Android™

Send Email with hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com

See more SMTP Examples

Send email using your Microsoft hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com account via the smtp.office365.com SMTP server.

See the Guide for Creating an Application to Send Email from Hotmail.com, Live.com, or Outlook.com

Android™

// 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);

    boolean success = false;

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

    CkMailMan mailman = new CkMailMan();

    mailman.put_SmtpHost("smtp.office365.com");
    mailman.put_SmtpPort(587);
    mailman.put_StartTLS(true);

    // This could be your hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com account.
    mailman.put_SmtpUsername("yourName@live.com");

    // Load the previously saved OAuth2 access token.
    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/hotmail.json");
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, json.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    mailman.put_OAuth2AccessToken(json.stringOf("access_token"));

    CkEmail email = new CkEmail();

    // Note: If you send an email such as this, it can easily go to your Junk or Trash email folders.
    email.put_Subject("This is a test");
    email.put_Body("This is a test");
    // This could be your hotmail.com, live.com, or outlook.com account.
    email.put_From("My Hotmail Account <yourName@live.com>");
    success = email.AddTo("Joe Example","joe@example.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."
  }
}