Connecting Your Outlook or Office 365 Email to Slack

With SharedInbox, you can connect and manage an Outlook or Office 365 email in your Slack workspace. This could be an outlook.com personal email account, for example [email protected], or email on your own company or custom domain that you have hosted through Office 365, such as [email protected], [email protected], etc…

Once you’ve connected your Outlook/Office 365 email to a Slack channel, you’ll be able to receive incoming mail, reply to email, compose new mail, and assign and track emails as tasks to your team members all within Slack! 🚀

Steps to Connect an Outlook/Office 365 Email to Slack #

1. Go to the Connect an Email page or click Connect+ from the dashboard sidebar.
   
   You will be redirected to the Microsoft Sign in page.
2. Sign in with your Microsoft Outlook/Office 365 email account
   
   After signing in, click Accept to approve Outlook access for SharedInbox:
   
3. Complete your Setup
   
   For the last step, add the following:
   • Your Name (Optional): This is the sender name that shows up when people receive email from you. You can leave it as the default or change it.
   • Slack Channel: The Slack channel to manage your email from. This can be a private or public Slack channel. For private channels, note you’ll need to also invite the @SharedInbox app to the channel (more info here).
4. Your email is now connected! You should see a final screen like this: