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setPrimaryMailAccount

Set Primary Mail Account

Set the user's PRIMARY (default) mail account: the one every mail tool (sendEmail, createDraft, searchEmails, readEmail, listDrafts, …) uses when no accountId is given.

write

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "make X my primary/default inbox", and it calls setPrimaryMailAccount.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "accountId": "<accountId>"
  },
  "name": "setPrimaryMailAccount"
}

Arguments

• accountIdstringrequiredThe account to make primary: an accountId or email from listMailAccounts.

Returns

The registry does not declare a return shape.

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• make X my primary/default inbox
• send from Y by default
• switch my default mail account

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• listMailAccounts

Questions

• What does setPrimaryMailAccount do?

  Set the user's PRIMARY (default) mail account: the one every mail tool (sendEmail, createDraft, searchEmails, readEmail, listDrafts, …) uses when no accountId is given. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use setPrimaryMailAccount from Claude or ChatGPT?

  Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "make X my primary/default inbox", and it calls setPrimaryMailAccount.

• Is setPrimaryMailAccount safe to let an AI call?

  setPrimaryMailAccount changes your workspace. What an AI creates is Private until you share it.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.