mail health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the emails collection
Emails
1,284 ↓ 12%
Folders
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Emails created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Support EMEA 34%
Sales US 27%
Finance 21%
Recruiting 18%
Collections and dashboards
Zoho Mail inbox health, counted on a schedule.
Four metrics, fourteen days of emails created and a per team breakdown, no model.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Zoho Mail
All three can connect Zoho Mail to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over Zoho Mail tools | Allow or restrict single Zoho Mail tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per Zoho Mail call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
Zoho Mail tools for your AI agents
160 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Zoho Mail, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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Questions, answered
How do I connect Zoho Mail to Claude?
Connect Zoho Mail in Elaichi first: you are sent to Zoho's own sign-in page, you sign in with your Zoho Mail account and approve access, and the connection is ready. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp as the endpoint. Claude will ask you to sign in to Elaichi once, and from then on it can work in your Zoho Mail.
Does Zoho Mail work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Zoho Mail is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, any other MCP client, and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Zoho Mail once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Zoho Mail data?
An agent can search your Zoho Mail for messages from a person or about a topic, read a thread and summarize it, list and download attachments, and create, move, or delete folders to keep the inbox organized. Administrators can also review account storage, allowed IP addresses, display names, and subscription details across the organization. Because Zoho Mail exposes a large number of actions, the agent looks up the right one for each request, so short concrete asks like "find last week's emails from Acme with attachments" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Zoho Mail give the AI access to every mailbox in the organization?
No. Access follows the person who signed in to Zoho Mail, so the AI sees the mailboxes, folders, and organization settings that person can already see and nothing more. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example limiting a team to reading and searching, but it can never widen what Zoho Mail itself allows.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Zoho Mail?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow searching and reading Zoho Mail while restricting folder deletion, storage changes, or edits to allowed IP addresses. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, or any other client cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.
What happens to a Zoho Mail connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Zoho Mail through every connected client at once. A shared Zoho Mail connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you want to remove Zoho Mail entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and every other client together.
Does the Zoho Mail MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Zoho Mail is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Zoho Mail?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Zoho Mail. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Zoho Mail call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Zoho Mail?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Zoho Mail: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Zoho Mail in front of your team
14 days of Black, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.
Add one link to your AI app
The same link for everyone on your team.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Cursor
- Microsoft Copilot