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Zoho Mail

Syncs your inbox with your CRM, automates email triage based on sender intent, and manages folder organization and label application across your team mailboxes.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Zoho Mail integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Zoho Mail calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Zoho Mail data, across all 15 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Zoho Mail access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Zoho Mail, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Zoho Mail is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Zoho Mail.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Zoho Mail action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Zoho Mail, and when to use it.

Send email
Use this when a workflow needs to send a new message to a recipient, including custom CC and BCC fields.
Create draft
Draft a response for a human to review before sending. Use this for sensitive client communications.
Get message
Pull the full content and headers of a specific email by ID to analyze sentiment or extract data.
List messages
Pull a list of emails from a specific folder or with specific criteria to drive audit reports.
Search emails
Query the inbox by keyword, sender, or date range to find specific historical threads.
Move message
Shift an email from the inbox to a specific folder to mark a task as completed or categorized.
Add label
Apply a specific tag to a message for organizational purposes and filtered views.
Remove label
Strip a label from a message when a status changes, such as moving from pending to resolved.
Mark as read
Update the status of a message to read to clear the notification count for the user.
Delete message
Move a message to the trash. Use this for automated cleanup of old notification emails.
Get folder list
Pull all available folders in the account to ensure the agent uses valid destination IDs.
Get contact
Pull contact details associated with an email address to enrich the workflow context.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven uses OAuth 2.0 to connect to your Zoho Mail account. When you start the integration, you are redirected to the Zoho accounts page where you grant specific permissions to the Ceven agent. We never see or store your password. Instead, we receive an access token and a refresh token. The access token is used for individual API calls and expires quickly, while the refresh token allows us to maintain the connection without asking you to log in every few hours. You can revoke this access at any time through your Zoho security settings, which kills the token immediately and stops all agent activity.
The agent can only access the folders and messages that the OAuth scope allows. If you provide full mail access, the agent can read messages to perform triage and search tasks. However, you can restrict the agent to specific folders if your Zoho plan supports granular permissions. Every action the agent takes is logged in the Ceven audit trail, so you can see exactly which email was accessed and why. The agent does not learn from your private data to train global models, as all processing happens within your secure workflow instance.
Yes. Zoho Mail imposes strict API rate limits based on your account tier. For example, users on the free plan have much lower request quotas than those on the premium business plans. If the agent hits a rate limit, it will receive a 429 error from Zoho. Ceven handles this by implementing an exponential backoff strategy, meaning the agent will wait a few seconds and then try again. If you are processing thousands of emails in a bulk migration, you may notice a slowdown as the agent respects these limits to avoid getting your account temporarily blocked.
Absolutely. The agent can create new labels, apply them to incoming mail based on keywords, and move messages between folders. This is useful for building an automated triage system. For instance, you can tell the agent to look for the word urgent in the subject line and immediately move those emails to a High Priority folder while adding a red label. This keeps your primary inbox clean and ensures that the most important items are highlighted for your attention immediately upon login.
Yes, the agent can send emails with attachments by pulling files from your connected cloud storage like Google Drive or Dropbox. The agent first downloads the file to a temporary secure buffer and then uploads it via the Zoho Mail API as a MIME attachment. It supports all standard file types allowed by Zoho. You can build workflows that automatically attach the latest monthly report to a recurring email sent to your stakeholders on the first of every month.
The agent treats threads by looking at the message ID and the reference headers. When you ask it to summarize a conversation, it pulls all messages with the same conversation ID, sorts them by date, and creates a chronological summary. This prevents the agent from losing context when a client replies multiple times. If a thread becomes too long for the model window, the agent uses a sliding window approach to summarize the earliest parts of the conversation first before analyzing the most recent replies.
Yes. You can set up a recurring workflow that searches for messages older than a specific date and moves them to an archive folder. The agent can also filter these by sender or label to ensure you do not archive important legal documents. Because this involves many API calls, we recommend running archive workflows during off peak hours to avoid hitting the Zoho rate limits mentioned earlier. This keeps your active folders lean and improves the search speed within the Zoho interface.
If a workflow specifies a folder name that does not exist, the agent will first call the Get folder list action to see if there is a close match or a typo. If it still cannot find the folder, it will return an error to the workflow log and stop the action rather than guessing. You can configure the workflow to create the folder automatically if it is missing, ensuring that your organizational structure evolves as your business needs change without breaking the automation.

Alternatives to Zoho Mail

Other tools that solve a similar problem. Ceven supports these too, so you can switch or run more than one at once.

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