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# Mail Provider
## Introduce
The email provider task is responsible for registering accounts on some websites or sending verification codes to the website's registered email address for account verification.
## Create a Mail Provider
The mail provider is a task which can read email from your email box and let other tasks to get the verification codes and activation URLs. The account generator needs a mail provider to receive the activation URLs to be able to activate accounts automatically.
Create a task with type `Gmail` from the `Tasks` on security page.
And then select a proxy group, and a proxy if necessary. \
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Click `Save` to create a Gmail task.
Click the `Start` button to start this task, and click to 
open the browser window. It supports automatic login and manual account login. If imap is used, it will automatically log in to the account.
{% hint style="warning" %}
Kylin currently supports only one email provider, that is, gmail. Make sure you have setup your catch-all email correctly and forwards all your email to the email box.
{% endhint %}
## Notes
* The mail provider must be a gmail.
* It is recommended to use isp instead of localhost
* If you create Google (imap), please note that you need to create a google (app) account category under the account page, and the password needs to be a special 16-digit password. For details, please check:
* You should set a catch-all email domain and forwards all your emails to a email address.
* It's normal if task is waiting for gmail
* Recreate updating tasks for failed accounts, until all of them become `NORMAL`
* Create the updating tasks to check account status if the status is `UNKNOWN`
* The websites that currently support emial provider are Footsites and Nike.