(C) Send Email with Hotmail (live.com) -- smtp-mail.outlook.com

Demonstrates the SMTP settings required for sending email through Hotmail (A live.com email address). The Hotmail SMTP server is smtp-mail.outlook.com and receives connections on the SMTP port 587. It expects STARTTLS to establish an explicit TLS connection.

Note: When I first tested this code, I received the following error:

550 5.3.4 554-554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Deliver; delivery result banner

Mozilla Thunderbird also encountered the same error. I then started a browser, visited outlook.live.com, and logged in to my account. I probably hadn't done that for a very long time. I then retried running this example, and everything worked.

Also, it seems that the SMTP server hostname can be either "smtp-mail.outlook.com" or "smtp.live.com". Both worked.

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#include <C_CkMailMan.h>
#include <C_CkEmail.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkMailMan mailman;
    HCkEmail email;
    BOOL success;

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // The mailman object is used for sending (SMTP) and receiving (POP3) email.
    mailman = CkMailMan_Create();

    // Set the SMTP server.
    // Apparently, both "smtp-mail.outlook.com" and "smtp.live.com" are valid.
    CkMailMan_putSmtpHost(mailman,"smtp.live.com");
    CkMailMan_putSmtpPort(mailman,587);

    // Set the SMTP login/password (if required)
    CkMailMan_putSmtpUsername(mailman,"myLogin@live.com");
    CkMailMan_putSmtpPassword(mailman,"MY-HOTMAIL-PASSWORD");

    // Create a new email object
    email = CkEmail_Create();

    CkEmail_putSubject(email,"This is a test");
    CkEmail_putBody(email,"This is a test");
    CkEmail_putFrom(email,"My Hotmail Account <myLogin@live.com>");
    success = CkEmail_AddTo(email,"Chilkat Admin","admin@chilkatsoft.com");

    success = CkMailMan_OpenSmtpConnection(mailman);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkMailMan_lastErrorText(mailman));
        printf("ConnectFailReason = %d\n",CkMailMan_getConnectFailReason(mailman));
        CkMailMan_Dispose(mailman);
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

    success = CkMailMan_SmtpAuthenticate(mailman);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkMailMan_lastErrorText(mailman));
        CkMailMan_Dispose(mailman);
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

    success = CkMailMan_SendEmail(mailman,email);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkMailMan_lastErrorText(mailman));
        CkMailMan_Dispose(mailman);
        CkEmail_Dispose(email);
        return;
    }

    CkMailMan_CloseSmtpConnection(mailman);

    printf("Email Sent.\n");


    CkMailMan_Dispose(mailman);
    CkEmail_Dispose(email);

    }