Read and send email over IMAP/SMTP with any provider — check unread, fetch, search, mark, and send with attachments.
Best Email Skills for Claude Code (2026)
The best Claude Code skills for email work — from official skill repos to community contributors. Hand-filtered from 14 genuinely relevant results across 30,000+ skills.
At a glance
Our top pick for email is imap-smtp-email: Read and send email over IMAP/SMTP with any provider — check unread, fetch, search, mark, and send with attachments. email-draft-polish and connect-apps round out the podium. 9 of the 10 picks are rated high-relevance for this exact use case.
Draft, rewrite, and condense emails to a target tone, length, and audience for cold outreach, replies, and escalations.
Connect Claude to Gmail (plus Slack, GitHub) to send emails and take real actions in external services.
Build reusable, well-structured email templates for consistent, on-brand messaging.
Design high-ROI email programs with personalization and deliverability instead of spam-prone bulk blasts.
Automate Brevo/Sendinblue email campaigns — manage templates, senders, and track campaign performance.
Automate Zoho Mail — send email, manage folders, labels, and mailbox organization via Composio.
Administer and automate Gmail via the gws CLI, including security audits and built-in workflows.
Investigate phishing emails end-to-end — header analysis, URL/attachment detonation, and containment with SOC tooling.
Detect business email compromise using NLP on writing style and behavioral anomalies that evade traditional filters.
Frequently asked
What is the best email skill for Claude Code?
imap-smtp-email (from LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills) is our #1 pick. Read and send email over IMAP/SMTP with any provider — check unread, fetch, search, mark, and send with attachments. It ranked first out of 14 genuinely relevant skills we evaluated for email.
How were these email skills selected?
We filtered 30,000+ catalogued Claude Code skills down to 14 genuinely relevant to email, then ranked the top 10 by usefulness, completeness, and source reputation, spanning ai-ml, productivity, communication, frontend.
How do I install a email skill in Claude Code?
Open any skill on this list for full instructions. In most cases you copy the skill folder (with its SKILL.md) into your project's .claude/skills/ directory, or install it via the source repo's plugin marketplace. All 10 listed skills are open source and free.