# Does Microsoft Outlook have an MCP server?

**Yes — Official.** Microsoft Outlook maintains an official MCP server.

> Preview and gated: requires a Microsoft 365 Copilot license and an Entra enterprise-app registration.

## Facts

- Verdict: Official (Yes)
- Access: Built into the product — Ships inside the vendor's own app or CLI rather than as a standalone download.
- Endpoint: `Work IQ Mail MCP — Agent 365, tenant-scoped`
- Category: [Communication](https://mcpyet.com/category/communication/)
- Verified against vendor docs: 2026-08-10
- GitHub data refreshed: 2026-08-11 (re-checked every 6 hours)

## The receipts

- **In-product:** Work IQ Mail MCP — Agent 365, tenant-scoped — ships inside Microsoft Outlook's own product rather than as a standalone server. Documented at <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-agent-365/tooling-servers-overview>.
- **Community alternative:** [Softeria/ms-365-mcp-server](https://github.com/Softeria/ms-365-mcp-server) — ★ 908, pushed 2026-08-10. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with Microsoft 365 and Office services through the Graph API

## How to connect it

Ships inside the vendor's own app or CLI rather than as a standalone download.

### Claude Code

```sh
claude mcp add outlook -- npx -y <package-from-readme>
```

Swap in the exact package and flags from the repo README — most servers need an API key passed as an environment variable. Add `--scope user` to make it available in every project.

### Claude Desktop

Open **Settings → Developer → Edit Config** and add the server to `claude_desktop_config.json`, then restart Claude Desktop:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "outlook": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "<package-from-readme>"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "…"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Cursor

Add to `.cursor/mcp.json` in your project, or `~/.cursor/mcp.json` for every project:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "outlook": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "<package-from-readme>"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "…"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

Add to `.vscode/mcp.json`, then pick the server from Copilot's agent-mode tools menu:

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "outlook": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "<package-from-readme>"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### ChatGPT

ChatGPT connects to **remote servers only**, and this one runs on your machine. Either expose it through an MCP gateway that gives it a public URL, or use a client with native local support (Claude or Cursor).

## How we know

Microsoft ships first-party Work IQ Mail (mcp_MailTools) and Calendar MCP servers for Outlook under Agent 365, connectable from Claude Code and VS Code via a tenant-scoped URL.

- GitHub data refreshed 2026-08-11, then every 6 hours.
- Vendor docs verified on 2026-08-10.
- Corrections: hello@mcpyet.com.

## Also in Communication

- [Discord](https://mcpyet.com/mcp/discord.md) — Community only (Sort of)
- [Slack](https://mcpyet.com/mcp/slack.md) — Official (Yes)
- [Gmail](https://mcpyet.com/mcp/gmail.md) — Official (Yes)
- [WhatsApp](https://mcpyet.com/mcp/whatsapp.md) — Community only (Sort of)
- [Telegram](https://mcpyet.com/mcp/telegram.md) — Community only (Sort of)
- [Twilio](https://mcpyet.com/mcp/twilio.md) — Official (Yes)

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Source: https://mcpyet.com/mcp/outlook/ — data refreshed 2026-08-11