# Email agent onboarding This page is a guide to getting started with Spara Email agents. For a refresher on how Chat agents work, please see [https://docs.spara.com/agents/agent-overview](https://docs.spara.com/agents/agent-overview "mention") and [https://docs.spara.com/agents/email-agents](https://docs.spara.com/agents/email-agents "mention"). ### Step 1: Connect email address Spara Email agents send emails from an authenticated email address. * Navigate to the [Email Configuration](https://app.spara.co/settings/email/configuration) page * Authenticate your email provider, either Gmail or Microsoft Outlook * Set up the specific email address that Spara will manage For example... * ACME authenticates Gmail as their email provider... * ...and configures Spara to send all emails from `spara@acme.com` ### Step 2: Configure an Email agent Email agents are designed to *respond* to incoming emails. Define how you'd like Spara to respond to emails by writing out a prompt in the Reply Agent tab. ### Step 3: Build a workflow Workflows are how Spara's AI knows when to send outgoing emails, among other things. See [https://docs.spara.com/agents/workflows](https://docs.spara.com/agents/workflows "mention") to learn more - use the "Send Email" step! --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.spara.com/guides/installation-guides/email-agent-onboarding.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.