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Connect Microsoft 365 or Outlook

Sign in with Microsoft to connect an Outlook or Microsoft 365 mailbox. Why the Microsoft sign-in beats an app password, and what your IT admin may need to approve.

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Use this if you read your email at outlook.office.com or outlook.com, or your company runs Microsoft 365. Connecting a mailbox never sends an email by itself.

Connect Microsoft 365 or Outlook. The steps are written on the video; the sound is only soft background music.
Transcript
  1. Connect Microsoft 365 or Outlook in about a minute.
  2. Open Mailboxes. Connecting a mailbox never sends email by itself.
  3. Pick "I use Microsoft 365 or Outlook".
  4. Use the Microsoft sign-in: Microsoft is retiring password sign-in for SMTP.
  5. Press "Connect Outlook".
  6. Microsoft asks you to sign in and accept. Some companies need an IT admin to approve once.
  7. Back in Outvori: the mailbox is connected.
  8. Microsoft 365 needs SPF and both DKIM selector records to pass.
  9. Done. Next: check your DNS records under Deliverability.

Steps

  1. Open Mailboxes. Under Which option is me? pick I use Microsoft 365 or Outlook.
  2. Press Connect Outlook.
  3. Microsoft asks you to sign in and accept the permissions (send mail, read mail, stay signed in).
  4. You come back to Mailboxes with the mailbox connected.
The Microsoft 365 card on Mailboxes
The Microsoft 365 card on Mailboxes

Why not an app password?

Microsoft turns SMTP password sign-in off by default for newer organizations, IMAP app passwords are not possible, and Microsoft is retiring password sign-in for SMTP. The Microsoft sign-in keeps working and Outvori never sees your password.

"Need admin approval"

Some companies only allow apps an IT admin has approved. If Microsoft shows Need admin approval, send this page to your IT admin: they approve Outvori once for the organization, then you connect as normal.

After connecting

Microsoft 365 needs SPF and both DKIM selector records (selector1 and selector2) to pass before Outvori sends. See Add SPF, DKIM and DMARC records.

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