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Overview

PhixFlow supports fetching and sending emails through Microsoft Office 365 Outlook and Google accounts. This page describes the setup required for both.


System Configuration Setup in PhixFlow

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    1. Check the System URL field is set to the public URL PhixFlow is accessed on by users
      1. For example, http://phixflowhost.com/phixflow/
  2. Ensure the secure flag is set on cookies, see Install Tomcat

Host's Application Configuration

Microsoft Office 365 Settings

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An Office 365 Administrator is required to perform the following step to enable a PhixFlow instance to interact with Microsoft Office 365 Outlook.

  1. Open the Microsoft Entra Admin Center at https://entra.microsoft.com/#home
  2. Select ApplicationsApp Registrations
  3. Click New Registration
    1. Name: PhixFlow O365 Integration, or another appropriate value
    2. Supported Account types: Choose Accounts in this organizational directory only
    3. Redirect URI:
      1. Select a Platform: Web 
      2. URL: SystemURL+receiveTokenAuthentication.htm
        e.g. http://phixflowhost.com/phixflow/receiveTokenAuthentication.htm
  4. Click Register
  5. Take a note of the Application (client ID)
  6. Click Add a certificate or secret
  7. Click New client secret
    1. Give the certificate a name
    2. Set the expires time, after which the secret has to be refreshed. Either use the default 180 days, or pick an alternative value such as 730 days.
      1. Ensure you create a new the secret before it expires.
    3. Press Add
    4. Take a note of the value, this is the Client Secret 

Google Settings

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  1. Configure the application in Azure, Google Developer or similar
    1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/legacy-protocols/how-to-authenticate-an-imap-pop-smtp-application-by-using-oauth
    2. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/connect-gmail-oauth2
  2. Configuration parameters
  3. The application type is Web
  4. The redirect URL is yourPhixFlowInstance/receiveTokenAuthentication.htm
    1. For example, http://phixflowhost.com/phixflow/receiveTokenAuthentication.htm

Client Token Configuration in PhixFlow

Client Token Configurations are created in PhixFlow from the Full Repository.

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Create an Email Account in PhixFlow

  1. Create an Email Account in the Full Repository
    1. In PhixFlow version 11.3+, this can be done from the application's repository
  2. Toggle on Enabled
  3. Set the Type to Inbound or Outbound depending on your requirements

Microsoft Office 365 Settings

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For an inbound email account:

  1. Set Host to outlook.office365.com
  2. Set the Protocol to Microsoft
  3. After setting the Authorisation Type, set the Login to the account email address 
  4. Set the On Email Received
  5. Select your Client Token Configuration
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     Authenticate Email Account to perform the authentication process which provides access to your Microsoft account

Google Settings

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  1. Set Host to imap.gmail.com
  2. Set the Protocol to IMAP
  3. Set Authorisation Type to OAuth2
  4. Select your Client Token Configuration
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    1. POP, IMAP, and SMTP settings for Outlook.com - Microsoft Support
    2. For POP Outlook add to the properties mail.pop3s.auth.xoauth2.two.line.authentication.format=true