Outlook SNDS MCP

An MCP server that brings the Outlook.com Smart Network Data Services (SNDS) REST API into Claude / Cowork / Claude Desktop and any other MCP client.

Sign in once with your Microsoft account — the server handles the full OAuth 2.0 authorization-code + PKCE flow over a loopback (http://localhost) redirect, caches the tokens, and refreshes them automatically. Then just ask for your IP reputation data.

SNDS gives senders per-IP insight into how Outlook.com sees their mail: volume, complaint rates, spam-filter verdicts, trap hits, and block/bot status.

Built & maintained by the Postmaster+ team at OptiPub.

Install

From a release (recommended)

1. Download outlook-snds.mcpb from the latest release.
2. In Cowork / Claude Desktop: Settings → Capabilities → install extension, pick the file (or just double-click it).
3. No configuration required.

From source — see Build.

Use with other MCP clients (Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, …)

The .mcpb is just a packaging convenience for Claude Desktop / Cowork. Underneath, this is a standard stdio MCP server, so any client that runs local MCP servers can use it directly — no .mcpb required. Just point the client at server/index.js.

Clone or download the repo first, then add a server entry:

Cursor — edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (per project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "outlook-snds": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/outlook-snds-mcp/server/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json), Windsurf, Claude Desktop (manual config), and most other clients use the same command + args shape — only the config file location differs. Optional environment overrides (see Configuration) go in an "env": { ... } object.

The first tool call opens your browser for the SNDS sign-in, exactly as in Cowork — the localhost OAuth loopback works on any local desktop client.

Remote-only clients (e.g. Perplexity, ChatGPT connectors): these accept only a remote HTTPS MCP server URL, not a local command, so this stdio build can't be added directly. Using it there would require hosting it as a remote server with a web-based OAuth redirect.

Usage

Run snds_authenticate once (your browser opens for a Microsoft sign-in), then:

get_data_report takes an optional date (yyyy-MM-dd) and an optional ip (IPv4). A date is required to filter by IP, because the API path is /api/report/data/{date}/{ip}.

How authentication works

On sign-in the server starts a short-lived HTTP listener on 127.0.0.1, opens your browser to the Microsoft login, receives the authorization code on the loopback URL, and exchanges it (with the PKCE code verifier) for tokens.

No secrets ship in this repo. It's a public OAuth client using PKCE — there is no client secret. Tokens are stored only on your machine at ~/.snds-mcp/tokens.json with 0600 permissions, and are git-ignored.

REST endpoints wrapped

Base URL: https://substrate.office.com/ip-domain-management-snds

• GET /api/report/data/{date?}/{ip?} — IP Data report
• GET /api/report/status/ip — IP Status report

Configuration (optional)

Everything defaults to the SNDS portal values. Override via environment variables if you need to:

Build

Requires Node 18+.

npx @anthropic-ai/mcpb validate manifest.json
npx @anthropic-ai/mcpb pack . outlook-snds.mcpb

Pushing a tag like v1.0.0 triggers CI to validate, pack, and attach the .mcpb to a GitHub Release automatically (see .github/workflows/release.yml).

Why zero dependencies

The runtime uses only Node.js built-ins (http, https, crypto, readline). That keeps the bundle tiny (~11 KB), removes supply-chain risk, and means there's nothing to npm install at runtime.

Contributing

PRs and issues welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT © OptiPub

Not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. "Outlook", "Outlook.com", and "SNDS" are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.