[Feature Request] Integrate Microsoft Outlook Mail toolkit into Eigent

[Tanuj-Taneja1]

Motivation

To add recently created Microsoft Outlook Mail toolkit from camel-ai to Eigent

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[Tanuj-Taneja1]

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[eureka928]

@Wendong-Fan this will be reasonable feature for Eigent?

[Wendong-Fan]

thanks @Tanuj-Taneja1 for opening this issue, outlook email would be a cool feature to add to eigent, maybe @Tanuj-Taneja1 could lead the implementation, @eureka928 could help reviewing this later

[Wendong-Fan]

hey @Tanuj-Taneja1 , just a quick catch up, any update on this issue or anything we could support?

[Tanuj-Taneja1]

Hi @Wendong-Fan I think I could use some help regarding the auth logic

Context (important):

I originally implemented the Outlook Mail toolkit with authentication logic inside the toolkit. While working on Calendar Outlook toolkit, I realised the auth logic can be separated from the toolkit so it can be reused (This pr is still under review) . The next step was to refactor the original Outlook Mail toolkit to follow the same pattern.

Problem:

The Mail toolkit hardcodes authentication by calling _authenticate() inside init. While _authenticate() can technically be overridden (Google Calendar does this), this would cause issues if I or someone else changes the code in mail toolkit in camel-ai.

Current implementation (Calendar toolkit):

def __init__():
    authenticator = MicrosoftAuthenticator(
        scopes=self.scopes,
        refresh_token_file_path=token_path,
    )
    self.credentials = authenticator.authenticate()  # mail toolkit hardcodes it with internal authenticate method

Good News:

We can just inject the CustomAuthenticator class to the init which would allow users and us in this case to handle auth logic for our use case. Also it would mean we can just create a single OutlookAuthenticator class in eigent and use it in multiple outlook toolkits.
Also this idea is backwards compatible.

Reference:

The pending PR (Outlook Calendar toolkit): camel-ai/camel#3553
I will add the authenticator injection logic in this pr itself if you like the idea and then refractor the mail toolkit too.

[Tanuj-Taneja1]

TLDR : I want to get this pr merged first camel-ai/camel#3553 , then refractor the mail toolkit to allow customisable auth . As it would be easy to maintain and the eigent toolkit wont break when someone changes the camel toolkit.

Whenever the issue gets merged feel free to ping me