Read mailbox emails and save attachments using Python/C# in windows server

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I got a mailbox Application@mycompany.com from my office that will receive emails from various customers. My application (deployed in windows server) will read all emails and save attachments.

Do I need to configure outlook in windows server?

What I have tried:

Saw references in google but username & password is not being used. Looking for code which will read email in server.

Posted 2-Jun-21 20:23pm

RAHUL(10217975)

Updated 2-Jun-21 22:35pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2021-06-02T21:15:00

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Do I need to configure outlook in windows server?

Only if you want to use it to read the emails. If you are doing it straight from code then your program needs to talk direct to the mail server. Google finds many samples that explain what you need to do: python read mail - Google Search[^]

Richard Deeming · Answer 2 · 2021-06-02T22:35:00

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For C# code, I would recommend using MailKit:
GitHub - jstedfast/MailKit: A cross-platform .NET library for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP.[^]

Posted 2-Jun-21 22:35pm

Richard Deeming

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RAHUL(10217975) 3-Jun-21 13:21pm

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried this with below code:

client.Connect("outlook.office365.com", 993, true);
client.Authenticate("commonmailbox@mycompany.com", "mypass");

It throws Login failed exception. I am using https://outlook.office.com/mail/inbox
And I could see ouath2 being called so no sure whether we have any API's that will
authenticate my account

Richard Deeming 4-Jun-21 4:12am

You have to use the SaslMechanismOAuth2 to authenticate. There's a discussion on how in the GitHub issues:
Office365 IMAP/POP basic auth retirement October 2020 · Issue #989 · jstedfast/MailKit · GitHub[^]