Cannot send email through Hotmail / live.com / outlook.com
I have read other answers on the stackoverflow. but none of the solutions work for me.
I'm trying to send email through live.com, but unable to it.
The error message:
mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.3 requested action aborted;
user not authenticated
or error message:
System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Service not available,
closing transmission channel.
The server response was: Cannot connect to SMTP server 65.55.176.126
(65.55.176.126:587), NB connect error 1460
The code:
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
mail.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]");
mail.To.Add("[email protected]");
mail.Subject = "hello";
mail.Body = "awefkljj kawefl";
mail.IsBodyHtml = false;
SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient("smtp.live.com", 587);
smtp.EnableSsl = true;
smtp.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("[email protected]", "password");
smtp.Send(mail);
Are you able to send the email by using above code?
It works before, last year, but it is no more working now.
I'm not sure what has been changed to live.com email server.
What new settings or parameters should apply?
Answer
I ran into an issue where I was unable to send emails using the smtp.live.com SMTP server from certain hosts -- particulary Azure hosts. In my case, the SMTP attempt was from a host that I had never used to sign-in previously, so the attempt was blocked with the 5.7.3 error:
Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.3 requested action aborted; user not authenticated
The solution was to browse to the account settings, locate the SMTP request in its recent activity, and select "This was me":
