You can send email using traditional user/password SMTP authentication from personal Hotmail/Outlook account.
However Microsoft will disable traditional user authentication in the future, switching to Microsoft OAuth (Modern Authentication) is strongly recommended now.
Sections:
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.
To use EASendMail SMTP ActiveX Object in your Delphi project, the first step is “Add Unit file of EASendMail to your project”.
Please go to C:\Program Files\EASendMail\Include\delphi
or
C:\Program Files (x86)\EASendMail\Include\delphi
folder, find EASendMailObjLib_TLB.pas
,
and then copy this file to your project folder.
unit Unit1;
interface
// include EASendMailObjLib_TLB unit to your Delphi Project
uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
Dialogs, EASendMailObjLib_TLB, StdCtrls;
You can also create “EASendMailObjLib_TLB.pas” manually like this:
Delphi 7
Please choose menu -> Project
-> Import Type Library
and select EASendMailObj ActiveX Object
,
click Create Unit
, the reference of EASendMail ActiveX Object will be added to your project.
Delphi XE
If you use Delphi XE to import the Type library, Please choose menu
-> Component
-> Import Component
-> Import Type Library
-> and select
EASendMailObj ActiveX Object
-> have Generate Component Wrapper
checked -> Create Unit.
Then you can start to use it in your Delphi Project.
To use Microsoft/Office365/Live OAuth (Modern Authentication) in your application, you must create a application in Azure Portal.
Azure portal
using either a work or school account or a personal Microsoft account.Azure AD tenant
that you want.Search Microsoft Entra ID
(old name “Azure Active Directory”) and go to this service:
In the left-hand navigation pane, select the Microsoft Entra ID
service, and then select -> Manage
-> App registrations
-> New registration
.
Input a name to to register the application:
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.
Single tenant
type;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.
Now you need to assign API permission to the application by clicking Manage
-> API Permission
-> Add a permission
.
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:
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
.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:
Manage
-> API Permission
->Add a permission
-> APIs in my organization uses
-> Office 365 Exchange Online
-> Delegated Permission
->
Check EWS.AccessAsUser.All
Here is permissions list:
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"
.
Now we need to create a client secret for the application,
click Manage
-> Certificates and secrets
-> client secrets
and add a new client secret
.
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.
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:
Important
You must complete the publisher verification for multitenant application, otherwise, your application will not request access token correctly.
Now you can click Overview
to find your client id
and tenant
.
single tenant
, use the tenant value in tokenUri
and authUri
instead of common
.multitenant
, use common
as tenant.Above client id
and client secret
support both "Office365 + SMTP/EWS"
and
"Live (hotmail, outlook personal account) + SMTP"
.
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
You can use client id and client secret to get the user email address and access token like this:
EASendMail Installation Path\Samples_{Programming language/Developer Tool}\Oauth
project.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.
Here is a simple application which demonstrates how to use Microsoft OAuth to do user authentication and send email.
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.
program Project1;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, ActiveX, MSXML2_TLB, EASendMailObjLib_TLB;
const
ConnectNormal = 0;
ConnectSSLAuto = 1;
ConnectSTARTTLS = 2;
ConnectDirectSSL = 3;
ConnectTryTLS = 4;
AuthAuto = -1;
AuthLogin = 0;
AuthNtlm = 1;
AuthCramMd5 = 2;
AuthPlain = 3;
AuthMsn = 4;
AuthXoauth2 = 5;
CRYPT_MACHINE_KEYSET = 32;
CRYPT_USER_KEYSET = 4096;
CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_CURRENT_USER = 65536;
CERT_SYSTEM_STORE_LOCAL_MACHINE = 131072;
// 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.
clientID = 'eccbabb2-3377-4265-85c1-ea2fb515f075';
clientSecret = 'QaR_RR:-5WqTY[nni9pdBr9xVybqrAu4';
scope = 'https://outlook.office.com/SMTP.Send%20offline_access%20email%20openid';
authUri = 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/authorize';
tokenUri = 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.0/token';
function GetConsoleWindow: HWND; stdcall;
external kernel32 name 'GetConsoleWindow';
procedure SendMailWithXOAUTH2(email: string; accesstoken: string);
var
oSmtp : TMail;
begin
oSmtp := TMail.Create(nil);
oSmtp.LicenseCode := 'TryIt';
// Hotmail/Outlook/Live SMTP server address
oSmtp.ServerAddr := 'smtp.office365.com';
// Using 587 port, you can also use 465 or 25 port
oSmtp.ServerPort := 587;
// Enable SSL/TLS connection
oSmtp.ConnectType := ConnectSSLAuto;
// XOAUTH 2.0 authentication
oSmtp.AuthType := AuthXoauth2;
// set user authentication
oSmtp.UserName := email;
// use access token as password
oSmtp.Password := accesstoken;
// Set sender email address
oSmtp.FromAddr := email;
// Add recipient email address
// Please change recipient address to yours for test
oSmtp.AddRecipientEx('support@emailarchitect.net', 0);
// Set email subject
oSmtp.Subject := 'test email from Delphi project using Hotmail Oauth';
// Set email body
oSmtp.BodyText := 'this is a test email sent from Delphi project, do not reply';
writeln('start to send email using OAUTH 2.0 ...');
if oSmtp.SendMail() = 0 then
writeln('The email has been submitted to server successfully!')
