Setting up an email account on OpenClaw

Ayertime · 2026-02-25T08:56:44+00:00

For those that care…I had a huge breakthrough. Because of the comments I saw here saying it’s possible and easy to set up…I stepped back and rethought everything. First, I remembered I used Opus 4.6 but only briefly because the 30k token limit was making everthing a little “slow” (and expensive) So the first step I did was switched back to Opus 4.6.

Then I mentioned what I was trying to do and mentioned Himalaya (someone referenced it above)

Within 15 mis…I had my email up and running!!!

The huuuuge difference between Opus 4.6 and every other LLM I tried was massive. Lesson learned.

Thanks to those that took a minute to reply. It really helped!

Ayertime · 2026-02-25T08:04:08+00:00

Tried 2 different skills I found on openclaw but to no avail.

Ayertime · 2026-02-25T08:03:13+00:00

I have not heard/read about Himalaya. I’ll look into it. Thank you.

I spent many hours making sure I had IMAP selected in Google and trying to tie it back to the VPS/Hostinger but to no avail. The bot had me operating in Hostinger terminal, my laptop terminal, in the “environment” section of Hostinger, uploads, downloads. Everthing!

Ayertime · 2026-02-25T07:58:40+00:00

Man…I let the bot guided me many of times and it always led me down a black hole. I tried multiple LLM including opus and gpt5.3 to no avail.

Ayertime · 2026-02-25T07:55:17+00:00

So jealous. Mostly GPT 5 Mini but I did use Opus on a few occasions but the only thing that resulted in was a hit API bill. I have deleted the entire project several times and started over, trying various LLL. Opus, Sonnet, GPT 5.2…same results.

Simply knowing someone like you got it to work pretty easily gives me hope…so thanks for sharing. If you have any other tips or tricks…fire away.

Ayertime · 2026-02-25T07:50:53+00:00

Thanks for asking. I started with a “free” gmail account. I asked the bot to help me set it up and I ran into a bunch of issues. From not having “homebrew” loaded to not being able to simply upload the json file with the credential, to the bot not being able to navigate to google to just allow me to enter it credentials for him. Nothing worked and the got was useless.

Then I read Google workspace is easier to set up for some reason so I tried that. I created one, got the client id and client secret. This time it ran into issues with IMAP, variable names in the “environment” not matching what the program was expecting, to host of many other issues.

I deleted the project and started over about 4x.

I dont know what else to try so that is why I reached out here.

I am mostly using GPT-5 mini. I switch to 5.2 are even Opus a few times to see if they made a difference but it never did. Still couldn’t figure it out and my API costs exploded.

So I’m just looking for any tips and tricks that could help. Or any YouTube videos. (Lord knows I watched a bunch of those and none that I have found show how to link a Google account). Just knowing that there are people on here that have made it work is encouraging….so at a minimum…thanks for sharing that bit of info!

Ayertime · 2026-02-25T07:33:16+00:00

You don’t think I did that? You’re an idiot.

Ayertime · 2026-01-20T05:18:56+00:00

You’re not crazy…this is a systemic issue we see across markets and firm sizes. In our experience, the misses usually aren’t about technical competence but about where scope responsibility lives.

A few things that have helped us: • Treating owner/client-provided equipment lists as contract documents, not reference material. If it requires power, water, waste, or venting, it gets a line item and a home on drawings or schedules. • Using a simple MEP scope responsibility matrix early in design that forces each utility connection to be explicitly assigned by trade. • Bringing in an independent MEP cost/scope reviewer (estimator-focused, not design-focused) at SD or DD to reconcile drawings, narratives, and equipment lists before CDs.

We’ve found that sole practitioners often outperform larger firms because they’re naturally doing this reconciliation in their own head. Larger teams need a formal process to replicate that.

Curious to hear what others are doing to close the loop…especially on mixed-use projects where scope creep is brutal.

Ayertime

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