Zoho Mail MCP connector
The Zoho Mail connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, 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.
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How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
160 tools
How to connect
How to connect Zoho Mail to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Zoho Mail once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Zoho Mail.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Approve it in Zoho Mail. Zoho Mail's own window opens. Whoever approves it decides what this connection can reach.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
Zoho Mail
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Connect Zoho Mail to 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.
Connect Zoho Mail to ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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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 today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Connect Zoho Mail to 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.
Connect Zoho Mail to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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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.
Use cases
What teams do with Zoho Mail through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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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.”
AI tools
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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What connecting Zoho Mail gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Zoho Mail account.
The agent
Ask about emails, read answers from Zoho Mail.
Plain language questions return live emails, folders and accounts, no query syntax.
- emails
- folders
- accounts
- organizations
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 or Cursor
MCP clients
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor share one endpoint.
Every client reaches Zoho Mail over OAuth, with no SDK or shared key.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
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Tool catalog
160 Zoho Mail tools are ready to call.
Emails, folders, accounts and organizations are covered without custom code.
- List all Zoho Mail emails search
- List all Zoho Mail accounts
- Get single Zoho Mail account by ID
- Zoho Mail accounts update display name
ElaichiToolsToolboxes
Each team gets its own Zoho Mail toolbox.
Support, Sales and Legal see the curated set of tools they need.
- Support
- Sales
- Finance
- IT Admin
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Teammates send mail without seeing a password.
Each Zoho Mail connection shows its owner and the teams and members sharing it.
- Support EMEA
- Sales US
- Finance
- Recruiting
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every Zoho Mail call is on the record.
When, who, what happened, type and resource for each email and folder action.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
ElaichiAudit logLaunching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
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 digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch emails
Zoho Mail
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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 Michael Brennan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Zoho Mail
Queued
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.
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%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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, 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 blocking folder deletion, storage changes, or edits to allowed IP addresses. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other client at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
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, and every other client together.
Put Zoho Mail in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.