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VB6/ASP - Send email using Microsoft OAuth 2.0 (Modern Authentication) + SMTP/EWS/Ms Graph API protocol from Office 365 account

You can send email using traditional user/password authentication from Office 365 account by SMTP/EWS Protocol.

However Microsoft will disable traditional user authentication in the future, switching to Microsoft OAuth (Modern Authentication) is strongly recommended now.

Installation

EASendMail is a SMTP component which supports all operations of SMTP/ESMTP protocols (RFC 821, RFC 822, RFC 2554). Before you can use the following example codes, you should download the EASendMail Installer and install it on your machine at first.

Add reference in VB6

To use EASendMail SMTP ActiveX Object in your project, the first step is “Add reference of EASendMail to your project”. Please select menu -> Project -> References -> and select EASendMailObj ActiveX Object, click OK, the reference will be added to current project, and you can start to use it to send email in your VB6 project.

Add reference in VBA (EXCEL/Access/Outlook)

Open VBA IDE by press Alt+F11, Please select menu -> Tools -> References -> and select EASendMailObj ActiveX Object, click OK, the reference will be added to current VBA project, and you can start to use it to send email in your VBA project.

add reference in VB 6.0

Create your application in Azure Portal

To use Microsoft/Office365/Live OAuth (Modern Authentication) in your application, you must create a application in Azure Portal.

  • Sign in to the Azure portal using either a work or school account or a personal Microsoft account.
  • If your account gives you access to more than one tenant, select your account in the top right corner, and set your portal session to the Azure AD tenant that you want.

Search Microsoft Entra ID (old name “Azure Active Directory”) and go to this service:

go to azure active directory

Register application

In the left-hand navigation pane, select the Microsoft Entra ID service, and then select -> Manage -> App registrations -> New registration.

register app in azure

Input a name to to register the application:

register app in azure

Single tenant and multitenant in account type

When the register an application page appears, enter a meaningful application name and select the account type.

Select which accounts you would like your application to support.

  • If your application only supports the users in your directory or organization, please select Single tenant type;
  • If your application needs to support all users in Office 365 and Microsoft personal account (hotmail.com, outlook.com), please select Multitenant type, and you must verify publisher.

Because we want to support all Office 365 and LIVE SDK (hotmail, outlook personal account), so select Accounts in any organizational directory and personal Microsoft accounts.

Important

If you don’t verify publisher for multitenant application, your application will not request access token successfully.

Assign API permission

Now you need to assign API permission to the application by clicking Manage -> API Permission -> Add a permission.

add api permission to app in azure

You don’t have to assign all the API permissions below to the application, just assign the API permission(s) you need.

Protocol Permission Scope
Graph API Mail.Send, Mail.ReadWrite https://graph.microsoft.com/Mail.Send, https://graph.microsoft.com/Mail.ReadWrite
EWS EWS.AccessAsUser.All https://outlook.office.com/EWS.AccessAsUser.All
SMTP SMTP.Send https://outlook.office365.com/SMTP.Send
POP POP.AccessAsUser.All https://outlook.office365.com/POP.AccessAsUser.All
IMAP IMAP.AccessAsUser.All https://outlook.office365.com/IMAP.AccessAsUser.All

Now we need to add permission to the application:

  • Click Manage -> API Permission ->
  • Add a permission -> Microsoft Graph -> Delegated Permission -> User.Read, email, offline_access, openid, profile, SMTP.Send, IMAP.AccessAsUser.All, POP.AccessAsUser.All, Mail.Send, Mail.ReadWrite.
azure application SMTP/POP/IMAP api permission

EWS API permission

With the above permissions, your application can support SMTP, POP, IMAP and Ms Graph API service. If your application needs to support EWS protocol either, add EWS permission like this:

  • Click Manage -> API Permission ->
  • Add a permission -> APIs in my organization uses -> Office 365 Exchange Online -> Delegated Permission -> Check EWS.AccessAsUser.All
azure APIs in my organization uses

Here is permissions list:

azure application api permission list

Authentication and redirect uri

Because the example code is based on desktop application, so add Redirect Uri like this:

  • Click Manage -> "Authentication" -> Add a platform -> Mobile and desktop applications -> Redirect Uri, please check or add the following URI.

    https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/nativeclient
https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/nativeclient
http://127.0.0.1

    Note

    • https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/nativeclient is used for Live SDK, http://127.0.0.1 is used for local Http Listener.

