Let it read your Gmail

You need a Google account with 2-Step Verification switched on. Some work or school accounts switch app passwords off and cannot connect this way.

1. In the chat, say:

   Connect Gmail for me

2. On Windows, a window opens. On a Mac or Linux, Godspeed gives you a command to type in that computer's terminal. On the one-line server, it gives you a line that starts with docker exec: paste it into the server's own terminal, where you installed it. Type your Gmail address there.

3. Google's app password page opens in your browser. On a server, you get its address to open on your phone or laptop.

4. Type a name such as godspeed mail and click Create. Google shows an app password of 16 letters.

5. Type or paste those 16 letters into the window or terminal. They stay hidden as you type.

6. Godspeed checks it with Gmail. You see "Gmail accepted it. Signed in as" and your address.

• It searches your mail, reads a message, lists your drafts and saves a new draft. Ask, for example, "Draft a reply to the landlord saying Thursday works."
• It cannot send. You read the draft in Gmail, change what you like and press Send yourself.
• Text inside an email is information, never an instruction.
• Attachments are named but not opened. Open them in Gmail.
• The connection belongs to that one computer.

1. Say "disconnect my Gmail" in the chat, or run mc-mail disconnect gmail in a terminal on that computer.
2. Remove the app password on Google's app password page. Only that stops it working everywhere.

• It says Gmail did not accept the app password. Say "Connect Gmail for me" again.
• It says it has no mail tool. Close the AI app you use, such as Claude Code, and open it again. If that does not help, run mc-mail setup --check in a terminal.

• Chat with Godspeed
• What it does alone, and what it asks first