get-mail-tips
Get the MailTips of one or more recipients as available to the signed-in user. Note that by making a POST call to the getMailTips action, you can request specific types of MailTips to be returned for more than one recipient at one time. The requested MailTips are returned in a mailTips collection...
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What get-mail-tips does on Ms 365
AI agents call get-mail-tips to retrieve information from Ms 365 without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
body | object | Yes | |
includeHeaders | boolean | — | Include response headers (including ETag) in the response metadata |
excludeResponse | boolean | — | Exclude the full response body and only return success or failure indication |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why get-mail-tips is rated Low
Even though get-mail-tips only reads data, uncontrolled read access leaks sensitive information and racks up API costs: an agent caught in a retry loop can make thousands of calls a minute without anyone noticing.
Risk signalsAccepts raw HTML/template content (body)
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
The rule that runs get-mail-tips safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Ms 365, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For get-mail-tips, this is the rule to start with:
get-mail-tips is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Ms 365, apply this rule, and every get-mail-tips call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about get-mail-tips
Get the MailTips of one or more recipients as available to the signed-in user. Note that by making a POST call to the getMailTips action, you can request specific types of MailTips to be returned for more than one recipient at one time. The requested MailTips are returned in a mailTips collection. 💡 TIP: Looks up MailTips for one or more recipients before sending an email — answers 'is this person on auto-reply / OOF?', 'will my email exceed their mailbox quota?', 'are they an external recipient?', 'is this a mailbox or distribution list?'. Body: { EmailAddresses: ['user@contoso.com', ...], MailTipsOptions: 'automaticReplies, mailboxFullStatus, customMailTip, externalMemberCount, totalMemberCount, maxMessageSize, deliveryRestriction, moderationStatus, recipientScope, recipientSuggestions' (comma-separated subset) }. Returns mailTips per recipient with the requested fields populated. Use this to short-circuit urgent emails when a recipient is OOF, or to warn before fanning out to a large DL. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Ms 365 MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
get-mail-tips accepts 3 parameters: body, includeHeaders, excludeResponse. Required: body. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Ms 365 MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get-mail-tips: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Ms 365. Nothing to install.
get-mail-tips is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get-mail-tips rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get-mail-tips. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get-mail-tips is provided by the Ms 365 MCP server (@jo3zik/ms-365-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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