  • If your application needs to support Microsoft personal account, set both "Live SDK Support" and "Treat application as a public client" to "Yes".

azure application Authentication Overview

Client Id and client secrets

Now we need to create a client secret for the application, click Manage -> Certificates and secrets -> client secrets and add a new client secret.

azure application api permission

After client secret is created, store the client secret value to somewhere.

Important

Please store client secret value by yourself, because it is hidden when you view it at next time.

Branding and verify publisher

Now we click Branding, you can edit your company logo, URL and application name. If your application supports multitenant (access user in all Office 365 and Microsoft personal account), you must complete the publisher verification.

It is not difficult, you can have a look at publisher verification. After publisher verification is completed, your branding is like this:

azure application Authentication Overview

Important

You must complete the publisher verification for multitenant application, otherwise, your application will not request access token correctly.

Client id and tenant

Now you can click Overview to find your client id and tenant.

azure application client id and tenant
  • If your application is single tenant, use the tenant value in tokenUri and authUri instead of common.
  • If your application is multitenant, use common as tenant.

Above client id and client secret support both "Office365 + SMTP/EWS" and "Live (hotmail, outlook personal account) + SMTP".

Enable TLS Strong Encryption Algorithms in .NET 2.0 and .NET 4.0

Because HttpWebRequest is used to get access token from web service. If you’re using .NET framework (.NET 2.0 - 3.5 and .NET 4.x), you need to enable Strong Encryption Algorithms to request access token:

Put the following content to a file named NetStrongEncrypt.reg, right-click this file -> Merge -> Yes. You can also download it from https://www.emailarchitect.net/webapp/download/NetStrongEncrypt.zip.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v2.0.50727]
"SystemDefaultTlsVersions"=dword:00000001
"SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v2.0.50727]
"SystemDefaultTlsVersions"=dword:00000001
"SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319]
"SystemDefaultTlsVersions"=dword:00000001
"SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319]
"SystemDefaultTlsVersions"=dword:00000001
"SchUseStrongCrypto"=dword:00000001

Use client id and client secret to request access token

You can use client id and client secret to get the user email address and access token like this:

  • Your application uses a web browser/browser control to open Oauth Url;
  • User inputs user and password in web authentication page, and then the Oauth server returns access token back to your application;
  • Your application uses access token to access resource on the server.
  • You can find full example codes in EASendMail Installation Path\Samples_{Programming language/Developer Tool}\Oauth project.

Access token expiration and refresh token

You don’t have to open browser to request access token every time. By default, access token expiration time is 3600 seconds, you can use the access token repeatedly before it is expired. After it is expired, you can use refresh token to refresh access token directly without opening browser. You can find full sample project in EASendMail installation path to learn how to refresh token.

Important

You should create your client id and client secret, do not use the client id from example codes in production environment, it is used for test purpose. If you got "This app isn't verified" information, please click "Advanced" -> Go to ... for test.

VB6 - Send email using Microsoft OAuth + Office 365 SMTP protocol

Here is a simple application which demonstrates how to use Microsoft OAuth to do user authentication and send email with SMTP protocol.

Note

This sample cannot handle the event of Web Browser is closed by user manually before authentication is completed. You can refer to the better sample project which uses Web Browser Control in EASendMail installation path.

