See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/legacy-protocols/how-to-authenticate-an-imap-pop-smtp-application-by-using-oauth#use-client-credentials-grant-flow In my opinion, this is still too complicated. An “easy button” is needed.
This post documents how to implement Modern Authentication (OAuth2) for Office365 for the IMAP, POP3, and SMTP protocols. The very first thing you’ll need to do is to create an “App Registration” in Azure Active Directory. See this Chilkat blog post for Instructions for Setting Up an App Registration in Azure for Modern Authentication for IMAP, SMTP, and POP3. It’s […]
1) Go to https://portal.azure.com/#home and login to your Microsoft account. then go to Azure Active Directory. 2) Click On App Registrations * Copy your Tenant ID, you’ll need it later. 3) Click on “+ New registration” 4) Name your App and Click Register. Give it a name. For the Redirect URI, select “Web” and then use “http://localhost:3017/”. Your application […]
This example demonstrates how to use Chilkat to connect to many IMAP accounts in parallel to do something..
You passed the correct login/password to login to imap.gmail.com, but you still get an “Invalid credentials” error. What gives? For example, you called Chilkat’s Imap.Login method, passing the correct login/password, and the imap.LastErrorText contains this: authenticateLogin(110ms): loginImap(110ms): ConnectionType: SSL/TLS ImapCmdSent: aaab LOGIN “you@gmail.com” getCompleteResponse(110ms): ImapCmdResp: aaab NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials (Failure) –getCompleteResponse –loginImap isOK: serverResponse: aaab NO [AUTHENTICATIONFAILED] Invalid credentials […]
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 […]
There is much confusion and worry about Microsoft’s plans to disable standard password authentication for the IMAP, and POP3 protocols. Here is the announcement posted on 20-Sept-2019 on the Office 365 blog: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/end-of-support-for-basic-authentication-access-to-exchange-online-apis-for-office-365-customers/ Chilkat already supports OAuth2 for the IMAP, POP3, and SMTP protocols. (Microsoft will continue to support basic auth for SMTP) In all three protocols, an application can […]
Added the IdleStart, IdleDone, and IdleCheck methods to the IMAP API. See the online reference documentation for details.
Fixed Imap.SetFlag so that it returns a failed status if the IMAP server response is something other than “OK”.
Added Imap.SendRawCommandB method. It is the same as SendRawCommand but returns bytes instead of a string. Also fixed Imap.FetchAttachment so that it adheres to the PeekMode property.