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Microsoft Outlook (mail) MCP server — read, search, and send email through Microsoft Graph.

Email inboxv1.0.1MITTypeScript
Freeno charge per call

Runs on your machine from its package; the steps are below.

What it does

  1. Reads
  2. Writes
  3. High impact

At most: moves money, runs code or commands, deletes data, or sends messages for you.

What it costs

Free

Odel charges nothing per call. The publisher may charge for its own service.

Runs locally over stdio

This server isn't hosted — your MCP client launches it from a package registry. Use one of the commands below, or drop the config into your client (e.g. Claude Desktop).

npmmicrosoft-outlook-mcpv1.0.1

Run

npx -y microsoft-outlook-mcp

MCP client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "microsoft-outlook": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "microsoft-outlook-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
README6 min read

Outlook  Calendar  OneDrive  SharePoint  Contacts

Microsoft MCP

Model Context Protocol servers for Microsoft 365.
Calendar · Contacts · OneDrive · Outlook · SharePoint — on the official @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, over stdio or Streamable HTTP.

CI coverage license: MIT node MCP SDK

Each server speaks the real MCP protocol and runs over either transport:

  • stdio — for local MCP clients that launch the server as a subprocess (Claude Desktop, IDEs, the MCP Inspector).
  • Streamable HTTP — for remote/hosted use, with the Microsoft Graph access token supplied per request via Authorization: Bearer.

Servers

Servernpm package (and binary)Tools
Calendarms-calendar-mcp9
Contactsms-contacts-mcp7
OneDrivems-onedrive-mcp9
Outlookmicrosoft-outlook-mcp14
SharePointms-sharepoint-mcp23

All tools are thin wrappers over the Microsoft Graph v1.0 API.

Layout

microsoft-mcp/
├── apps/                       # one MCP server per Microsoft 365 product
│   ├── calendar/
│   ├── contacts/
│   ├── onedrive/
│   ├── outlook/
│   └── sharepoint/
│       └── src/
│           ├── tools.ts        # declarative tool definitions (schema + handler)
│           └── index.ts        # run({ name, version }, tools)
└── packages/                   # shared building blocks
    ├── core/                   # MCP server bootstrap + dual transport (stdio / HTTP)
    ├── graph/                  # Microsoft Graph HTTP client
    ├── validation/             # id / path / query sanitizers
    └── logger/                 # structured JSON logging (stderr-only — stdio-safe)

A server is just a list of tools handed to run():

ts
// apps/calendar/src/index.ts
import { run } from "@microsoft-mcp/core";
import { tools } from "./tools.js";

void run({ name: "microsoft-calendar", version: "1.0.0", title: "Microsoft Calendar" }, tools);
ts
// a single tool
defineTool({
  name: "get_event",
  description: "Get a single calendar event by ID.",
  inputSchema: { event_id: z.string().describe("Event ID") },
  confirmationPolicy: "never",
  handler: ({ graph }, { event_id }) => {
    validateId(event_id, "event_id");
    return graph.request("GET", `/me/events/${event_id}`);
  },
});

confirmationPolicy ("always" for mutating/destructive tools, "never" for read-only) is surfaced to clients as MCP readOnlyHint / destructiveHint annotations.

Requirements

  • Node.js >= 20
  • pnpm 10 (corepack enable)

Setup

bash
pnpm install
pnpm build        # build all servers (turbo) -> apps/*/dist/index.js
pnpm check-types  # typecheck everything

Tests & CI

bash
pnpm test            # run the vitest suite once
pnpm test:watch      # watch mode
pnpm test:coverage   # run with a v8 coverage report (-> coverage/)

Tests live next to the code as *.test.ts and run on TypeScript source directly (no build step). The shared packages/* are covered by unit and integration tests — including a full Streamable-HTTP round-trip against a live server — and CI enforces a coverage floor on them. Each apps/* server ships an invariant suite that locks its tool surface (unique snake_case names, valid schemas and confirmation policies).

Every push and pull request to master runs CI: typecheck → build → tests with coverage. The coverage badge is regenerated from the run.