Option Explicit

Const ConnectNormal = 0
Const ConnectSSLAuto = 1
Const ConnectSTARTTLS = 2
Const ConnectDirectSSL = 3
Const ConnectTryTLS = 4

Const AuthAuto = -1
Const AuthLogin = 0
Const AuthNtlm = 1
Const AuthCramMd5 = 2
Const AuthPlain = 3
Const AuthMsn = 4
Const AuthXoauth2 = 5

' client configuration
' You should create your client id and client secret,
' do not use the following client id in production environment, it is used for test purpose only.
Const clientID = "eccbabb2-3377-4265-85c1-ea2fb515f075"
Const clientSecret = "QaR_RR:-5WqTY[nni9pdBr9xVybqrAu4"
' set SMTP scopde
Const scope = "https://outlook.office.com/SMTP.Send%20offline_access%20email%20openid"

Const authUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize"
Const tokenUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token"

' if your application is single tenant, please use tenant id instead of common in authUri and tokenUri
' for example, your tenant is 669595d0-a4d7-47c5-8040-cf9970400e48, then
' Const authUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/669595d0-a4d7-47c5-8040-cf9970400e48/oauth2/v2.0/authorize"
' Const tokenUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/669595d0-a4d7-47c5-8040-cf9970400e48/oauth2/v2.0/token"

Public Sub DoOauthAndSendEmail()

    Dim httpListener As New EASendMailObjLib.httpListener

    ' Creates a redirect URI using an available port on the loopback address.
    If Not httpListener.Create("127.0.0.1", 0) Then
        Debug.Print "Failed to listen on " & httpListener.GetLastError()
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Dim szUri
    szUri = "http://127.0.0.1:" & httpListener.ListenPort

    Debug.Print "listen on " & szUri

    ' Creates the OAuth 2.0 authorization request.
    Dim authorizationRequest
    authorizationRequest = authUri
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "?response_type=code&scope="
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & scope
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "&redirect_uri="
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & szUri
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "&client_id="
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & clientID
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "&prompt=login"

    Debug.Print "open " & authorizationRequest
    ' Opens request in the browser.
    Dim browserUi As New EASendMailObjLib.browserUi
    browserUi.OpenUrl authorizationRequest

    ' Waits for the OAuth authorization response.
    Do While True
        If Not httpListener.GetRequestUrl(100) Then
            Debug.Print "Failed to wait:"
            Debug.Print httpListener.GetLastError()
            Exit Do
        End If

        If httpListener.RequestUrl <> "" Then
            Exit Do
        End If

        DoEvents
    Loop

    ' Send response and stop http listener.
    httpListener.SendResponse "200", "text/html; charset=utf-8", "<html><head></head><body>Please return to the app and close current window.</body></html>"
    httpListener.Close

    Dim requestUri
    requestUri = httpListener.RequestUrl
    Debug.Print "RequestUri: " & requestUri

    Dim errorCode
    ' Checks for errors.
    errorCode = ParseParameter(requestUri, "error=")
    If errorCode <> "" Then
        Debug.Print "OAuth authorization error: " & errorCode
        Exit Sub
    End If

    ' Check authorization code
    Dim code
    code = ParseParameter(requestUri, "code=")
    If code = "" Then
        Debug.Print "Malformed authorization response: " & requestUri
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Debug.Print "Authorization code: " & code

    Dim responseText
    responseText = RequestAccessToken(code, szUri)
    Debug.Print responseText

    Dim parser As New EASendMailObjLib.OAuthResponseParser
    parser.Load responseText

    Dim user, accessToken

    user = parser.EmailInIdToken
    accessToken = parser.accessToken

    If accessToken = "" Then
        Debug.Print "Failed to request access token, return!"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Debug.Print "User: " & user
    Debug.Print "AccessToken: " & accessToken

    SendMailWithXOAUTH2 user, accessToken
End Sub


' path?parameter1=value1&parameter2=value2#anchor;
Private Function ParseParameter(ByVal uri As String, ByVal key As String) As String

    ParseParameter = ""

    If uri = "" Or key = "" Then
        Exit Function
    End If

    Dim pos As Integer
    pos = InStr(1, uri, "?")
    If pos <= 0 Then
        Exit Function
    End If

    uri = Mid(uri, pos + 1)
    Dim i, parameters, uriParameter
    parameters = Split(uri, "&")

