Node.js

Office365 Send Email from Shared Mailbox

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Demonstrates how to send email from a shared mailbox, from smtp.office365.com using OAuth2 authentication. Node.js

NODEJS_PRELUDE

function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

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

    //  An Office365 OAuth2 access token must first be obtained prior
    //  to running this code.

    //  Getting the OAuth2 access token for the 1st time requires the O365 account owner's 
    //  interactive authorizaition via a web browser.  Afterwards, the access token
    //  can be repeatedly refreshed automatically.

    //  See the following examples for getting and refreshing an OAuth2 access token

    //  Get Office365 SMTP/IMAP/POP3 OAuth2 Access Token
    //  Refresh Office365 SMTP/IMAP/POP3 OAuth2 Access Token

    //  First get our previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
    var jsonToken = new chilkat.JsonObject();
    success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/office365.json");

    var mailman = new chilkat.MailMan();

    mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.office365.com";
    mailman.SmtpPort = 587;
    mailman.StartTLS = true;

    //  In case of shared mailbox access using OAuth, the application needs to obtain the access token on behalf of a user
    //  but replace the SMTP username with the email address of the shared mailbox.

    //  Login using the shared mailbox email address for the username, and the access token for the password.
    //  See Office 365 SASL XOAUTH2 format 

    //  Use your Office365 email address for the SmtpUsername.
    mailman.SmtpUsername = "SHARED_MAILBOX_EMAIL_ADDRESS";
    mailman.OAuth2AccessToken = jsonToken.StringOf("access_token");

    //  Create a new email object
    var email = new chilkat.Email();

    email.Subject = "This is a test";
    email.Body = "This is a test";
    email.From = "MY_NAME <SHARED_MAILBOX_EMAIL_ADDRESS>";
    success = email.AddTo("John Doe","somebody@example.com");

    //  Call SendEmail to connect to the SMTP server and send.
    //  The connection (i.e. session) to the SMTP server remains
    //  open so that subsequent SendEmail calls may use the
    //  same connection.  
    success = mailman.SendEmail(email);
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log(mailman.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    success = mailman.CloseSmtpConnection();
    if (success !== true) {
        console.log("Connection to SMTP server not closed cleanly.");
    }

    console.log("Mail Sent!");

}

chilkatExample();