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This blog post covers from start to finish the process for getting a desktop application working with GMail using the IMAP protocol with OAuth2 authentication. Start here: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials (1) The first step is to create credentials. Your app is a desktop application. HOWEVER, you will be creating credentials as if your app is a web app. See this YouTube video […]
If Apple Mail displays the warning “Unable to verify message signature”, and when clicking details it says: The digital signature is incorrect. The message may have been tampered with or corrupted since signed by (sender’s name). the reason is due to a bug in Apple Mail (possibly introduced in a recent version of MacOSX). See https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/343251/apple-mail-warning-unable-to-verify-message-signature “When Mail is set […]
The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.82 Release Notes The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.84 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.83 Release Notes 25-Mar-2020 SHA3: Added the SHA3 hash algorithms: sha3-224, sha3-256, sha3-384, sha3-512. The SHA3 hash algorithms may generally be used in any property or method of any Chilkat class where a hash algorithm is specified. 25-Mar-2020 MailMan: Added OAuth2 […]
Question: I need to setup a page in Classic ASP to serve as a webhook endpoint listener in Classic ASP The form product we are using (Paperform) posts the data to our endpoint as a JSON post payload. https://help.paperform.co/en/articles/2073207-how-to-use-webhooks Submission payload Webhooks POST a JSON payload on submission to the webhook URL. The JSON payload looks like the following: { “data”: […]
A Chilkat customer uses Chilkat HTTP to send REST API requests to a popular IP Geolocation service. The REST API requests worked a few times, but then started failing with this error information in Http.LastErrorText: ConnectFailReason: Connection rejected A few possible causes for a connection being rejected are: – A firewall (software or hardware), such as Windows Firewall, is blocking […]
Question: I’m trying to send email using SMTP via smtp.office365.com, and I get this error: 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SendAsDeniedException.MapiExceptionSendAsDenied; Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Cannot submit message. 0.35250:0A001485, 1.36674:0A000000, 1.61250:00000000, 1.45378:02000000, 1.44866:59020000, 1.36674:0E000000, 1.61250:00000000, 1.45378:5E020000, 1.44866:F8000000, 16.55847:BC030000, 17.43559:0000000024020000000000000000000000000000, 20.52176:140FFA8B1500001000000000, 20.50032:140FFA8B8517001000000000, 0.35180:F1030000, 255.23226:09000000, 255.27962:0A000000, 255.27962:0E000000, 255.31418:F1030000, 0.35250:0300C981, 1.36674:0A000000, 1.61250:00000000, 1.45378:02000000, 1.44866:3A000000, 1.36674:32000000, 1.61250:00000000, 1.45378:3F000000, 1.44866:01000000, 16.55847:A6000000, […]
Problem: A Chilkat FoxPro programmer was calling Rest.FullRequestSbAsync with a 3MB request. It failed with a WSAECONNABORTED error message. However, calling Rest.FullRequestSb works fine. Why? Answer: When the async version of a method is called, Chilkat is starting a background thread to call the synchronous version of the method. For example, the Async method returns a Task object. When task.Run […]
A Chilkat ActiveX user (in VB6) was struggling with a “Permission denied (Error 70)”. It occurred on the very first call to a Chilkat method (UnlockBundle). Solution: The solution is that the ActiveX DLL somehow did not have read + execute permissions. The 1st access to a method in the ActiveX triggered the runtime to load the DLL, and this […]
Here is a bash shell script for downloading, unpacking, installing, and testing the 64-bit PHP 7.4 extension for Chilkat. 1) It assumes PHP 7.4 was installed to $HOME/phps/php74. 2) This example is downloading Chilkat version 9.5.0.82 (change the wget URL to the latest version) export PATH=$HOME/phps/php74/bin:$PATH php -v cd if [ ! -d testing ]; then mkdir testing fi cd […]
If SMTP authentication (using login/password) fails for your smtp.office365.com account, then it may be that your account is configured to require MFA (multi-factor authentication). You may need to change settings to allow for legacy authentication (single-factor auth). See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/block-legacy-authentication Also, an app password may be required. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/user-help/multi-factor-authentication-end-user-app-passwords