else
writeln(oSmtp.GetLastErrDescription());
end;
// path?parameter1=value1¶meter2=value2#anchor;
function ParseParameter(URL: string; ParameterName: string):string;
var
query, parameter, code: string;
i, mypos, parameterNameLength: integer;
list: TStrings;
begin
result := '';
parameterNameLength := Length(ParameterName);
query := URL;
mypos := pos('?', query);
if(mypos > 0) then
query := Copy(query, mypos + 1, length(query) - mypos);
list := TStringList.Create;
ExtractStrings(['&'], [], PChar(query), list);
for i:= 0 to list.Count - 1 do
begin
parameter := list[i];
if (length(parameter) > parameterNameLength) and
(LowerCase(Copy(parameter, 1, parameterNameLength)) = ParameterName) then
begin
code := Copy(parameter, parameterNameLength + 1, length(parameter) - parameterNameLength);
mypos := pos('#', code);
if(mypos > 0) then
code := Copy(code, 1, mypos - 1);
result := code;
exit;
end
end;
end;
function RequestAccessToken(code: string; redirectUri: string): string;
var
httpRequest: TServerXMLHTTP60;
tokenRequestBody: OleVariant;
status: integer;
begin
writeln('Exchanging code for tokens...');
result := '';
try
httpRequest := TServerXMLHTTP60.Create(nil);
if (httpRequest = nil) then
begin
writeln('Failed to create XML HTTP Object, please make sure you install MSXML 3.0 on your machine.');
exit;
end;
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';
httpRequest.setOption(2, 13056);
httpRequest.open('POST', tokenUri, true);
httpRequest.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
httpRequest.send(tokenRequestBody);
while( httpRequest.readyState <> 4 ) do
httpRequest.waitForResponse(1);
status := httpRequest.status;
result := httpRequest.responseText;
if (status < 200) or (status >= 300) then
writeln('Failed to get access token from server: ' + httpRequest.responseText);
except
writeln('Server response timeout (access token) or exception.');
exit;
end;
end;
procedure DoOauthAndSendEmail();
var
httpListener: THttpListener;
browserUi: TBrowserUi;
parser: TOAuthResponseParser;
szUri, requestUri: string;
authorizationRequest: string;
error, code: string;
responseText: string;
user, accessToken: string;
begin
httpListener := THttpListener.Create(nil);
// Creates a redirect URI using an available port on the loopback address.
if (not httpListener.Create1('127.0.0.1', 0)) then
begin
writeln('Failed to listen on ' + httpListener.GetLastError());
exit;
end;
szUri := Format('http://127.0.0.1:%d', [httpListener.ListenPort]);
writeln('listen on ' + szUri + ' ...');
// Creates the OAuth 2.0 authorization request.
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';
writeln('open ' + authorizationRequest + ' ...');
// Opens request in the browser.
browserUi := TBrowserUi.Create(nil);
browserUi.OpenUrl(authorizationRequest);
// Waits for the OAuth authorization response.
if not (httpListener.GetRequestUrl(-1)) then
begin
writeln('Failed to get authorization response ' + httpListener.GetLastError());
exit;
end;
// Brings the Console to Focus.
SetForegroundWindow(GetConsoleWindow());
// 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();
requestUri := httpListener.RequestUrl;
writeln('RequestUri: ' + requestUri);
// Checks for errors.
error := ParseParameter(requestUri, 'error=');
if (error <> '') then
begin
writeln('OAuth authorization error: ' + error);
exit;
end;
// Check authorization code
code := ParseParameter(requestUri, 'code=');
if (code = '') then
begin
writeln('Malformed authorization response: ' + requestUri);
exit;
end;
writeln;
writeln('Authorization code: ' + code);
responseText := RequestAccessToken(code, szUri);
writeln(responseText);
parser := TOAuthResponseParser.Create(nil);
parser.Load(responseText);
user := parser.EmailInIdToken;
accessToken := parser.AccessToken;
if (accessToken = '') then
begin
writeln('Failed to request access token, return!');
exit;
end;
writeln('User: ' + user);
writeln('AccessToken:' + accessToken);
SendMailWithXOAUTH2(user, accessToken);
end;
begin
CoInitialize(nil);
writeln('+------------------------------------------------------------------+');
writeln(' Sign in with MS OAuth');
writeln(' If you got "This app is not verified" information in Web Browser, ');
writeln(' click "Advanced" -> Go to ... to continue test.');
writeln('+------------------------------------------------------------------+');
writeln('');
writeln('Press ENTER key to sign in...');
readln;
DoOauthAndSendEmail();
writeln('Press ENTER key to quit...');
readln;
end.
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
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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