Visual FoxPro

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

See more SMTP Examples

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

Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loMailman
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL loEmail

lnSuccess = 0

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

loMailman = CreateObject('Chilkat.MailMan')

loMailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.office365.com"
loMailman.SmtpPort = 587
loMailman.StartTLS = 1

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

* Load the previously saved OAuth2 access token.
loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
lnSuccess = loJson.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/hotmail.json")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loJson.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loJson
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loMailman.OAuth2AccessToken = loJson.StringOf("access_token")

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')

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

lnSuccess = loMailman.OpenSmtpConnection()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loMailman.LastErrorText
    ? "ConnectFailReason = " + STR(loMailman.ConnectFailReason)
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loMailman.SmtpAuthenticate()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loMailman.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loMailman.SendEmail(loEmail)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loMailman.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loMailman
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loMailman.CloseSmtpConnection()

? "Email Sent."

RELEASE loMailman
RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loEmail