(Visual Basic 6.0) 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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' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim mailman As New ChilkatMailMan

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

' 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 New ChilkatJsonObject
Dim success As Long
success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/hotmail.json")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print json.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

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

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail

' 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 <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print mailman.LastErrorText
    Debug.Print "ConnectFailReason = " & mailman.ConnectFailReason
    Exit Sub
End If

success = mailman.SmtpAuthenticate()
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print mailman.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print mailman.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection()

Debug.Print "Email Sent."