Connect GoDaddy email to Claude,
Cursor, ChatGPT, any MCP client
Give your AI agent a real GoDaddy inbox. Read, search, send, reply, schedule and organize mail over IMAP, once you know which of GoDaddy's several mail products your address actually sits on.
Claude cannot reach a GoDaddy mailbox on its own. mcpemails is a hosted MCP server that connects GoDaddy Professional Email over IMAP at imap.secureserver.net on port 993, authenticating with your full address and that mailbox's own email password, so Claude, Cursor or any MCP client can read, search, send and organize the mail. GoDaddy sells more than one mail product under the same brand, and a Microsoft 365 mailbox bought through GoDaddy is a Microsoft mailbox, which connects with Outlook (Sign in with Microsoft) rather than IMAP, so check which one you have first. One inbox is free, forever.
How GoDaddy connects: identify the product, then IMAP
"GoDaddy email" is three or four different services sharing one brand, and they do not share settings. Professional Email, which GoDaddy sells under the Titan platform, is the current mainstream product and is documented by GoDaddy at imap.secureserver.net port 993 and smtpout.secureserver.net port 465, both with implicit TLS, using the address as the username and that mailbox's own password. The retired Workspace Email product used the same secureserver hostnames, which is why so many old guides on the web still show them. Microsoft 365 from GoDaddy is not a GoDaddy mailbox at all: it is a Microsoft tenant that GoDaddy resells and bills, living on Microsoft's own servers. And a mailbox created inside cPanel Web Hosting lives on your hosting server, not on secureserver, and uses that server's own hostname. Get the product right and the rest of the setup is two minutes.
Microsoft 365 mailbox from GoDaddy? Connect it with Outlook (Sign in with Microsoft)
The exact GoDaddy IMAP and SMTP settings
Copy these into the connect form. mcpemails prefills them where it can, and retries the other standard transport if the first does not answer.
| Protocol | Server | Port | Security |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMAP (incoming) | imap.secureserver.net | 993 | TLS (implicit) |
| SMTP (outgoing) | smtpout.secureserver.net | 465 | TLS (implicit) |
Verified 2026-08-31: imap.secureserver.net answered a TLS connection and identified itself as an IMAP server under that name. It advertises PLAIN authentication.
Sign in with: Your full address, including the domain: name@yourdomain.com.
A GoDaddy inbox your agent can actually use
Seventeen action-based MCP tools: send, reply, forward, schedule, and organize. Your agent finishes the job inside GoDaddy.
- 01Read
Read & search mail
List, read and search across folders to find that invoice, summarize a thread, or pull the latest from a sender.
- 02Send
Send, reply & forward
Compose and send real messages, reply in-thread, and forward, directly from your mailbox, not as a draft you finish by hand.
- 03Schedule
Schedule for later
Queue a message to go out at the right time, so your agent can draft now and send on schedule.
- 04Organize
Move, copy, flag, archive, delete
Keep the inbox tidy: file mail into folders, flag what matters, archive the rest, or delete on request.
Connect GoDaddy in four steps
From sign-up to first AI email in a couple of minutes.
Create your free mcpemails account
Sign up at mcpemails.com. The free plan connects one inbox forever and does not ask for a card.
Check which GoDaddy mail product you have
Sign in to GoDaddy and open the Email & Office dashboard under My Products. The plan name on the tile is the answer. Professional Email is the Titan-based product and uses the secureserver hosts. Microsoft 365 opens Outlook on the web and is a Microsoft mailbox: connect it with Outlook instead of these IMAP settings. If the address was created in cPanel under Email Accounts instead, its settings are the ones shown at yourdomain.com/webmail under Configure Mail Client, not the secureserver ones.
Get the mailbox password and allow external clients
In the Email & Office dashboard, open Manage next to the address and set or reset its email password. This is the mailbox's own password, not your GoDaddy account login. If the login is still refused, check the mailbox's security settings for the third-party or external email client toggle, and note that Titan blocks external clients while two-factor authentication is switched on for that mailbox.
Paste the MCP URL into your AI
Add your address and password in mcpemails, then drop https://mcpemails.com/api/mcp into Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT, authorize, and your agent has the inbox.
Comparing providers first? See the email provider compatibility matrix
Every GoDaddy mailbox your company runs, on one agent
If your company runs more than one address on GoDaddy, such as info@, sales@ and invoices@, connect each one to the same mcpemails workspace. Your AI client then reaches all of them through the one MCP URL, in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP client. Every tool call names the mailbox it acts on, each mailbox keeps its own sender name and signature, and a reply goes out through the mailbox it belongs to.
Free connects one mailbox, Personal three, and Pro every mailbox you run, on one login.