    For i = LBound(parameters) To UBound(parameters)
        uriParameter = parameters(i)
        If InStr(1, uriParameter, key, vbTextCompare) = 1 Then
            Dim value
            value = Mid(uriParameter, Len(key) + 1)

            pos = InStr(1, value, "#")
            If pos > 0 Then
                value = Mid(value, 1, pos - 1)
            End If

            ParseParameter = value
            Exit Function
        End If
    Next


End Function

Private Function RequestAccessToken(ByVal code As String, ByVal redirectUri As String) As String

    Debug.Print "Exchanging code for tokens..."
    RequestAccessToken = ""

    Dim responseText
    responseText = ""

    Dim httpRequest
    Set httpRequest = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0")

    Dim tokenRequestBody
    tokenRequestBody = "code="
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & code
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&redirect_uri="
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & redirectUri
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_id="
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientID
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&grant_type=authorization_code"

    ' If you request access token in web application, you must add client secret in token request data
    ' tokenRequestBody = "code="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & code
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&redirect_uri="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & redirectUri
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_id="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientID
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_secret="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientSecret
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&grant_type=authorization_code"

    httpRequest.setOption 2, 13056
    httpRequest.Open "POST", tokenUri, True
    httpRequest.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    httpRequest.Send tokenRequestBody

    Do While httpRequest.ReadyState <> 4
        DoEvents
        httpRequest.waitForResponse (1)
    Loop

    Dim Status
    Status = httpRequest.Status
    responseText = httpRequest.responseText

    RequestAccessToken = responseText

    If Status < 200 Or Status >= 300 Then
        Debug.Print "Failed to refresh access token from server."
    End If

End Function

Private Sub SendMailWithXOAUTH2(ByVal userEmail As String, ByVal accessToken As String)
    Dim oSmtp As New EASendMailObjLib.Mail
    oSmtp.LicenseCode = "TryIt"

    ' Office 365 server address
    oSmtp.ServerAddr = "outlook.office365.com"
    ' Using 587 port, you can also use 465 or 25 port
    oSmtp.ServerPort = 587

    ' Enable SSL/TLS connection
    oSmtp.ConnectType = ConnectSSLAuto

    ' OAUTH/XOAUTH2 type
    oSmtp.AuthType = AuthXoauth2
    ' set user authentication
    oSmtp.UserName = userEmail
    ' use access token as password
    oSmtp.Password = accessToken

    ' Your email address
    oSmtp.FromAddr = userEmail
    ' Please change recipient address to yours for test
    oSmtp.AddRecipient "Support Team", "support@emailarchitect.net", 0

    oSmtp.Subject = "Test email using Office365 Oauth"
    oSmtp.BodyText = "Hello, this is a test...."

    Debug.Print "start to send email using OAUTH 2.0 ..."
    If oSmtp.SendMail() = 0 Then
        Debug.Print "The email has been submitted to server successfully!"
    Else
        Debug.Print oSmtp.GetLastErrDescription()
    End If

End Sub

VB6 - Send email using Microsoft OAuth + Office 365 EWS protocol

Here is a simple application which demonstrates how to use Microsoft OAuth to do user authentication and send email with EWS protocol.

Note

This sample cannot handle the event of Web Browser is closed by user manually before authentication is completed. You can refer to the better sample project which uses Web Browser Control in EASendMail installation path.

Option Explicit

Const ConnectNormal = 0
Const ConnectSSLAuto = 1
Const ConnectSTARTTLS = 2
Const ConnectDirectSSL = 3
Const ConnectTryTLS = 4

Const AuthAuto = -1
Const AuthLogin = 0
Const AuthNtlm = 1
Const AuthCramMd5 = 2
Const AuthPlain = 3
Const AuthMsn = 4
Const AuthXoauth2 = 5

' client configuration
' You should create your client id and client secret,
' do not use the following client id in production environment, it is used for test purpose only.
Const clientID = "eccbabb2-3377-4265-85c1-ea2fb515f075"
Const clientSecret = "QaR_RR:-5WqTY[nni9pdBr9xVybqrAu4"
' set EWS scope
Const scope = "https://outlook.office.com/EWS.AccessAsUser.All%20offline_access%20email%20openid"
Const authUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize"
Const tokenUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token"