Authentication

You sign in once with your Microsoft account; the server then caches a refresh token and acquires access tokens silently from then on — no pasting, no 1-hour expiry. Sign-in uses your own Microsoft Entra ID app registration (free) so the servers act on your behalf.

1. Register an Entra ID app (one time)

  1. Azure Portal → Microsoft Entra ID → App registrations → New registration. Name it anything; pick the Supported account types that fit (single-tenant, multi-tenant, and/or personal accounts).

  2. Authentication → Add a platform → Mobile and desktop applications → add redirect URI http://localhost, and set Allow public client flows to Yes (enables the --device-code fallback).

  3. API permissions → Add a permission → Microsoft Graph → Delegated permissions → add the scopes for the servers you use (then Grant admin consent if your tenant requires it):

    ServerDelegated scopes
    CalendarCalendars.ReadWrite
    ContactsContacts.ReadWrite
    OneDriveFiles.ReadWrite.All
    OutlookMail.ReadWrite, Mail.Send
    SharePointSites.ReadWrite.All

    All servers also use User.Read. (offline_access is requested automatically for refresh.)

  4. Copy the Application (client) ID.

2. Sign in (one time per machine)

Set MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID, then run the server's login command. A browser opens; after you consent, the token is cached under ~/.config/microsoft-mcp/:

bash
export MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID=<your-client-id>

npx -y ms-calendar-mcp login           # opens the browser
npx -y ms-calendar-mcp login --device-code   # headless: shows a code to enter

From then on the server refreshes tokens automatically. Use a non-default tenant with MICROSOFT_TENANT_ID (default common).

Advanced: supply your own token

To bypass the built-in flow, supply a pre-acquired Graph token directly:

  • stdio: set MICROSOFT_ACCESS_TOKEN (takes precedence over the cached sign-in). Good for quick tests — mint one with az account get-access-token --resource https://graph.microsoft.com --query accessToken -o tsv.
  • HTTP: send Authorization: Bearer <token> on each POST /mcp request. Each request is stateless with its own token, so callers never share credentials — this is the model for hosted/remote deployments, which handle their own auth.

Running

stdio (e.g. Claude Desktop)

Each server is published to npm and runnable with npx — no clone or build. Sign in once first (npx -y ms-calendar-mcp login, see Authentication), then:

jsonc
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "microsoft-calendar": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "ms-calendar-mcp"],
      "env": { "MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID": "<your-client-id>" }
    }
  }
}

Or point at a local build instead of npm:

jsonc
{
  "command": "node",
  "args": ["/abs/path/microsoft-mcp/apps/calendar/dist/index.js"],
  "env": { "MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID": "<your-client-id>" }
}

During development you can skip the build and run the TypeScript directly:

bash
MICROSOFT_ACCESS_TOKEN=<token> pnpm --filter ms-calendar-mcp dev

Streamable HTTP

bash
# build first, then:
PORT=3000 node apps/calendar/dist/index.js --http
# or, in dev:
pnpm --filter ms-calendar-mcp dev -- --http --port 3000

The server exposes POST /mcp (the MCP endpoint) and GET /healthz. Point any Streamable-HTTP MCP client at http://localhost:3000/mcp with an Authorization: Bearer header.

Transport selection

Resolved in this order: --stdio / --http flag → MCP_TRANSPORT=stdio|http → default stdio. HTTP port: --port <n> → PORT → 3000.

Environment variables

VariableUsed byDescription
MICROSOFT_CLIENT_IDstdioEntra ID app (client) ID for sign-in. Required for the login flow.
MICROSOFT_TENANT_IDstdioTenant for sign-in: common (default), organizations, consumers, or a tenant ID.
MICROSOFT_ACCESS_TOKENstdioPre-acquired Graph token; overrides the cached sign-in when set.
MICROSOFT_MCP_CACHE_DIRstdioOverride the token-cache directory (default ~/.config/microsoft-mcp).
MCP_TRANSPORTbothstdio (default) or http.
PORThttpListen port (default 3000).
MCP_HTTP_BODY_LIMIThttpMax request body size (default 50mb) for base64 uploads.
MCP_DEBUGbothAny non-empty value enables debug logs (to stderr).

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