In previous section, I introduced how to send email using Yahoo account. In this section, I will introduce how to use your Hotmail/MSN Live/Outlook.com/Office365 account to send email in Managed C++.
Sections:
Hotmail/Live/Outlook.com SMTP server address is smtp.office365.com
. It requires explicit SSL (TLS)
connection to do user authentication, and you should use your Hotmail/Live/Outlook.com email
address as the user name for ESMTP authentication. For example: your email is myid@hotmail.com
,
and then the user name should be myid@hotmail.com
.
Server | Port | SSL/TLS |
smtp.office365.com | 25, 587 | TLS |
Note
Remarks: All of samples in this section are based on first section: A simple Managed C++/CLI project. To compile and run the following example codes successfully, please click here to learn how to create the test project and add reference of EASendMail to your project.
The following example codes demonstrate how to send email using Hotmail/MSN Live account.
Note
To get the full sample projects, please refer to Samples section.
#include "stdafx.h"
using namespace System;
using namespace EASendMail;
int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
try
{
SmtpMail ^oMail = gcnew SmtpMail("TryIt");
// Your Hotmail email address
oMail->From = "liveid@hotmail.com";
// Set recipient email address, please change it to yours
oMail->To = gcnew AddressCollection("support@emailarchitect.net");
// Set email subject
oMail->Subject = "test email from Managed C++ with Hotmail account";
// Set email body
oMail->TextBody = "this is a test email sent from Managed C++ project with Hotmail";
// Hotmail SMTP server address
SmtpServer ^oServer = gcnew SmtpServer("smtp.office365.com");
// Hotmail user authentication should use your
// email address as the user name.
oServer->User = "liveid@hotmail.com";
// If you got authentication error, try to create an app password instead of your user password.
// https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/using-app-passwords-with-apps-that-don-t-support-two-step-verification-5896ed9b-4263-e681-128a-a6f2979a7944
oServer->Password = "your password or app password";
// set 587 port
oServer->Port = 587;
// detect SSL/TLS automatically
oServer->ConnectType = SmtpConnectType::ConnectSSLAuto;
Console::WriteLine("start to send email with SSL connection...");
SmtpClient ^oSmtp = gcnew SmtpClient();
oSmtp->SendMail(oServer, oMail);
Console::WriteLine("email was sent successfully!");
}
catch (Exception ^ep)
{
Console::WriteLine("failed to send email with the following error:");
Console::WriteLine(ep->Message);
}
return 0;
}
If your account enabled two-factor authentication, you cannot login your account by normal user authentication, you should use SMTP OAUTH or App Password.
Microsoft Live SMTP servers (Hotmail, Oultook personal account) have been extended to support authorization via the industry-standard OAuth 2.0 protocol. Using OAUTH protocol, user can do authentication by Microsoft Web OAuth instead of inputting user and password directly in application.
Microsoft will disable traditional user authentication in the future, switching to Microsoft OAuth (Modern Authentication) is strongly recommended now.
Or you can generate App Passwords and use this app password instead of your user password.
Office 365 SMTP server uses 587 port and explicit SSL (TLS) connection.
Server | Port | SSL/TLS |
smtp.office365.com | 25, 587 (recommended) | TLS |
If your account enabled two-factor authentication, you cannot login your account by normal user authentication,
you should create an App Passwords and
use this App Password
instead of the user password.
You should also check if authenticated client SMTP submission (SMTP AUTH)
is enabled:
Enable or disable authenticated client SMTP submission (SMTP AUTH) in Exchange Online.
[C++/CLI - Send Email using Office 365 over Explicit SSL (TLS) on 587 Port - Example]
The following example codes demonstrate how to send email using Office 365 in C++/CLI over TLS 587 port.
Note
To get the full sample projects, please refer to Samples section.
#include "stdafx.h"
using namespace System;
using namespace EASendMail;
int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)
{
try
{
SmtpMail ^oMail = gcnew SmtpMail("TryIt");
// Your office365 email address
oMail->From = "yourid@yourdomain";
// Set recipient email address, please change it to yours
oMail->To = gcnew AddressCollection("support@emailarchitect.net");
// Set email subject
oMail->Subject = "test email from Managed C++ with office365 account";
// Set email body
oMail->TextBody = "this is a test email sent from Managed C++ project with office365";
// Office365 SMTP server address
SmtpServer ^oServer = gcnew SmtpServer("smtp.office365.com");
// office365 user authentication should use your
// email address as the user name.
oServer->User = "yourid@yourdomain";
// If you got authentication error, try to create an app password instead of your user password.
// https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/using-app-passwords-with-apps-that-don-t-support-two-step-verification-5896ed9b-4263-e681-128a-a6f2979a7944
oServer->Password = "your password or app password";
// Use 587 port
oServer->Port = 587;
// detect SSL/TLS automatically
oServer->ConnectType = SmtpConnectType::ConnectSSLAuto;
Console::WriteLine("start to send email with SSL connection...");
SmtpClient ^oSmtp = gcnew SmtpClient();
oSmtp->SendMail(oServer, oMail);
Console::WriteLine("email was sent successfully!");
}
catch (Exception ^ep)
{
Console::WriteLine("failed to send email with the following error:");
Console::WriteLine(ep->Message);
}
return 0;
}
If your account enabled two-factor authentication, you cannot login your account by normal user authentication, you should use SMTP/EWS/Ms Graph API OAUTH or App Password.
Microsoft Office365 SMTP/EWS/Ms Graph API servers have been extended to support authorization via the industry-standard OAuth 2.0 protocol. Using OAUTH protocol, user can do authentication by Microsoft Web OAuth instead of inputting user and password directly in application.
Microsoft will disable traditional user authentication in the future, switching to Microsoft OAuth (Modern Authentication) is strongly recommended now.
Or you can generate App Passwords and use this app password instead of your user password.
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
,
and you got connection error with SSL/TLS connection,
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
Next Section
At next section I will introduce how to send email without specified SMTP server.
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