(PowerShell) 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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

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

$mailman = New-Object Chilkat.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.
$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$success = $json.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/hotmail.json")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($json.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

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

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email

# 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 -ne $true) {
    $($mailman.LastErrorText)
    $("ConnectFailReason = " + $mailman.ConnectFailReason)
    exit
}

$success = $mailman.SmtpAuthenticate()
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($mailman.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$success = $mailman.SendEmail($email)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($mailman.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$mailman.CloseSmtpConnection()

$("Email Sent.")