' if your application is single tenant, please use tenant id instead of common in authUri and tokenUri
' for example, your tenant is 669595d0-a4d7-47c5-8040-cf9970400e48, then
' Const authUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/669595d0-a4d7-47c5-8040-cf9970400e48/oauth2/v2.0/authorize"
' Const tokenUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/669595d0-a4d7-47c5-8040-cf9970400e48/oauth2/v2.0/token"

Public Sub DoOauthAndSendEmail()

    Dim httpListener As New EASendMailObjLib.httpListener

    ' Creates a redirect URI using an available port on the loopback address.
    If Not httpListener.Create("127.0.0.1", 0) Then
        Debug.Print "Failed to listen on " & httpListener.GetLastError()
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Dim szUri
    szUri = "http://127.0.0.1:" & httpListener.ListenPort

    Debug.Print "listen on " & szUri

    ' Creates the OAuth 2.0 authorization request.
    Dim authorizationRequest
    authorizationRequest = authUri
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "?response_type=code&scope="
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & scope
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "&redirect_uri="
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & szUri
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "&client_id="
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & clientID
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "&prompt=login"

    Debug.Print "open " & authorizationRequest
    ' Opens request in the browser.
    Dim browserUi As New EASendMailObjLib.browserUi
    browserUi.OpenUrl authorizationRequest

    ' Waits for the OAuth authorization response.
    Do While True
        If Not httpListener.GetRequestUrl(100) Then
            Debug.Print "Failed to wait:"
            Debug.Print httpListener.GetLastError()
            Exit Do
        End If

        If httpListener.RequestUrl <> "" Then
            Exit Do
        End If

        DoEvents
    Loop

    ' Send response and stop http listener.
    httpListener.SendResponse "200", "text/html; charset=utf-8", "<html><head></head><body>Please return to the app and close current window.</body></html>"
    httpListener.Close

    Dim requestUri
    requestUri = httpListener.RequestUrl
    Debug.Print "RequestUri: " & requestUri

    Dim errorCode
    ' Checks for errors.
    errorCode = ParseParameter(requestUri, "error=")
    If errorCode <> "" Then
        Debug.Print "OAuth authorization error: " & errorCode
        Exit Sub
    End If

    ' Check authorization code
    Dim code
    code = ParseParameter(requestUri, "code=")
    If code = "" Then
        Debug.Print "Malformed authorization response: " & requestUri
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Debug.Print "Authorization code: " & code

    Dim responseText
    responseText = RequestAccessToken(code, szUri)
    Debug.Print responseText

    Dim parser As New EASendMailObjLib.OAuthResponseParser
    parser.Load responseText

    Dim user, accessToken

    user = parser.EmailInIdToken
    accessToken = parser.accessToken

    If accessToken = "" Then
        Debug.Print "Failed to request access token, return!"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Debug.Print "User: " & user
    Debug.Print "AccessToken: " & accessToken

    SendMailWithXOAUTH2 user, accessToken
End Sub


' path?parameter1=value1&parameter2=value2#anchor;
Private Function ParseParameter(ByVal uri As String, ByVal key As String) As String

    ParseParameter = ""

    If uri = "" Or key = "" Then
        Exit Function
    End If

    Dim pos As Integer
    pos = InStr(1, uri, "?")
    If pos <= 0 Then
        Exit Function
    End If

    uri = Mid(uri, pos + 1)
    Dim i, parameters, uriParameter
    parameters = Split(uri, "&")

    For i = LBound(parameters) To UBound(parameters)
        uriParameter = parameters(i)
        If InStr(1, uriParameter, key, vbTextCompare) = 1 Then
            Dim value
            value = Mid(uriParameter, Len(key) + 1)

            pos = InStr(1, value, "#")
            If pos > 0 Then
                value = Mid(value, 1, pos - 1)
            End If

