Send SMTP email using System.Net.Mail via Exchange Online (Office 365)

Question

We are testing the new Office 365 beta, and i have a mail account on the Exchange Online service. Now I\'m trying to connect a LOB application that can send smtp emails from

Answer 1

In year of 2020, these code seems to return exception as

System.Net.Mail.SmtpStatusCode.MustIssueStartTlsFirst or The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.7.57 SMTP; Client was not authenticated to send anonymous mail during MAIL FROM

This code is working for me.

            using (SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient()
            {
                Host = "smtp.office365.com",
                Port = 587,
                UseDefaultCredentials = false, // This require to be before setting Credentials property
                DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network,
                Credentials = new NetworkCredential("alias@fulldomain.com", "password"), // you must give a full email address for authentication 
                TargetName = "STARTTLS/smtp.office365.com", // Set to avoid MustIssueStartTlsFirst exception
                EnableSsl = true // Set to avoid secure connection exception
            })
            {

                MailMessage message = new MailMessage()
                {
                    From = new MailAddress("alias@fulldomain.com"), // sender must be a full email address
                    Subject = subject,
                    IsBodyHtml = true,
                    Body = "
Hello World
",
                    BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8,
                    SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8,

                };
                var toAddresses = recipients.Split(',');
                foreach (var to in toAddresses)
                {
                    message.To.Add(to.Trim());
                }

                try
                {
                    client.Send(message);
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                }
            }