3/26/2023 0 Comments Imail pluginPlugin Setup Step 1 – Download and Install ![]() You will also need SSL enabled for at least the admin side of your website to ensure the OAuth keys are exchanged over a secure connection. You can register for this here (you’re probably already registered if you are using Office 365). Azure Active Directory comes in several flavours (paid and free), but it is possible to use the free tier for the purpose of this plugin. To start using Mail Integration for Office 365, you need to setup a Microsoft Azure Active Directory account. Redirect URI: this is the location to which the keys are returned by the authorisation server once successful authentication has occurred.Tenant ID: this is a unique key to identify your Microsoft account.It allows Microsoft to know that the client is genuine and has permission to request the keys for the requested resource (in this case your Microsoft mail server) Client Secret: this is a unique key linked to your Microsoft Account that should only be held by trusted clients.Client ID: this lets Microsoft know which authentication server to go to to authenticate the client.Without going into too much detail, OAuth 2.0 requires the Client (in this case our WordPress Plugin) to request a set of keys to our mail server, using the four pieces of information outlined below. ![]() As such most of the SMTP plugins available do not support Office 365/Outlook, or if they do, the functionality is a paid for feature. Microsoft has disabled basic authentication (username and password) over the SMTP protocol, requiring more modern and secure methods of authentication such as OAuth 2.0 (the protocol used by this plugin). Great, but doesn’t one of the many SMTP plugins do this? Why another WordPress mail plugin?! The plugin should however work with the paid for personal and business versions of Office 365, Outlook and Microsoft Exchange. as Microsoft has not enabled the Graph API for such accounts. In addition, the account cannot be a free account such as Live,, Hotmail etc. Note, attachments are supported, but only for files up to 3MB in size (this is the maximum request size for calls to the Microsoft Graph API). This helps improve the deliverability of your WordPress mail, as Microsoft’s mail servers are set up to avoid being flagged as spam, and should already be configured as the trusted mail server for your domain. Put simply, the plugin relays all emails sent from WordPress through your Microsoft email account (or an account of your choosing, for example a shared mailbox). ![]() – Marco van Wieren | Downloads by van Wieren | If you have already installed and configured the Mail Integration for Office 365 / Outlook plugin, then please make sure to check out our easy-to-understand online migration guide. To ensure, however, that we are able to provide you with long time support, we urge you to download and install the WPO365 | MICROSOFT GRAPH MAILER plugin for WordPress instead (and de-activate the Mail Integration for Office 365 / Outlook plugin and remove it from your WordPress website). We are committed to provide (best-effort based) support for this plugin until the end of 2023. Early November 2022, ownership of the Mail Integration for Office 365 / Outlook plugin transferred to WPO365.
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