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Office365 Send Email from Shared Mailbox

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Demonstrates how to send email from a shared mailbox, from smtp.office365.com using OAuth2 authentication.

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<?php

$success = 0;

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

// An Office365 OAuth2 access token must first be obtained prior
// to running this code.

// Getting the OAuth2 access token for the 1st time requires the O365 account owner's 
// interactive authorizaition via a web browser.  Afterwards, the access token
// can be repeatedly refreshed automatically.

// See the following examples for getting and refreshing an OAuth2 access token

// Get Office365 SMTP/IMAP/POP3 OAuth2 Access Token
// Refresh Office365 SMTP/IMAP/POP3 OAuth2 Access Token

// First get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
$jsonToken = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$success = $jsonToken->LoadFile('qa_data/tokens/office365.json');

$mailman = new COM("Chilkat.MailMan");

$mailman->SmtpHost = 'smtp.office365.com';
$mailman->SmtpPort = 587;
$mailman->StartTLS = 1;

// In case of shared mailbox access using OAuth, the application needs to obtain the access token on behalf of a user
// but replace the SMTP username with the email address of the shared mailbox.

// Login using the shared mailbox email address for the username, and the access token for the password.
// See Office 365 SASL XOAUTH2 format 

// Use your Office365 email address for the SmtpUsername.
$mailman->SmtpUsername = 'SHARED_MAILBOX_EMAIL_ADDRESS';
$mailman->OAuth2AccessToken = $jsonToken->stringOf('access_token');

// Create a new email object
$email = new COM("Chilkat.Email");

$email->Subject = 'This is a test';
$email->Body = 'This is a test';
$email->From = 'MY_NAME <SHARED_MAILBOX_EMAIL_ADDRESS>';
$success = $email->AddTo('John Doe','somebody@example.com');

// Call SendEmail to connect to the SMTP server and send.
// The connection (i.e. session) to the SMTP server remains
// open so that subsequent SendEmail calls may use the
// same connection.  
$success = $mailman->SendEmail($email);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $mailman->CloseSmtpConnection();
if ($success != 1) {
    print 'Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.' . "\n";
}

print 'Mail Sent!' . "\n";

?>