(PHP ActiveX) 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 ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Note: The php_com_dotnet.dll may need to be enabled inside of php.ini.

<?php

// 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 = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.MailMan");

// Set the SMTP server.
// Apparently, both "smtp-mail.outlook.com" and "smtp.live.com" are valid.
$mailman->SmtpHost = 'smtp.live.com';
$mailman->SmtpPort = 587;

// Set the SMTP login/password (if required)
$mailman->SmtpUsername = 'myLogin@live.com';
$mailman->SmtpPassword = 'MY-HOTMAIL-PASSWORD';

// Create a new email object
$email = new COM("Chilkat_9_5_0.Email");

$email->Subject = 'This is a test';
$email->Body = 'This is a test';
$email->From = 'My Hotmail Account <myLogin@live.com>';
$success = $email->AddTo('Chilkat Admin','admin@chilkatsoft.com');

$success = $mailman->OpenSmtpConnection();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    print 'ConnectFailReason = ' . $mailman->ConnectFailReason . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $mailman->SmtpAuthenticate();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $mailman->SendEmail($email);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $mailman->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$mailman->CloseSmtpConnection();

print 'Email Sent.' . "\n";

?>