Outlook
Connecting your Outlook mailbox brings your emails and their attachments into Ordalie, so you can search your correspondence, point the assistant to a particular message in the middle of a conversation, and have it read an attachment without downloading anything first.
Outlook is a personal connection, tied to your own Microsoft account rather than to your organization. Any user on the Pro plan can set it up. You can start from the left sidebar of your workspace, in the Documents section, by choosing Connect a source, or from your personal Settings, under the Integrations tab. Both lead to the same place.
Find Outlook in the list of sources and start the connection. A Microsoft sign-in window opens; sign in with your own account and approve the read-only access Ordalie asks for. Once you confirm, the window closes and your mailbox appears as a source in the Documents section of the sidebar.
What you can do with it
Ordalie reads your mailbox through the Microsoft Graph API. Your folders appear just as they do in Outlook, with Inbox, Sent Items and your own folders, and you can browse them directly in your workspace. Messages are listed by date, newest first, and load page by page; each message's attachments sit just below it, ready to open and read with the assistant. You can run a full-text search across your emails, optionally within a date range, or simply describe what you're looking for and let the assistant retrieve it. In the Outlook add-in, the assistant can also work from the selected email and prepare a reply, reply-all, new-message or meeting draft. The draft opens in Outlook for you to review and send yourself.
Permissions and privacy
Ordalie only asks for read access to your mailbox, so it can never send, change or delete any of your emails. Two permissions are requested:
- Mail.Read — read access to your mailbox
- offline_access — keeps the connection refreshed so you don't have to sign in again
Your emails are not copied onto Ordalie's servers. They are read on demand through the Microsoft Graph API and stay on Microsoft's servers throughout.
Common questions
Can Ordalie send emails for me? No. The mailbox connection stays read-only. In the Outlook add-in, Ordalie can prepare and open an editable draft, but it never sends it: you review and send from Outlook yourself.
Are my emails stored on Ordalie's servers? No. They are read on demand through the Microsoft Graph API and remain on Microsoft's servers at all times.
Which folders can Ordalie see? Every folder your own account can see, since the access is read-only and scoped to your mailbox.
How do I revoke access? Disconnect Outlook from your Settings, under the Integrations tab, or remove Ordalie from your Microsoft account's permissions page.