Outlook Mail MCP connector
The Outlook Mail connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and other AI clients read, search, draft, send, reply to and file email inside each person's own Outlook Mail mailbox, with every action restricted per person and recorded in an audit log.
- Connects over OAuth
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
Claude
Elaichi connected
Summarize unread messages in the support inbox from yesterday.
Working in Outlook Mail with Elaichi
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List all Outlook Mail me
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Governance
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Audit log
Last 24 hours
Claude · 9:41 AM
Done
Claude · 9:41 AM
Done
Claude · 9:41 AM
Done
ChatGPT · 9:38 AM
Done
Cursor · 9:35 AM
Done
How to connect Outlook Mail to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Outlook Mail MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Outlook Mail MCP connector for Claude Code
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In a terminal, run
claude mcp addwith the endpoint.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Start Claude Code and run
/mcp. -
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Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.
Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.
Outlook Mail MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Outlook Mail MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Outlook Mail MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot
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In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
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Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
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Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.
- Server URL
- https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Type
- Dynamic discovery
Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.
Connect Outlook Mail to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
What teams do with Outlook Mail through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Outlook Mail is logged.
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Sales
Catch up on a prospect before the call
Ask for every message from a prospect this quarter and get a short summary of where the conversation stands. Have a follow-up drafted in Outlook Mail so it is waiting for you to send after the call.
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Support
Turn a customer's email into an answer
Pull up the customer's message and its attachments, draft a reply that answers what they actually asked, and move the thread into the resolved folder once it is handled.
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Recruiting
Forward candidate emails to the interviewer
Find the messages a candidate has sent, resume included, and forward them to the hiring manager with a note on what to look at. Nobody has to hunt through the inbox by hand.
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Finance
Collect every invoice sitting in the inbox
Search Outlook Mail for messages with invoices attached, download the attachments, and move the messages into a month-end folder so nothing is missed at close.
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Operations
Keep vendor and project mail organized
Create folders by vendor or project and move messages into them as they arrive. A cluttered inbox becomes something the whole team can work from.
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Executive assistants
Draft replies for a full inbox
Go through the unread messages, draft a reply to each one in the right tone, and leave them as drafts in Outlook Mail to review before anything goes out.
Try asking
- “Summarize unread messages in the support inbox from yesterday.”
- “Find messages from Acme about the renewal contract.”
- “Draft a reply to the latest message from Priya.”
What connecting Outlook Mail gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Outlook Mail account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Summarize unread messages in the support inbox from yesterday.
Find messages from Acme about the renewal contract.
Draft a reply to the latest message from Priya.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask in plain words, read live mail.
The agent answers from real Outlook Mail messages, drafts and folders.
ElaichiAI appsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
One endpoint reaches Outlook Mail everywhere.
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot connect over OAuth, no SDK, no shared key.
ElaichiToolsTool catalog
43 Outlook Mail tools, no custom code.
Send, reply, forward, move and search messages through named tools and methods.
ElaichiToolboxesToolboxes
Every team gets its own toolbox.
Support reads inboxes, Sales sends replies, each toolbox scoped to one team.
ElaichiConnectionsShared connections
Share a mailbox, never a password.
See who connected each Outlook Mail account and which teams use it.
ElaichiAudit logAudit log
Every message sent has a name on it.
When, who, what happened, type and resource for each Outlook Mail call.
From answering questions to doing the work
A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.
Outlook Mail digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch messages
Outlook Mail
1.4s -
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
6.2s -
Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Outlook Mail
Queued
Automations
A schedule drafts the digest, you approve.
Fetch messages, group them, draft a digest, approve, then send from Outlook Mail.
Outlook Mail health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the messages collection
Messages
1,284 ↓ 12%
Drafts
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Messages created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Support Inbox 34%
Sales EMEA 27%
Finance 21%
Recruiting 18%
Collections and dashboards
Mail volume counted, not summarized.
Four metrics, fourteen days of messages sent, split by team, refreshed hourly.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Outlook Mail
All three can connect Outlook Mail to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over Outlook Mail tools | Allow or restrict single Outlook Mail tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per Outlook Mail call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
Outlook Mail tools for your AI agents
43 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Outlook Mail, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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Questions, answered
How do I connect Outlook Mail to Claude?
It takes two steps. In Elaichi, choose Outlook Mail and sign in with your Microsoft account the same way you would sign in to Outlook on the web; there is no client ID or secret to generate and nothing to register with Microsoft. Then in Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Claude will ask you to sign in to Elaichi, and Outlook Mail is available from then on.
Does Outlook Mail work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Outlook Mail is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Outlook Mail once and every client you use picks it up, so there is nothing to redo per app.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Outlook Mail data?
With Outlook Mail connected, an agent can search your mailbox, read a message or a whole thread, summarize it, and draft, send, reply, reply all or forward on your behalf. It can download attachments, move messages into folders, and create or rename folders to keep things organized. Because Outlook Mail offers a lot of actions, short concrete asks such as "find last week's emails from Acme with attachments" work better than long instructions.
Does connecting Outlook Mail give the AI access to my whole mailbox?
The AI sees exactly what the person who signed in to Outlook Mail can see, and nothing more. If you cannot open a shared mailbox or another person's folders in Outlook Mail, neither can the agent working as you. Elaichi can narrow that access further, for example to reading only, but it can never widen it beyond what Outlook Mail already allows you.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Outlook Mail?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi work per action, so you can allow reading and drafting in Outlook Mail while restricting sending, deleting messages or removing folders. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot or any other client cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.
What happens to a Outlook Mail connection when someone leaves?
When a person is offboarded in Elaichi, their access to Outlook Mail through every client ends at once. If they had shared their Outlook Mail connection with a team, it keeps working for everyone else until an admin decides otherwise. Disconnecting Outlook Mail once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and every other client in one step.
Does the Outlook Mail MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Outlook Mail is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Outlook Mail?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Outlook Mail. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Outlook Mail call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Outlook Mail?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Outlook Mail: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Outlook Mail in front of your team
14 days of Black, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.
Add one link to your AI app
The same link for everyone on your team.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- ChatGPT
- Claude
- Cursor
- Microsoft Copilot