What actually goes wrong with GoDaddy
A Microsoft 365 mailbox bought from GoDaddy connects with Outlook, not IMAP
GoDaddy resells Microsoft 365 and has been migrating its old Workspace Email customers onto it, so a large share of people who think they have "a GoDaddy email" now have a Microsoft mailbox with a GoDaddy invoice. Those mailboxes do not live on imap.secureserver.net; they live on Microsoft's servers, so connect them with the Outlook option (Sign in with Microsoft) rather than with the settings on this page. Because it is a work Microsoft 365 account, your organisation's IT admin may need to approve MCP Emails once first, and the dashboard gives you an approval link to send them. The tell is simple: if signing in to your webmail lands you in Outlook on the web, that is the Microsoft product.
Half the GoDaddy IMAP guides online are for a product that no longer exists
Workspace Email has been retired and its customers moved to Microsoft 365, but the guides written for it are still the top results for "GoDaddy IMAP settings", and they show the secureserver hostnames. Confusingly, those hostnames are still correct, because GoDaddy's current Professional Email uses the same ones. So a migrated user follows a guide, enters settings that look right, and gets an authentication failure with no clue why: the settings were fine, the mailbox simply is not there any more.
Titan blocks external clients while 2FA is on for the mailbox
GoDaddy Professional Email runs on Titan, which gates IMAP, POP and SMTP behind a third-party app access setting on the mailbox and refuses external client connections while two-factor authentication is enabled for that mailbox. The refusal surfaces as a login failure, so it is routinely mistaken for a wrong password. Check that toggle before you reset anything.
GoDaddy's IMAP server does not advertise SASL-IR
The IMAP server behind imap.secureserver.net identifies itself as Fenix and omits the SASL-IR capability, so it rejects the one-step authentication that sends credentials on the same line as the AUTHENTICATE command. Clients that assume SASL-IR receive a bare BAD with no explanation, which reads exactly like bad credentials. mcpemails detects that and retries the two-step exchange, so the connection succeeds, but it is why other IMAP tooling fails against GoDaddy while working elsewhere.
Known limits with GoDaddy
- Microsoft 365 mailboxes sold through GoDaddy are not on the secureserver hosts. Connect them with Outlook (Sign in with Microsoft); an IT admin may need to approve the app once.
- cPanel hosting mailboxes are not on the secureserver hosts. Connect those with the hostname shown in cPanel's Configure Mail Client screen instead.
- The server does not advertise the MOVE extension, so moving a message is performed as copy, flag and expunge rather than one atomic command.
GoDaddy and AI: common questions
Does Claude work with GoDaddy email?
It works with GoDaddy Professional Email, the Titan-based product, once an MCP server such as mcpemails is connected to the mailbox over IMAP. Claude has no built-in GoDaddy connector. A Microsoft 365 mailbox bought through GoDaddy works too, but it connects with Outlook (Sign in with Microsoft) rather than IMAP, and an IT admin may need to approve MCP Emails once first.
What are the GoDaddy IMAP and SMTP settings?
For Professional Email, IMAP is imap.secureserver.net on port 993 with implicit TLS and SMTP is smtpout.secureserver.net on port 465, also implicit TLS. The username is your full email address and the password is that mailbox's own email password. Both hosts are documented by GoDaddy and were confirmed from a live TLS connection.
How do I tell whether I have Professional Email or Microsoft 365?
Open My Products in your GoDaddy account and look at the Email & Office dashboard. The plan name is printed on the tile for each address. A quicker check: sign in to your webmail. If you land in Outlook on the web, it is Microsoft 365. If you land in the Titan webmail interface, it is Professional Email and the secureserver settings apply.
Why is my GoDaddy email password rejected?
Three common causes, in this order. You are using your GoDaddy account login rather than the mailbox's own email password. Two-factor authentication is enabled on the mailbox, which makes Titan refuse external clients. Or the mailbox was migrated to Microsoft 365 and no longer exists on the secureserver hosts at all; connect it with Outlook instead.
What about email addresses I created in cPanel hosting?
Those are ordinary IMAP mailboxes on your own hosting server and can be connected, but not with the secureserver hostnames. Sign in at yourdomain.com/webmail, open Configure Mail Client, and use the manual settings shown there. The password is the one you set for that address under Email Accounts in cPanel.
Is my GoDaddy mail stored on your servers?
No. Messages are fetched live from GoDaddy over IMAP for each request and handed to your AI client. Credentials are encrypted at rest and message bodies are not retained.
Can I connect several GoDaddy mailboxes to the same AI agent?
Yes. Connect each GoDaddy address to one mcpemails workspace and your AI client reaches all of them through the same MCP URL. Every tool call names the mailbox it acts on, so a reply to a message in sales@ goes out from sales@. Free connects one mailbox, Personal three, and Pro every mailbox you run.
Give your AI a GoDaddy inbox
Connect GoDaddy Professional Email in minutes. One inbox free forever, no card required.