Email Automation

Read, compose, send and manage email across Gmail, Outlook and SMTP

Communication✓ SafeIntermediatev1.0.0
Last verified:March 2026

About

Email Automation gives your OpenClaw agent full control over email — reading, composing, sending, sorting and managing your inbox programmatically. Supports Gmail, Outlook and any SMTP server. Unlike basic email skills that only send messages, this skill handles threading, attachments, labels, filters and batch operations. Build agents that process incoming emails, auto-reply to common queries and keep your inbox organised.

Use Cases

  • Agent reads and categorises your inbox every morning, flagging urgent items
  • Send personalised follow-up emails after meetings or calls automatically
  • Process incoming enquiries and respond with relevant information
  • Batch send newsletters or updates to a contact list

What Email Automation can access

Moderate access

Skim the SKILL.md before installing, and check which credentials it asks for against what it actually claims to do.

  • Needs your credentials

    You must supply secrets for this skill to work. A skill with a valid key can do anything that key permits, so scope each one as narrowly as the provider allows and never reuse an admin key.

    Declares 1 required credential: EMAIL_PROVIDER_API_KEY

  • Sends messages as you

    It can send messages from your account. Anything it sends will look like it came from you, so mistakes are visible to other people.

    This skill's own description refers to "email"

These permissions are inferred from this listing — the credentials it declares, any maintainer warning, and the operations its own description mentions. ClawVault has not audited this skill's source code. Treat it as a starting point for your own review, not a substitute for one.

Installing Email Automation on OpenClaw

An OpenClaw skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file: Markdown with YAML frontmatter. At startup OpenClaw scans the eligible skill directories and injects a compressed description of each skill into its system prompt, so the agent knows what it can do and invokes a skill when a request matches.

  1. 1

    Find the skill in the registry

    openclaw skills search email-automation

    ClawHub is the public registry for OpenClaw skills. Searching first gives you the exact owner-qualified reference, which is what the install command needs. Omit the query to browse the default feed.

  2. 2

    Check what it does and who published it

    openclaw skills verify @<owner>/email-automation

    verify prints ClawHub's verification envelope, including its scan decision and, when available, a commit-pinned source URL. Add --card to read the generated Skill Card instead. Substitute the owner handle returned by the search above.

  3. 3

    Install it

    openclaw skills install @<owner>/email-automation

    Native ClawHub skills use an @owner/slug reference. By default this installs into the active workspace skills/ directory; add --global to install into the shared managed directory instead. You can also install from Git with git:owner/repo, or from a local folder with ./path.

  4. 4

    Confirm the agent can see it

    openclaw skills check

    check reports which ready skills are actually visible to the agent's prompt surface, which is the quickest way to catch a skill that installed but did not load.

Commands follow the official OpenClaw documentation. Placeholders such as <owner> are filled in by the search step, because registry references are publisher-scoped.

Requirements

API Keys & Credentials

EMAIL_PROVIDER_API_KEY

Version & Updates

Current Version
1.0.0
Last Updated
March 26, 2026
What's New

Initial release — Gmail, Outlook and SMTP support with threading and labels

Safety & verification

Listed as safe
No known issues reported for this skill in the OpenClaw ecosystem.

How OpenClaw screens skills

Since February 2026 ClawHub screens submitted skills with VirusTotal: each bundle is hashed and looked up, new bundles are scanned with Code Insight, and results drive an approve, warn or block decision with daily re-scanning. This materially reduces supply-chain risk but does not eliminate it, and independent research has found that different scanners frequently disagree about the same skill. Read the SKILL.md of anything you install, especially if it requests shell access or credentials.

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