Microsoft 365
Connecting Microsoft brings your Outlook mail and Microsoft 365 calendar into Bitment. As with Google, mail and calendar are two independent grants rather than one unified connection, each connected, reconnected, or removed on its own.
Where to find it
Settings › Connections › Microsoft. The same connect controls also live inside the Emails app (under Manage accounts) and inside Calendar, whichever you reach first.
Key concepts
- Mail grant: access to one Outlook mailbox. Powers the Emails app.
- Calendar grant: access to your Microsoft 365 calendar. Powers the Calendar app.
- A single Microsoft account can hold both grants, or just one; you can connect several accounts, one grant at a time each.
Connect Outlook mail
- Open Emails from the dock, or Settings › Connections › Microsoft.
- Click + Add account (in Emails) and choose Microsoft 365.
- Sign in on Microsoft's own page and grant access. You'll land back in Bitment, connected.
Your existing Outlook folders come across with the account and appear under Folders in the Emails app's folder drawer. Microsoft gives no way to read an existing signature programmatically, so on Outlook accounts you write your signature directly in Bitment instead of it importing automatically.
Connect a Microsoft 365 calendar
- Open Calendar from the dock, or Settings › Connections › Microsoft.
- Follow the connect prompt, or go to Calendar's own Settings › Connected accounts.
- Sign in on Microsoft's page.
Once connected, every calendar on that account appears in Calendar's sidebar, grouped by category, with per-calendar visibility toggles and color overrides.
What shows up where
- Emails: your Outlook inbox, sent mail, and folders, with split inboxes, search, and an AI panel that can read and triage on your behalf.
- Calendar: every calendar on the connected account, side-by-side team availability, and video conferencing through Microsoft Teams on Microsoft calendars.
Video conferencing
On a Microsoft 365 calendar, Microsoft Teams is available as the video-conferencing choice for events and booking links, and is the default; Google Meet is greyed out there. A personal Outlook.com account, or a Microsoft plan with no Teams license, can't create Teams meetings at all, so on those calendars the event saves without a video link. Once an event has a Teams meeting attached, it can't be removed; delete the event and recreate it instead.
If it stops syncing
Microsoft revokes Bitment's access whenever the underlying sign-in changes, most often after a password change, but also if an admin revokes sessions or you remove Bitment from your account's connected apps. You'll get a notification and a reconnect banner on the affected account. Sign in again and syncing resumes from where it stopped; nothing already synced is lost.
Mail and calendar connect separately, even for the same Microsoft account. If a password change knocks out both, reconnecting your mailbox doesn't reconnect your calendar; reconnect each from its own app.
Disconnect
Remove an account from the gear menu next to the account tabs in Emails, or from the Connected accounts section in Calendar. Removing a mail account deletes the mail synced from that mailbox; removing a calendar account stops showing its events. Neither touches the underlying Microsoft account itself.