Email Inbox for ChatGPT Dots: Documents and Sign-In Emails

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A dot is an always-on ChatGPT agent with its own cloud computer and browser (OpenAI: Meet dots). OpenAI’s guides give a dot no email address of its own. A dot reads email through plugins, for example Gmail. This guide shows two ways to give a dot an inbox for documents, receipts and sign-in emails, and other ways to give it documents. For most people, we recommend the first way with a separate Gmail account: it is free, and your personal email stays out of reach of the dot. Email inboxes for AI agents and people lists other services, with prices.

OpenAI offers dots to eligible Pro and Business Premium accounts, and to eligible Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare workspaces, in a gradual rollout. Pro access is for adults outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.

Connect Gmail to your dot

A dot uses the supported plugins that you install and turn on for your account (OpenAI: Connect computers and apps).

  1. In ChatGPT on the web or in the desktop app, open the Plugins tab.
  2. Search for Gmail and open its details.
  3. Select the plus button to install the plugin.
  4. When ChatGPT asks, connect your Google account.
  5. In your dot’s conversation, ask: “Find the newest email with a PDF attachment and summarize the attachment.”

Your ChatGPT app permissions also apply to the dot. For example, you can let the dot read email but not send it.

If the dot must not read your main mailbox, create a separate Google account for documents and sign-in emails, and connect that account. Then forward only the mail that the dot needs from your main Gmail account with a filter (Gmail Help: Automatically forward Gmail messages):

  1. In Gmail on a computer, open Settings > See all settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
  2. Click Add a forwarding address and type the address of the separate account.
  3. Open the verification email in the separate account and click the link.
  4. In the Gmail search box, open the search options and type the sender, for example quotes@supplier.com.
  5. Click Create filter, select Forward it and choose the separate address. Then click Create filter again.

Give your dot its own AgentMail inbox

AgentMail is an email service for AI agents. It has a plugin in ChatGPT, so a dot can create and read AgentMail inboxes (AgentMail: MCP).

  1. Open ChatGPT Plugins and search for AgentMail.
  2. Select Install plugin.
  3. When the browser window opens, sign in at console.agentmail.to.
  4. In your dot’s conversation, ask: “Create an AgentMail inbox called acme-docs.”
  5. From another email account, send an email with a PDF to the new address, for example acme-docs@agentmail.to.
  6. Ask the dot: “List the new email in acme-docs and summarize each attachment.”

A dot can also start work when mail arrives. The AgentMail plugin sends a message.received event, and dots can act on it (AgentMail: MCP Events). Ask your dot:

Whenever acme-docs@agentmail.to gets a new email, tell me who sent it, the subject and a one-line summary.

The dot confirms when it watches the inbox. The task starts a few seconds after each new email. Spam, blocked mail and mail that fails sender authentication do not start it. To stop the task, ask the dot to stop watching the inbox. On workspace plans, an admin controls which plugins you can use.

Three tasks to try

  • Vendor quotes. Forward two PDF quotes to the inbox. Ask for a table of prices, delivery dates and exclusions, with a link to each email. Tell the dot to write “not stated” for a cost that a quote does not show.
  • Weekly receipts. Collect receipts in the inbox. Each Friday, ask the dot for a list of merchants, dates and totals.
  • Sign-in emails for a research tool. Use the inbox for the sign-in emails of an account that you own and that you let the dot use. Tell the dot not to put codes or sign-in links in summaries. Keep account recovery on your own email address.

A prompt for the vendor quotes:

Use only the acme-docs inbox. Make a table of this week’s vendor quotes: price, delivery date and exclusions. Link each source email. Flag files that you cannot read and terms that are missing. Do not reply to vendors.

Control what the dot does with email

Custom rules set when the dot must ask you first (OpenAI: Control your dot):

  1. On the web or in the desktop app, open Settings > Personalization.
  2. Under Permissions, select Custom rules.
  3. Select Add and describe the action, for example “send an email”.
  4. Choose Ask before taking action, then select Add rule.

For your own accounts, a dot has a sign-in flow that does not need an inbox. When a website needs a login, the dot sends you a sign-in request with a private form. You type the password and the verification code there, outside the conversation (OpenAI: Connect computers and apps).

Give your dot documents without email

  • On iPhone, open a photo, or content in another app that uses the share sheet. Tap Share and choose your dot (OpenAI: Message your dot).
  • Install the Google Drive plugin, and the dot can read and update your documents.
  • Connect your computer from your dot’s profile, and the dot can use local files. Keep the computer online with the ChatGPT app open.

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