            ParseParameter = value
            Exit Function
        End If
    Next


End Function

Private Function RequestAccessToken(ByVal code As String, ByVal redirectUri As String) As String

    Debug.Print "Exchanging code for tokens..."
    RequestAccessToken = ""

    Dim responseText
    responseText = ""

    Dim httpRequest
    Set httpRequest = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0")

    Dim tokenRequestBody
    tokenRequestBody = "code="
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & code
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&redirect_uri="
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & redirectUri
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_id="
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientID
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&grant_type=authorization_code"

    ' If you request access token in web application, you must add client secret in token request data
    ' tokenRequestBody = "code="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & code
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&redirect_uri="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & redirectUri
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_id="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientID
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_secret="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientSecret
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&grant_type=authorization_code"

    httpRequest.setOption 2, 13056
    httpRequest.Open "POST", tokenUri, True
    httpRequest.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    httpRequest.Send tokenRequestBody

    Do While httpRequest.ReadyState <> 4
        DoEvents
        httpRequest.waitForResponse (1)
    Loop

    Dim Status
    Status = httpRequest.Status
    responseText = httpRequest.responseText

    RequestAccessToken = responseText

    If Status < 200 Or Status >= 300 Then
        Debug.Print "Failed to refresh access token from server."
    End If

End Function

Private Sub SendMailWithXOAUTH2(ByVal userEmail As String, ByVal accessToken As String)
    Dim oSmtp As New EASendMailObjLib.Mail
    oSmtp.LicenseCode = "TryIt"

    ' Office 365 server address
    oSmtp.ServerAddr = "outlook.office365.com"

    ' Set Exchange Web Service Protocol - EWS - Exchange 2007/2010/2013/2016/2019/Office365
    oSmtp.Protocol = 1

    ' Enable SSL/TLS connection
    oSmtp.ConnectType = ConnectSSLAuto

    ' OAUTH/XOAUTH2 type
    oSmtp.AuthType = AuthXoauth2
    ' set user authentication
    oSmtp.UserName = userEmail
    ' use access token as password
    oSmtp.Password = accessToken

    ' Your email address
    oSmtp.FromAddr = userEmail
    ' Please change recipient address to yours for test
    oSmtp.AddRecipient "Support Team", "support@emailarchitect.net", 0

    oSmtp.Subject = "Test email using Office365 Oauth"
    oSmtp.BodyText = "Hello, this is a test...."

    Debug.Print "start to send email using OAUTH 2.0 ..."
    If oSmtp.SendMail() = 0 Then
        Debug.Print "The email has been submitted to server successfully!"
    Else
        Debug.Print oSmtp.GetLastErrDescription()
    End If

End Sub

VB6 - Send email using Microsoft OAuth + Office 365 Ms Graph API protocol

Here is a simple application which demonstrates how to use Microsoft OAuth to do user authentication and send email with Ms Graph API protocol.

Note

This sample cannot handle the event of Web Browser is closed by user manually before authentication is completed. You can refer to the better sample project which uses Web Browser Control in EASendMail installation path.

Option Explicit

Const ConnectNormal = 0
Const ConnectSSLAuto = 1
Const ConnectSTARTTLS = 2
Const ConnectDirectSSL = 3
Const ConnectTryTLS = 4

Const AuthAuto = -1
Const AuthLogin = 0
Const AuthNtlm = 1
Const AuthCramMd5 = 2
Const AuthPlain = 3
Const AuthMsn = 4
Const AuthXoauth2 = 5

' client configuration
' You should create your client id and client secret,
' do not use the following client id in production environment, it is used for test purpose only.
Const clientID = "eccbabb2-3377-4265-85c1-ea2fb515f075"
Const clientSecret = "QaR_RR:-5WqTY[nni9pdBr9xVybqrAu4"
' set Ms Graph API scope
Const scope = "https://graph.microsoft.com/Mail.Send%20offline_access%20email%20openid"
Const authUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize"
Const tokenUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token"

