VB.NET

Office365 IMAP OAuth2 with Shared Mailbox

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Demonstrates how to authenticate using OAuth2 with shared mailboxes in outlook.office365.com. (SASL XOAUTH2 authentication for shared mailboxes in Office 365) VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = False

' 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.
Dim jsonToken As New Chilkat.JsonObject
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/office365.json")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed to open the office365 OAuth JSON file.")
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim imap As New Chilkat.Imap

imap.Ssl = True
imap.Port = 993

' Connect to the Office365 IMAP server.
success = imap.Connect("outlook.office365.com")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Use OAuth2 authentication.
imap.AuthMethod = "XOAUTH2"

' In case of shared mailbox access using OAuth, application needs to obtain the access token on behalf of a user
' but replace the userName field in the SASL XOAUTH2 encoded string 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.
' This will cause the SASL XOAUTH2 format to be used, as described at Office 365 SASL XOAUTH2 format 

success = imap.Login("SHARED_MAILBOX_EMAIL_ADDRESS",jsonToken.StringOf("access_token"))
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Debug.WriteLine("O365 OAuth2 shared mailbox authentication is successful.")

' Do something...
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(imap.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Your application can continue to do other things in the IMAP session....

' When finished, logout and close the connection.
success = imap.Logout()
success = imap.Disconnect()

Debug.WriteLine("Finished.")