This doc covers how to connect any email service that supports IMAP to ClickUp so you can send and receive email communications from within a task thread. Click here to learn more about our Email in ClickUp feature.
How to Connect Your IMAP Email to ClickUp
Step 1
Within your task, click the down carrot next to comment and select
Send mail

Step 2
Next to From, select
Link an email

Step 3
In the following example, we'll walk through setting this up with Yahoo. You will be able to do this with any email service that supports IMAP. Please review the Help documents for your Email Service Provider.
Help documents for Gmail:
IMAP and SMTP server details
Help documents for Microsoft Office 365:
Sign in with IMAP and enter your email, password, IMAP host, IMAP port, SMTP host, and whether or not SSO is required
IMAP Host: imap.mail.yahoo.com
IMAP Port: 993
SMTP Host: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
SMTP Port: 465 or 587
Requires SSL: Yes
This information and further instructions for Yahoo can also be found here.
How to generate an App password:
Login to your Yahoo account
Click your avatar in the top right corner of your screen and select
Account Info
Click
Account Security
Select
Generate app password

5. Choose Other App
from the dropdown and create a custom name
6. Click Generate

7. Copy and paste the password into ClickUp
8. Click Save
9. Your account is now linked!
Details on this process can also be found here.
Step 4
Choose who can send emails from this account, create signatures, and build email templates
Click
Done
to start sending emails from ClickUp!
