You connect Outlook through Microsoft's own OAuth flow, not a password. Once you approve access on Microsoft's consent screen, Klipy turns your inbox and calendar into a working contact graph, then drafts the follow-ups you'd otherwise write by hand.
What Klipy does with your Outlook connection
Outlook is one of two supported mailbox providers, alongside Gmail (see which email providers does Klipy support?). Once you connect it, Klipy reconstructs your conversation history and builds the contact graph automatically. It filters incoming mail for real sales signal: engaged replies, meeting requests, objections, new stakeholders. Marketing and billing noise gets discarded. Klipy stores structured summaries of what matters and does not store raw email bodies (see how does Klipy build my deal history?). From there it generates follow-up drafts and to-dos and queues them for your approval; nothing sends on its own.
Calendar access comes bundled with the same connection, so you skip a separate setup step. Teams meetings with a synced calendar link get automatic notetaker capture (see how do I connect the meeting notetaker?), covering the meeting itself rather than Teams chat messages. This is a native capture mechanism: Klipy reads what Outlook already has and turns it into a working pipeline, rather than working around something Outlook leaves out.
How it connects
Connect: go to Settings, then Channels, and click Connect (or Connect Outlook). Sign in with your Microsoft work or personal account and approve the permissions shown on Microsoft's consent screen. Historical import starts in the background (see connecting email and calendar). Organizational Microsoft accounts often require an administrator to approve third-party OAuth apps, so if sign-in fails, check with IT first.
Reconnect: if a token expires, the account shows an Expired badge under Settings, then Channels. Click Reconnect and approve access again through the same OAuth pop-up. Reconnecting restores syncing without losing existing data (see why did my inbox stop syncing?).
Disconnect: from Settings, then Channels, find the account and click Disconnect. This frees that inbox and stops new capture. Contacts and interaction summaries already synced stay in your workspace; drafts tied to that account do not survive disconnect (see what counts as a connected channel?).