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Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook)

Connect OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) and Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) integrations

Transform your email workflow by combining OpenAI's intelligent ChatGPT capabilities with Microsoft 365 Email automation. Generate smart responses, create personalized campaigns, and improve communication while maintaining full control over your Outlook messages.

From automated draft creation to intelligent email triage, these powerful integrations help you work faster and smarter. Let AI handle routine email tasks while you focus on what matters most—building meaningful connections and growing your business.

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Create a custom workflow

Transform OpenAI's powerful AI outputs—from ChatGPT conversations to DALL-E images, Sora videos, and Whisper transcriptions—into professionally delivered emails through Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook), automatically. Eliminate manual copying and pasting by letting Make instantly send your AI-generated content the moment OpenAI completes processing, optimizing your communication workflow from creation to delivery.

Create a custom workflow

Every automation starts with a trigger and an action. Select one from each app to generate a workflow tailored to your needs.

OpenAI (ChatGPT, Whisper)
Trigger: Watch batch completed
Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook)
Action: Select an action
1. Select a trigger

  • Triggers when a batch is completed.

2. Select an action

  • Adds a large attachment to an email.

  • Creates a new draft email.

  • Deletes an email.

  • Downloads an attachment from an email.

  • Forwards an email.

  • Gets the metadata of a specified email.

  • Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.

  • Moves an email to a selected folder in the mailbox.

  • Replies to the sender of an email.

  • Sends a draft email.

  • Sends a new MIME or S-MIME message. Requires a fully pre-built MIME message — for S/MIME, the message must already be signed or encrypted outside Make.

  • Creates and sends a new email immediately.

  • To make SMTP/IMAP calls with a Microsoft OAuth connection, please use the app named "Email".

  • Updates an existing email.

Select a trigger and an action

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Triggers and actions

Connect Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) as a trigger with OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) as an action through Make's automation platform. When OpenAI generates content—whether it's text responses from ChatGPT, videos from Sora, images from DALL-E, or transcriptions from Whisper—you can automatically trigger OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) to send emails with that AI-generated content. This integration allows you to automatically draft and send professional emails, distribute AI-generated visuals, or deliver transcribed voice messages through OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) whenever OpenAI completes its processing, eliminating manual steps in your workflow.

Add an Attachment
Adds a large attachment to an email.
Action
Analyze images (Vision)
Analyzes images according to specified instructions.
Action
Cancel a batch
Cancels an "in-progress" batch. The batch will be in status "cancelling" for up to 10 minutes, before changing to "cancelled", where it will have partial results (if any) available in the output file.
Action
Create a batch
Creates and executes a batch of API calls.
Action
Create a Draft Email
Creates a new draft email.
Action
Create a skill
Creates a new skill.
Action
Create a skill version
Creates a new immutable skill version.
Action
Create a vector store or add files
Creates a new vector store and optionally adds files to it, or adds files to an existing vector store.
Action
Delete a conversation
Deletes an existing conversation.
Action
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How to set up OpenAI (ChatGPT, Whisper) and Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) in 5 easy steps

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Log into Make and open your automation workflow

Sign into your Make account through your web browser and navigate to the scenario where you want to connect your applications. A scenario is an automated workflow that links different apps together to perform tasks automatically.

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Add your Microsoft Email module to the workflow

Click the plus button in your scenario and search for Microsoft 365 Email from the available apps. Select it to add this module to your workflow, which will allow you to work with your email in your automation.

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Start connecting your Microsoft account

Click the 'Create a connection' button that appears in your Microsoft 365 Email module. You can optionally give your connection a descriptive name like 'Work Email' to help you identify it later, then click 'Save' to continue.

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Log in and authorize access to your email

A new window will open asking you to sign into your Microsoft account with your email and password. After logging in, Microsoft will ask for your permission to let Make access your email—review the permissions and click 'Accept' or 'Allow' to grant access.

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Complete your automation with additional apps

Once connected, you'll return to Make with a confirmation that your Microsoft Email is ready to use. Now you can add other apps like OpenAI GPT-3 to your scenario and connect them together to create your complete automation workflow.

Transform your email workflow with AI-powered OpenAI and Outlook integration

Automate email responses, generate smart drafts, and improve communication by connecting OpenAI (ChatGPT, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper) with Microsoft 365 Email (Outlook) for intelligent workflow automation.

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AI-powered email response automation

Automatically generate intelligent, context-aware email responses using ChatGPT and send them through Outlook, eliminating manual reply composition and reducing response time.

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Smart draft creation for email review

Monitor incoming Outlook messages and create AI-generated draft responses that you can review and refine before sending, ensuring quality control while saving time.

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Personalized email campaign generation

Use ChatGPT to create customized, engaging email content at scale and automatically deliver it through Microsoft 365 Email for more effective communication.

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Intelligent email monitoring and triage

Automatically analyze incoming Outlook messages with AI to categorize, prioritize, and generate appropriate responses based on content and context.

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By integrating OpenAI with Microsoft 365 Email through Make, you can automate email responses using AI-powered content generation, automatically summarize long email threads with GPT-4, draft professional replies based on incoming message context, categorize and prioritize emails intelligently, and even generate email content in multiple languages. This integration allows you to save hours weekly by letting AI handle routine email tasks while you focus on strategic work.

Popular use cases include: automatically generating personalized email responses to customer inquiries using ChatGPT, creating meeting summaries and action items from email threads, translating incoming international emails and drafting responses in the recipient's language, analyzing sentiment in customer emails and routing them accordingly, generating professional follow-up emails after meetings, and creating email templates based on specific triggers. Make's visual automation builder makes setting up these workflows straightforward without requiring coding knowledge.

Not at all! Make provides a user-friendly, drag-and-drop interface that makes connecting OpenAI and Microsoft 365 Email straightforward. You simply authenticate both accounts, select triggers (like receiving a new email in Outlook) and actions (like generating a response with ChatGPT), and configure the data flow between them. Make offers pre-built templates for common scenarios, and you can have your first automation running in minutes. No programming experience is required, though advanced users can create sophisticated multi-step workflows.

Automating OpenAI with Microsoft 365 Email through Make delivers significant ROI by reducing time spent on repetitive email tasks by up to 70%, enabling 24/7 automated responses to common inquiries, eliminating human error in routine communications, and allowing your team to focus on high-value activities. Make offers a free tier to get started, and paid plans scale with your usage. The combination of OpenAI's powerful language models and Outlook's business communication capabilities creates a competitive advantage through faster response times and consistent, professional communication quality.