Add Microsoft Graph (OAuth2) as an outbound email provider - #9772
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Microsoft 365 tenants increasingly disable legacy/basic SMTP auth, which leaves self-hosted Plane instances unable to send email through an Outlook/M365 mailbox (535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful) even with correct credentials. Adds an opt-in EMAIL_PROVIDER=MICROSOFT_GRAPH instance configuration that sends mail via Microsoft Graph's sendMail endpoint using an OAuth2 client-credentials token, instead of basic SMTP auth. PlaneEmailBackend transparently falls back to the existing SMTP backend unless a tenant explicitly opts in, so behavior is unchanged for everyone else. Refs makeplane#9771
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5 components touched across 3 lanes. Inside the changed components — 1 viewComponent view — Email backend routing Internal components for routing emails to Microsoft Graph or SMTP 
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds Microsoft Graph OAuth2 email delivery as an alternative to SMTP. The custom Django backend selects Graph or SMTP from instance configuration. The change includes Graph payload handling, encrypted client-secret configuration, attachment serialization, and unit tests. ChangesMicrosoft Graph email delivery
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Microsoft Graph email delivery can fail an entire outbound batch when it contains a message with no recipients, potentially preventing later valid messages from being sent. Add the recipient guard and regression coverage before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DjangoMailCaller
participant PlaneEmailBackend
participant MicrosoftIdentityPlatform
participant MicrosoftGraph
DjangoMailCaller->>PlaneEmailBackend: send_messages(email_messages)
PlaneEmailBackend->>MicrosoftIdentityPlatform: Request client-credentials token
MicrosoftIdentityPlatform-->>PlaneEmailBackend: Return access token
PlaneEmailBackend->>MicrosoftGraph: POST users/{sender}/sendMail with bearer token
MicrosoftGraph-->>PlaneEmailBackend: Return send response
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The Graph payload currently sends an incorrect type for saveToSentItems and drops Django file attachments, which can break existing email flows (e.g., CSV export emails) when Graph is enabled.
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Pull request overview
Adds an opt-in outbound email provider that can route mail through Microsoft Graph OAuth2 (client-credentials) while preserving existing SMTP behavior for instances that don’t opt in.
Changes:
- Introduces
PlaneEmailBackendas the default DjangoEMAIL_BACKEND, delegating to SMTP unlessEMAIL_PROVIDER=MICROSOFT_GRAPH. - Adds Microsoft Graph helper utilities for token acquisition and
sendMailcalls, plus instance-config keys for tenant/client credentials. - Adds unit tests for both the Graph helper and the new backend routing logic.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| apps/api/plane/utils/instance_config_variables/core.py | Adds new instance configuration keys for selecting Graph vs SMTP and storing Graph OAuth credentials. |
| apps/api/plane/settings/common.py | Switches default EMAIL_BACKEND to PlaneEmailBackend for provider-based routing. |
| apps/api/plane/license/utils/instance_value.py | Adds helper to read Graph-related email configuration from env/DB. |
| apps/api/plane/license/utils/graph_mail.py | Implements Graph token acquisition, payload building, and sendMail request. |
| apps/api/plane/license/utils/email_backend.py | Adds a backend that routes email via Graph or falls back to SMTP. |
| apps/api/plane/tests/unit/utils/test_graph_mail.py | Adds unit tests for Graph token acquisition, payload building, and sending. |
| apps/api/plane/tests/unit/utils/test_email_backend.py | Adds unit tests for SMTP fallback, Graph routing, and fail_silently behavior. |
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- Serialize Django EmailMessage attachments (e.g. the analytics CSV export) into Graph fileAttachment entries instead of silently dropping them. - Send saveToSentItems as a JSON boolean, matching the Graph API spec. - Raise ImproperlyConfigured (or return 0 when fail_silently) when EMAIL_PROVIDER=MICROSOFT_GRAPH is selected but tenant/client/secret/ sender is incomplete, instead of failing with a low-signal error. - Use consistent "" defaults for the Graph config keys.
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51-53: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winSkip messages with no recipients before sending through Graph.
PlaneEmailBackend.send_messagessends every message tosend_graph_email, whilebuild_graph_messageserializes empty recipient lists. Addif not message.recipients(): continueand a regression test. Microsoft Graph can reject this request, andfail_silently=Falsere-raises the error before the remaining messages are processed.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/api/plane/license/utils/email_backend.py`:
- Around line 51-53: Update PlaneEmailBackend.send_messages to skip any message
whose recipients() result is empty before calling send_graph_email, while
preserving processing of subsequent messages. Add a regression test covering an
empty-recipient message and confirming it is not sent.
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Update: verified end-to-end against a real Microsoft 365 tenant today. Once the Exchange Online Application Access Policy scoping the app to the sending mailbox took effect, a real email was sent successfully via Graph ( |
Fixes #9771
Summary
535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful), regardless of correct credentials.EMAIL_PROVIDER=MICROSOFT_GRAPHinstance configuration that sends mail via Microsoft Graph'ssendMailendpoint using an OAuth2 client-credentials token (Azure AD app registration withMail.Sendapplication permission), instead of basic SMTP auth.PlaneEmailBackend(the newEMAIL_BACKEND) transparently delegates to Django's existing SMTP backend unless an instance explicitly setsEMAIL_PROVIDER=MICROSOFT_GRAPH— every existing call site (magic link, invites, notifications, etc.) is unchanged, and default behavior for existing SMTP-configured instances is identical to before.InstanceConfigurationkeys, same pattern as the existing SMTP keys:EMAIL_PROVIDER(defaultSMTP),EMAIL_GRAPH_TENANT_ID,EMAIL_GRAPH_CLIENT_ID,EMAIL_GRAPH_CLIENT_SECRET(encrypted). No new admin UI in this pass — configurable the same way SMTP credentials are today (instance configuration API/DB rows).requestsis already used elsewhere in the codebase.Test plan
graph_mail.py(token acquisition, message payload building, send call) andemail_backend.py(SMTP fallback, Graph routing, fail_silently behavior) — 11 tests, all passing viadocker compose -f docker-compose-test.yml run --rm api-tests pytest plane/tests/unit/utils/test_graph_mail.py plane/tests/unit/utils/test_email_backend.pysendMailis pending the tenant's Exchange Online Application Access Policy being scoped to the sending mailbox (a required one-time admin action on the Microsoft 365 side, unrelated to this code)Summary by CodeRabbit
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