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Send Email with hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com

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Send email using your Microsoft hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com account via the smtp.office365.com SMTP server.

See the Guide for Creating an Application to Send Email from Hotmail.com, Live.com, or Outlook.com

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Dim success As Boolean = False

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

Dim mailman As ChilkatMailMan
mailman.Initialize("mailman")

mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.office365.com"
mailman.SmtpPort = 587
mailman.StartTLS = True

'  This could be your hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com account.
mailman.SmtpUsername = "yourName@live.com"

'  Load the previously saved OAuth2 access token.
Dim json As ChilkatJsonObject
json.Initialize
success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/hotmail.json")
If success = False Then
    Log(json.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


mailman.OAuth2AccessToken = json.StringOf("access_token")

Dim email As ChilkatEmail
email.Initialize

'  Note: If you send an email such as this, it can easily go to your Junk or Trash email folders.
email.Subject = "This is a test"
email.Body = "This is a test"
'  This could be your hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com account.
email.From = "My Hotmail Account <yourName@live.com>"
success = email.AddTo("Joe Example", "joe@example.com")

success = mailman.OpenSmtpConnection
If success <> True Then
    Log(mailman.LastErrorText)
    Log("ConnectFailReason = " & mailman.ConnectFailReason)
    Return
End If


success = mailman.SmtpAuthenticate
If success <> True Then
    Log(mailman.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
If success <> True Then
    Log(mailman.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


mailman.CloseSmtpConnection

Log("Email Sent.")