' if your application is single tenant, please use tenant id instead of common in authUri and tokenUri
' for example, your tenant is 669595d0-a4d7-47c5-8040-cf9970400e48, then
' Const authUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/669595d0-a4d7-47c5-8040-cf9970400e48/oauth2/v2.0/authorize"
' Const tokenUri = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/669595d0-a4d7-47c5-8040-cf9970400e48/oauth2/v2.0/token"

Public Sub DoOauthAndSendEmail()

    Dim httpListener As New EASendMailObjLib.httpListener

    ' Creates a redirect URI using an available port on the loopback address.
    If Not httpListener.Create("127.0.0.1", 0) Then
        Debug.Print "Failed to listen on " & httpListener.GetLastError()
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Dim szUri
    szUri = "http://127.0.0.1:" & httpListener.ListenPort

    Debug.Print "listen on " & szUri

    ' Creates the OAuth 2.0 authorization request.
    Dim authorizationRequest
    authorizationRequest = authUri
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "?response_type=code&scope="
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & scope
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "&redirect_uri="
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & szUri
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "&client_id="
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & clientID
    authorizationRequest = authorizationRequest & "&prompt=login"

    Debug.Print "open " & authorizationRequest
    ' Opens request in the browser.
    Dim browserUi As New EASendMailObjLib.browserUi
    browserUi.OpenUrl authorizationRequest

    ' Waits for the OAuth authorization response.
    Do While True
        If Not httpListener.GetRequestUrl(100) Then
            Debug.Print "Failed to wait:"
            Debug.Print httpListener.GetLastError()
            Exit Do
        End If

        If httpListener.RequestUrl <> "" Then
            Exit Do
        End If

        DoEvents
    Loop

    ' Send response and stop http listener.
    httpListener.SendResponse "200", "text/html; charset=utf-8", "<html><head></head><body>Please return to the app and close current window.</body></html>"
    httpListener.Close

    Dim requestUri
    requestUri = httpListener.RequestUrl
    Debug.Print "RequestUri: " & requestUri

    Dim errorCode
    ' Checks for errors.
    errorCode = ParseParameter(requestUri, "error=")
    If errorCode <> "" Then
        Debug.Print "OAuth authorization error: " & errorCode
        Exit Sub
    End If

    ' Check authorization code
    Dim code
    code = ParseParameter(requestUri, "code=")
    If code = "" Then
        Debug.Print "Malformed authorization response: " & requestUri
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Debug.Print "Authorization code: " & code

    Dim responseText
    responseText = RequestAccessToken(code, szUri)
    Debug.Print responseText

    Dim parser As New EASendMailObjLib.OAuthResponseParser
    parser.Load responseText

    Dim user, accessToken

    user = parser.EmailInIdToken
    accessToken = parser.accessToken

    If accessToken = "" Then
        Debug.Print "Failed to request access token, return!"
        Exit Sub
    End If

    Debug.Print "User: " & user
    Debug.Print "AccessToken: " & accessToken

    SendMailWithXOAUTH2 user, accessToken
End Sub


' path?parameter1=value1&parameter2=value2#anchor;
Private Function ParseParameter(ByVal uri As String, ByVal key As String) As String

    ParseParameter = ""

    If uri = "" Or key = "" Then
        Exit Function
    End If

    Dim pos As Integer
    pos = InStr(1, uri, "?")
    If pos <= 0 Then
        Exit Function
    End If

    uri = Mid(uri, pos + 1)
    Dim i, parameters, uriParameter
    parameters = Split(uri, "&")

    For i = LBound(parameters) To UBound(parameters)
        uriParameter = parameters(i)
        If InStr(1, uriParameter, key, vbTextCompare) = 1 Then
            Dim value
            value = Mid(uriParameter, Len(key) + 1)

            pos = InStr(1, value, "#")
            If pos > 0 Then
                value = Mid(value, 1, pos - 1)
            End If

            ParseParameter = value
            Exit Function
        End If
    Next


End Function

Private Function RequestAccessToken(ByVal code As String, ByVal redirectUri As String) As String

    Debug.Print "Exchanging code for tokens..."
    RequestAccessToken = ""

    Dim responseText
    responseText = ""

