Zoho Mail app for Mac: Zoho beside your other accounts

Zoho Mail on a Mac today

Zoho Mail works in the browser and in Zoho Mail Desktop Lite, Zoho's desktop app for Mac (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux, which Zoho describes as “the comfort of your webmail now in your desktop”.

Other mail apps connect over IMAP once you turn on IMAP Access in Zoho Mail's settings, with an app-specific password if you sign in with two factors.

How LocalInbox works with Zoho Mail

• It picks Zoho's servers for your region from your address: imap.zoho.com for zoho.com, and imap.zoho.eu, imap.zoho.in or imap.zoho.com.au (with the matching smtp. server) for zoho.eu, zoho.in and zoho.com.au. zohomail addresses work the same way.
• On your own domain, Zoho's servers are imappro.zoho.com and smtppro.zoho.com: change them under Server settings when you add the account.
• If you sign in to Zoho with two factors, it uses an app-specific password from Zoho Accounts › Security.
• Zoho sits beside your other accounts in one inbox, with one search across all of them.
• The password is kept in the macOS Keychain and sent only to the mail server.

What LocalInbox adds

What every account gets in LocalInbox, Zoho Mail included:

• Unified inbox: One inbox for Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail, Zoho, GMX, AOL, Proton Mail Bridge and any IMAP account, each with its own colour. Native and fast.
• On-device AI: LocalInbox summarises, sorts and drafts your email with Apple's on-device model. No AI cloud unless you add your own key, and no LocalInbox server.
• Ask your mailbox: Ask a question in plain words and LocalInbox answers from your own mail, with numbered sources you can open. It runs on your Mac by default.
• To Reply and smart sorting: LocalInbox sorts mail into Primary, Updates, Promotions and your own categories, and keeps a To Reply mailbox of mail waiting on you.
• Today and the Morning brief: Today lists what needs a reply, what you're waiting on, meetings, deadlines, parcels and trips. The Morning brief sums up important mail, on your Mac.
• Waiting On and Nudge: Waiting On lists mail you sent that hasn't had an answer after three days. Nudge writes a polite follow-up for you to edit and send.
• Phishing warnings: LocalInbox flags suspected phishing and says why: a look-alike address, failed SPF, DKIM or DMARC, a misleading link, or pressure to sign in or pay.
• Search inside attachments: LocalInbox reads the text in scanned PDFs and photos on your Mac, so a receipt or a boarding pass turns up in search.
• Undo Send, Send Later and snooze: Undo Send for up to 30 seconds, Send Later, snooze, and remind me if no reply, for every account. They work even when LocalInbox is closed.

Set up Zoho Mail in LocalInbox

1. In Zoho Mail, turn on IMAP Access under Settings › Mail Accounts.
2. With two-factor sign-in on, create an app-specific password in Zoho Accounts › Security.
3. In LocalInbox, open Settings › Accounts and click Add Account (or use the welcome screen the first time).
4. Choose Zoho Mail, enter your address, paste the password and click Add.

Server settings and what to do if it doesn't connect: Zoho Mail IMAP and SMTP settings, and how to turn on IMAP.

Sources

Facts about Zoho Mail's own apps were checked in November 2026 and can change. Facts about LocalInbox come from its own documentation.

• Zoho: Zoho Mail desktop app