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Feature request for Grok Bot.
Right now a claimed bot email address is permanent, and each account gets only one. Bots get renamed all the time as people settle on how they use them, and once that happens the address no longer matches the bot.
Please add a way to rename or swap a claimed address. Even a short grace period after claiming, or a one-time change, would cover most cases.
MacOS
Use [email protected] instead of [email protected] in forms. This way, you can have an infinite number of botnames with one email account without any confusion.
Thanks! Quick clarification: in [email protected], is ‘username’ the name in front of the bot’s claimed address, or the account or forum username? And have you confirmed that mail.grokbot.com actually delivers plus-addressed mail to the base inbox?
Good quæstions.
“Username” is your immutable mailbox name which you’ve claimed.
I have not tested the plus scheme on the new email service until now. I had suggested it on the basis that it usually works in other mail systems.
Bad news: it doesn’t work.
Tested three AI email services:
All failed to arrive.
However the latter two AI email services make it trivial to generate new email addresses per bot and per job – unlike Grok Bot mail. Therefore the plus scheme is less important with them.
In contrast:
…both work.
Thank you for inspiring my tests.
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Our account claimed [email protected]. We’d like the handle to be [email protected] instead. Is there a way to rename a claimed inbox, or to release it and claim a new handle? If neither exists today, please treat this as a feature request to rename inbox handles. Thanks! — Tech Support
@Colin — circling back on renaming a claimed `mail.grokbot.com` address. Plus-addressing doesn’t work (confirmed in-thread), and another user just asked for the same rename/release path. Any chance of a one-time change or release-and-reclaim, or is that not on the roadmap? Happy to take whatever input you can share.
Bot email has turned out to be really useful for routing receipts and notices, which is exactly why the base name matters.
Why this matters:
name+receipts@…) help with organizing mail, but they don’t replace a base name you’re happy giving to banks, stores and contacts.Any of these would solve it:
Since retired names are never reissued, none of these would let anyone take over someone else’s address. Thanks for considering it!
+1 → Please add the ability to change a grok-bot e-mail adress. I wasn’t aware that I can’t have multiple mails or change it afterwards and now I have a mail too specific for a project / an agent and I would like to change it…
I am also experiencing the same dilemma. The introduction of this feature led me to believe EVERY BOT can have ITS OWN mailbox. Hence I chose a wrong name that is too specific. Please let us re-assign our email name.
Thank you.
Same here. From the tweets I read, it seemed that we’d have an address per bot. Now I have an immutable email address that’s overly specific. Back to agentmail.
This is a non-feature if not explained sufficiently during setup. Love the bots and functionality, but account handling & clarity on the admin side is kinda lacking.