    Dim httpRequest
    Set httpRequest = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0")

    Dim tokenRequestBody
    tokenRequestBody = "code="
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & code
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&redirect_uri="
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & redirectUri
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_id="
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientID
    tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&grant_type=authorization_code"

    ' If you request access token in web application, you must add client secret in token request data
    ' tokenRequestBody = "code="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & code
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&redirect_uri="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & redirectUri
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_id="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientID
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_secret="
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientSecret
    ' tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&grant_type=authorization_code"

    httpRequest.setOption 2, 13056
    httpRequest.Open "POST", tokenUri, True
    httpRequest.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    httpRequest.Send tokenRequestBody

    Do While httpRequest.ReadyState <> 4
        DoEvents
        httpRequest.waitForResponse (1)
    Loop

    Dim Status
    Status = httpRequest.Status
    responseText = httpRequest.responseText

    RequestAccessToken = responseText

    If Status < 200 Or Status >= 300 Then
        Debug.Print "Failed to refresh access token from server."
    End If

End Function

Private Sub SendMailWithXOAUTH2(ByVal userEmail As String, ByVal accessToken As String)
    Dim oSmtp As New EASendMailObjLib.Mail
    oSmtp.LicenseCode = "TryIt"

    ' Office 365 Ms Graph API server address
    oSmtp.ServerAddr = "graph.microsoft.com"

    ' Set Office365 Ms Graph API protocol
    oSmtp.Protocol = 4

    ' Enable SSL/TLS connection
    oSmtp.ConnectType = ConnectSSLAuto

    ' OAUTH/XOAUTH2 type
    oSmtp.AuthType = AuthXoauth2
    ' set user authentication
    oSmtp.UserName = userEmail
    ' use access token as password
    oSmtp.Password = accessToken

    ' Your email address
    oSmtp.FromAddr = userEmail
    ' Please change recipient address to yours for test
    oSmtp.AddRecipient "Support Team", "support@emailarchitect.net", 0

    oSmtp.Subject = "Test email using Office365 Oauth"
    oSmtp.BodyText = "Hello, this is a test...."

    Debug.Print "start to send email using OAUTH 2.0 ..."
    If oSmtp.SendMail() = 0 Then
        Debug.Print "The email has been submitted to server successfully!"
    Else
        Debug.Print oSmtp.GetLastErrDescription()
    End If

End Sub

VBScript - Send email using Microsoft OAuth + Office 365 SMTP/EWS/Ms Graph API protocol in ASP

If you use Microsoft OAuth in ASP application, you should use a ASP page to get authorization code instead of HttpListener. You need to add your ASP page path to Authentication -> add a platform -> web -> Redirect URIs in your Azure application.

azure application web redirect uri 
' If you request access token in web application, you must add client secret in token request data
tokenRequestBody = "code="
tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & code
tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&redirect_uri="
tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & redirectUri
tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_id="
tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientID
tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&client_secret="
tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & clientSecret
tokenRequestBody = tokenRequestBody & "&grant_type=authorization_code"

' Please add http://localhost/gmailoauth/default.asp to Authorized redirect URIs in your Google/MS Azure project.
Dim code
code = Request.QueryString("code")

You can find a full sample project in EASendMail installation path\Samples_ASPNetMvc.

TLS 1.2 protocol

TLS is the successor of SSL, more and more SMTP servers require TLS 1.2 encryption now.

If your operating system is Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2, you need to enable TLS 1.2 protocol in your operating system like this:

Enable TLS 1.2 on Windows XP/Vista/7/10/Windows 2008/2008 R2/2012

EA Oauth Service for Office 365

If you are not the tenant administrator and you don’t have the permission to create or grant the application in Azure, or if your code is too complex or out of maintenance, and you don’t want to change anything in your source codes, then you can have a try with EA Oauth Service for Offic365. It provides an easy way for the legacy email application that doesn’t support OAUTH 2.0 to send and retrieve email from Office 365 without changing any codes. SMTP, POP, IMAP and SSL/TLS protocols are supported.

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