(Android™) 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.

Chilkat Android™ Downloads Android™ Java Libraries Android C/C++ Libraries

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // 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.
    CkMailMan mailman = new CkMailMan();

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

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

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

    email.put_Subject("This is a test");
    email.put_Body("This is a test");
    email.put_From("My Hotmail Account <myLogin@live.com>");
    boolean success = email.AddTo("Chilkat Admin","admin@chilkatsoft.com");

    success = mailman.OpenSmtpConnection();
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, mailman.lastErrorText());
        Log.i(TAG, "ConnectFailReason = " + String.valueOf(mailman.get_ConnectFailReason()));
        return;
        }

    success = mailman.SmtpAuthenticate();
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, mailman.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    success = mailman.SendEmail(email);
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, mailman.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    mailman.CloseSmtpConnection();

    Log.i(TAG, "Email Sent.");

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}