(MFC) Send Email with Hotmail (live.com) -- smtp-mail.outlook.com

Demonstrates the SMTP settings required for sending email through Hotmail (A live.com email address). The Hotmail SMTP server is smtp-mail.outlook.com and receives connections on the SMTP port 587. It expects STARTTLS to establish an explicit TLS connection.

Note: When I first tested this code, I received the following error:

550 5.3.4 554-554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Deliver; delivery result banner

Mozilla Thunderbird also encountered the same error. I then started a browser, visited outlook.live.com, and logged in to my account. I probably hadn't done that for a very long time. I then retried running this example, and everything worked.

Also, it seems that the SMTP server hostname can be either "smtp-mail.outlook.com" or "smtp.live.com". Both worked.

Chilkat C/C++ Library Downloads MS Visual C/C++ Libs

See Also: Using MFC CString in Chilkat

#include <CkMailMan.h>
#include <CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkString strOut;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // The mailman object is used for sending (SMTP) and receiving (POP3) email.
    CkMailMan mailman;

    // Set the SMTP server.
    // Apparently, both "smtp-mail.outlook.com" and "smtp.live.com" are valid.
    mailman.put_SmtpHost("smtp.live.com");
    mailman.put_SmtpPort(587);

    // Set the SMTP login/password (if required)
    mailman.put_SmtpUsername("myLogin@live.com");
    mailman.put_SmtpPassword("MY-HOTMAIL-PASSWORD");

    // Create a new email object
    CkEmail email;

    email.put_Subject("This is a test");
    email.put_Body("This is a test");
    email.put_From("My Hotmail Account <myLogin@live.com>");
    bool success = email.AddTo("Chilkat Admin","admin@chilkatsoft.com");

    success = mailman.OpenSmtpConnection();
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(mailman.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        strOut.append("ConnectFailReason = ");
        strOut.appendInt(mailman.get_ConnectFailReason());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    success = mailman.SmtpAuthenticate();
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(mailman.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    success = mailman.SendEmail(email);
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append(mailman.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    mailman.CloseSmtpConnection();

    strOut.append("Email Sent.");
    strOut.append("\r\n");


    SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());

    }