# How to Connect Microsoft Outlook
To connect with the Microsoft Outlook SMTP server, you can use either a Microsoft personal account (Outlook, Hotmail or Live email account) or Microsoft 365 business account.
In this tutorial, you'll accomplish this integration by following just these 4 basic steps:
1. Create a Web App in your Microsoft account
2. Create Client secrets
3. Add API permissions
4. Authorize Microsoft Outlook SMTP
Let's get started!
#### 1. Create a Web App in your Microsoft account
First, you visit [Home - Microsoft Azure](https://portal.azure.com/#home) page, then you click "**More services**".
On the next screen, you click into "**Identity**" and then choose "**Microsoft Entra ID**".
On the next screen, you click into "**App registrations**".
On the next screen, you click into "**New registration**".
Then, you will see **Register an application** page, You need to fill all the necessary information as in the image below, then click **Register** button to create a new application.
**Note**: With "Redirect URI" field, you go back to the YaySMTP settings screen in your website and make sure you press **Enter** to add it too (as image below).
#### 2. Create Client secrets
Then, you see Application page, copy Application (client) ID (as image below) and paste into **Client ID** field of YaySMTP settings on your website.
On the service panel left sidebar, find **Certificates & secrets**, then click into **New client secret** to create Secret ID (as image below).
After click into "**New client secret**" button, you will see an "**Add a client secret**" popup, enter "**Description"** field and choose "**Expires"** field, then you click "**Add"** button to complete.
After creating a client secret, you will see a **Client secrets** item. Copy its value and paste into **Client Secret** field of YaySMTP on your website.
#### 3. Add API permissions
In this step, choose **API permissions**, then click into **Add a permission,** then it will show **Select an API** popup(as image below), you choose **Microsoft Graph**.
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Then, choose **Delegated permissions** option.
Then, type "mail" text to search **Mail** permission and choose "**Mail.Read.Shared**" option (as image below), then click "**Add permissions"** button.
Next, you’ll need to go through this permissions process once more and choose **Application permissions** option.
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Next, you choose "**Mail.Send**" option (as image below), then click "**Add permissions"** button.
#### 4. Authorize Microsoft Outlook SMTP
In this step, all you need to do is to re-confirm all the input fields.
Add them to the appropriate settings fields of YaySMTP, click **"Save Changes".**\
Then click on "**Confirm Authorization**" button to authorize the Microsoft app.
Here you choose the email account that you've just used to create the app. Keep clicking on **"Allow"** button until the authorization process is completed.
Now you have successfully integrate Microsoft Outlook SMTP server into your WordPress site!
Happy Sending!
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