Microsoft Outlook Email Reader

Microsoft Outlook Email Reader

pip install llama-index-readers-microsoft-outlook-emails

The loader retrieves emails from an Outlook mailbox and indexes the subject and body of the emails.

Prerequisites

App Authentication using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)

1. You need to create an App Registration in Microsoft Entra ID. Refer here
2. API Permissions for the created app:
   1. Microsoft Graph --> Application Permissions --> Mail.Read (Grant Admin Consent)

More info on Microsoft Graph APIs - Refer here

Usage

To use this loader, client_id, client_secret, and tenant_id of the registered app in Microsoft Azure Portal are required.

This loader fetches emails from a specified folder in an Outlook mailbox.

from llama_index.readers.outlook_emails import OutlookEmailReader

loader = OutlookEmailReader(
    client_id="<Client ID of the app>",
    client_secret="<Client Secret of the app>",
    tenant_id="<Tenant ID of the Microsoft Azure Directory>",
    user_email="<User Email Address>",
    folder="Inbox",
    num_mails=10,
)

documents = loader.load_data()

The loader retrieves the subject and body of the emails from the specified folder in Outlook.