Unattended e-mails via Outlook 365

[cdmmaui]

Hello Everyone,

Has anyone been able to send unattended e-mails via Outlook 365 via port 587? If so, can you provide an example on-line or via my e-mail at Darrell.Ortiz@cdmsoft.com.

Thank you in advance for your assistance!

Sincerely,

[TimStone]

I asked this question about a month ago and had no response.

[cdmmaui]

Dear Tim,

Thank you.

Dear Antonio, is there a solution available?

[Rick Lipkin]

Darell

Googled your subject and found several possible answers .. here is a CDO example and note the port is 25, not 587

https://clicdatacoder.wordpress.com/201 ... lications/

Dim objCDO
Set objCDO = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objCDO.Configuration.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "podxxxxx.outlook.com"
objCDO.Configuration.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
objCDO.Configuration.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
objCDO.Configuration.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "username@clicdata.com"
objCDO.Configuration.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "mypassword
objCDO.Configuration.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1
objCDO.Configuration.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = true
objCDO.Configuration.Fields.Update
' Rest of sending code goes here...
Please note here that the port is not 587 but 25. Do not understand why this works but it does. .

// example 2

https://www.emailarchitect.net/easendma ... aspx?cat=4

Send Email using Office 365
First of all, you should go to Office 365 “Outlook” -> “Options” -> “See All Options” -> “Account” -> “My Account” -> “Settings for POP, IMAP, and SMTP access”. You will get your Office 365 SMTP server address and port. Then you can use your Office 365 SMTP server, port, user/password in the codes.

By default, Office 365 SMTP server uses 587 port and explicit SSL (TLS) connection.

Server Port SSL/TLS
smtp.office365.com 25, 587 (recommended) TLS
[C# - 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# over TLS 587 port.

Note

To get the full sample projects, please refer to Samples section.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using EASendMail; //add EASendMail namespace
namespace mysendemail
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
SmtpMail oMail = new SmtpMail("TryIt");
SmtpClient oSmtp = new SmtpClient();

// Your Offic 365 email address
oMail.From = "myid@mydomain";

// Set recipient email address
oMail.To = "support@emailarchitect.net";

// Set email subject
oMail.Subject = "test email from office 365 account";

// Set email body
oMail.TextBody = "this is a test email sent from c# project.";

// Your Office 365 SMTP server address,
// You should get it from outlook web access.
SmtpServer oServer = new SmtpServer("smtp.office365.com");

// user authentication should use your
// email address as the user name.
oServer.User = "myid@mydomain";
oServer.Password = "yourpassword";

// Set 587 port
oServer.Port = 587;

// detect SSL/TLS connection automatically
oServer.ConnectType = SmtpConnectType.ConnectSSLAuto;

try
{
Console.WriteLine("start to send email over SSL...");
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);
}
}
}
}

Hope this helps
Rick Lipkin

[cdmmaui]

Dear Rick,

Thank you so much!

[TimStone]

OK ... so you are using SMTP to an Office 365 Exchange account. That is not a problem, but it's not exactly saving it through Outlook. I do automated emails using SMTP all the time, and it's actually a much simpler process.

However, I wanted to use MAPI with the FWH Mail class, but do it unattended. MAPI works fine, but for each email it pops up the email and the user must manually send them. I asked if there was a flag that allows us to just send them without the email popup but received no response.

Again, I'm interested in using Outlook as the unattended MAPI service. The benefit is this. First, the account name on the outlook is the local one for that computer. Thus, it is logged in the Sent folder, and any responses come back directly to that computer. It makes it very easy to send and receive emails and keep track of them. It's never a problem with individual ones, but I also have a set of reminder emails sent automatically each night. I'd love to also use MAPI for that ... but need the ability to do it without having each email display.

Why not just use SMTP ? For whatever reason, our CDO and SMTP options do not always behave. Some of my clients just can't get those to work, even when Outlook does.

Tim