Outlook Mail MCP connector
The Outlook Mail connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor 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.
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How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
37 tools
How to connect
How to connect Outlook Mail to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Outlook Mail once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Outlook Mail.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Approve it in Outlook Mail. Outlook Mail's own window opens. Whoever approves it decides what this connection can reach.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Connect Outlook Mail to 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.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Connect Outlook Mail to ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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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 today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Connect Outlook Mail to 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.
Connect Outlook Mail to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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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.
Use cases
What teams do with Outlook Mail through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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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.”
AI tools
Outlook Mail tools for your AI agents
37 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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See it in Elaichi
What connecting Outlook Mail gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Outlook Mail account.
The agent
Ask in plain words, read live mail.
The agent answers from real Outlook Mail messages, drafts and folders.
- messages
- drafts
- folders
- attachments
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 or Cursor
MCP clients
One endpoint reaches Outlook Mail everywhere.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, no SDK, no shared key.
ElaichiMCP clientsClaude
ChatGPT
Cursor
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
37 Outlook Mail tools, no custom code.
Send, reply, forward, move and search messages through named tools and methods.
- List all Outlook Mail me
- List all Outlook Mail messages
- Get single Outlook Mail message by ID
- Create a Outlook Mail message
ElaichiToolsToolboxes
Every team gets its own toolbox.
Support reads inboxes, Sales sends replies, each toolbox scoped to one team.
- Support
- Sales
- Finance
- Recruiting
ElaichiToolboxesShared connections
Share a mailbox, never a password.
See who connected each Outlook Mail account and which teams use it.
- Support Inbox
- Sales EMEA
- Finance
- Recruiting
ElaichiConnectionsAudit log
Every message sent has a name on it.
When, who, what happened, type and resource for each Outlook Mail call.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
ElaichiAudit logLaunching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule drafts the digest, you approve.
Fetch messages, group them, draft a digest, approve, then send from Outlook Mail.
Outlook Mail digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch messages
Outlook Mail
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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
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Outlook Mail
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Mail volume counted, not summarized.
Four metrics, fourteen days of messages sent, split by team, refreshed hourly.
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%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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, 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 blocking sending, deleting messages or removing folders. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other client at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
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 and every other client in one step.
Put Outlook Mail in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.