IMAP Email Authentication

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 go through how to set this up with Yahoo as an example, but you will be able to do this with any email service that supports IMAP. Please review the Help documents for your Email Service Provider

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 can also be found here.

How to generate an App password:

1. Login to your Yahoo account
2. Click your avatar in the top right corner of your screen and select Account Info
3. Click Account Security
4. 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!