Agent email
Give an AI agent its own inbox and it can hold a real email conversation — answer a support request, follow up on a thread, confirm a booking, or reach a human when it's stuck. This section covers the ways to wire that up, and how it works the MailKite way, where email is a set of native tools your agent calls over MCP.
Start here
The short path from zero to an agent that sends and receives on MailKite.
Connect the MCP server, create an account, add a domain, and open an inbox.
Read guide Send & receive from your agentThe send tool, reading inbound, and replying in-thread — as MCP tool calls.
Read guide Build a support inbox agentTurn one address into an agent that answers mail and escalates the rest.
Read guideAgent-native email providers
Products built to give an agent (or a mailbox) an inbox. Each guide sets one up, then shows the same send-and-reply loop on MailKite.
Inbox API built for agents — create inboxes, send, and receive.
One API over a connected Gmail/Outlook mailbox via a grant.
Read and send from a real Gmail mailbox over OAuth.
Read and send from an Outlook / Microsoft 365 mailbox.
Give your agent email with an ESP
Already sending through an email provider? Wrap its send API and inbound webhook as tools your agent can call. Each guide shows how, then the same thing the MailKite way — and MailKite can route through these providers for you.
New to MailKite for agents? Start with Connect your agent, or grab the agent skill.