Email Read

Email Read skill connects your Claude agent to any IMAP-compatible inbox, enabling programmatic email retrieval, search, and analysis. Configure with your IMAP server details and credentials, and your agent can fetch recent messages, search by sender, subject, date range, or body keywords, and read full email content including attachments.

The skill handles the complexity of IMAP — folder traversal, message threading, MIME parsing for HTML and plain-text bodies, and base64-decoded attachment extraction. You can target specific folders (INBOX, Sent, custom labels in Gmail) and define search queries using IMAP search syntax or plain English which the skill translates automatically.

Powerful use cases: have your agent scan your inbox each morning and surface only emails requiring a response, extract invoice amounts from vendor emails and log them to a spreadsheet, parse order confirmation emails to build a purchase history, or monitor for emails from specific domains for CRM updating. When combined with Email Send, you get a full email automation loop — read incoming messages, process them with AI, send replies or notifications automatically. Gmail users should use App Passwords rather than their main Google password for security. The skill never stores email content beyond the current session, and all IMAP communication uses TLS encryption.

Installation

clawhub install email-read

Install: clawhub install email-read