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    Resolved [RESOLVED] VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    My program wants to email users on an interval. I have implemented email from VB6 using the MS CDO libraries and found a lot of posts and pages regarding configuring it for various SMTP settings, including STARTTLS. Most of the information was lacking but I have found no better guide than this one here:

    https://codekabinett.com/rdumps.php?...access-vba-cdo

    Of course I only found that guide after I had implemented my code. My program is all working and I can send emails successfully using Microsoft's servers via port 25 using SSL - but that post confirmed what I had suspected, ie. that STARTTLS is not supported.



    My question is: Apart from calling a powershell script (not much use in older versions of Windows) is there a better method of successfully contacting SMTP servers using STARTTLS from within VB6?

    I have looked at some of the winsock code that is available here but I haven't been able to get that to work and I don't have the confidence to build an email app this way. I have also discovered the OstroSoft SMTP Component that has a licence that allows unlimited usage for developing non-commercial applications. It seems to be the one with the most potential, being free - but I have not yet tested it.

    http://ostrosoft.com/ossmtp.aspx

    So, you chaps, any ideas as to what is the current best method for implementing email via SMTP and STARTTLS using VB6?

    PS. Of course I have seen the commercial 3rd party SMTP libraries and those that are very expensive are not within my reach at least not for this app.
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Crikey, I have never experienced such a silence on one of my questions. It must either be the Christmas holiday or the problem is a tricky one to resolve. Initially I was surprised but I assume that the complexities of a TLS connection are so great that no-one has yet come up with a solution using VB6 code.

    Do I have to write an email handler in VB.NET and then pass the task to that?
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Quote Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber View Post
    . . . but I assume that the complexities of a TLS connection are so great that no-one has yet come up with a solution using VB6 code.
    It's true TLS handling can be tricky but on top of that you'll need a full blown SMTP client which might be even trickier.

    Currently looking at urlproxyserver configuration field and wondering if CDO can be used to connect ot a localhost proxy which injects STARTTLS on the server connection leaving CDO oblivious it's accessing the server over TLS.

    This looks doable although nowhere is the kind of proxy documented. Could be some kind of CONNECT capable http/https proxy that is needed here or it could be SOCKS4/5 proxy -- no idea (yet).

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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Wqweto, is this something you are looking into for your own program coincidentally or a shortcoming of CDO that you have been aware of for a while and wanted to fix?

    I have heard that all (?) that is required is a STARTTLS command to be issued, it would seem strange that CDO has been abandoned by MS when it is so close to doing what is required.
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Here is an MITM SMTP proxy I just cobbled together that injects a STARTTLS right after client's EHLO

    Code:
    Option Explicit
    DefObj A-Z
    'Private Const MODULE_NAME As String = "cSmtpProxy"
    
    '=========================================================================
    ' Public events
    '=========================================================================
    
    Event RecvFromClient(Data() As Byte)
    Event RecvFromServer(Data() As Byte)
    
    '=========================================================================
    ' Constants and member variables
    '=========================================================================
    
    Private m_sServerAddress        As String
    Private m_lServerPort           As Long
    Private WithEvents m_oListen    As cTlsSocket
    Private WithEvents m_oClient    As cTlsSocket
    Private WithEvents m_oServer    As cTlsSocket
    
    '=========================================================================
    ' Properties
    '=========================================================================
    
    Public Property Get ServerAddress() As String
        ServerAddress = m_sServerAddress
    End Property
    
    Public Property Get ServerSocket() As cTlsSocket
        Set ServerSocket = m_oServer
    End Property
    
    Public Property Get ClientSocket() As cTlsSocket
        Set ClientSocket = m_oClient
    End Property
    
    '=========================================================================
    ' Methods
    '=========================================================================
    
    Public Function Init(sServerAddress As String, ByVal lServerPort As Long, ByVal lLocalPort As Long, Optional sLocalAddress As String) As Boolean
        m_sServerAddress = sServerAddress
        m_lServerPort = lServerPort
        Set m_oListen = New cTlsSocket
        If Not m_oListen.Create(lLocalPort, SocketAddress:=sLocalAddress) Then
            GoTo QH
        End If
        If Not m_oListen.Listen() Then
            GoTo QH
        End If
        '--- success
        Init = True
    QH:
    End Function
    
    Private Sub pvInjectStartTls(sText As String)
        If Left$(sText, 5) <> "EHLO " Then
            GoTo QH
        End If
        If Not m_oServer.SyncSendText(sText) Then
            GoTo QH
        End If
        sText = m_oServer.SyncReceiveText()
        If LenB(sText) = 0 Then
            GoTo QH
        End If
        sText = "STARTTLS" & vbCrLf
        If Not m_oServer.SyncSendText(sText) Then
            GoTo QH
        End If
        sText = m_oServer.SyncReceiveText()
        If LenB(sText) = 0 Then
            GoTo QH
        End If
        If Not m_oServer.SyncStartTls(m_sServerAddress) Then
            GoTo QH
        End If
    QH:
    End Sub
    
    '=========================================================================
    ' Socket events
    '=========================================================================
    
    Private Sub m_oListen_OnAccept()
        Set m_oServer = New cTlsSocket
        If Not m_oServer.Connect(m_sServerAddress, m_lServerPort, UseTls:=False) Then
            Set m_oServer = Nothing
            GoTo QH
        End If
        Set m_oClient = New cTlsSocket
        m_oListen.Accept m_oClient, UseTls:=False
    QH:
    End Sub
    
    Private Sub m_oServer_OnReceive()
        Dim baBuffer()      As Byte
        
        If m_oServer.ReceiveArray(baBuffer) Then
            RaiseEvent RecvFromServer(baBuffer)
            m_oClient.SendArray baBuffer
        End If
    End Sub
       
    Private Sub m_oClient_OnReceive()
        Dim baBuffer()      As Byte
        
        If m_oClient.ReceiveArray(baBuffer) Then
            pvInjectStartTls StrConv(baBuffer, vbUnicode)
            RaiseEvent RecvFromClient(baBuffer)
            m_oServer.SendArray baBuffer
        End If
    End Sub
    
    Private Sub m_oClient_OnClose()
        m_oServer.Close_
    End Sub
    This is how to start the SMTP proxy on localhost port 10025

    Code:
    Option Explicit
    
    Private m_oProxy As cSmtpProxy
    
    Private Sub Form_Load()
        Set m_oProxy = New cSmtpProxy
        If Not m_oProxy.Init("smtp.gmail.com", 25, 10025) Then
            GoTo QH
        End If
    QH:
    End Sub
    This is how to use CDO to send mail using the localhost SMTP proxy on port 10025

    Code:
    Private Sub pvSendMail()
        Const CONFIG As String = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/"
        
        Dim oMsg As Object
        Set oMsg = CreateObject("CDO.message")
        With oMsg.Configuration.Fields
            .Item(CONFIG & "sendusing") = 2
            .Item(CONFIG & "smtpserver") = "127.0.0.1"
            .Item(CONFIG & "smtpserverport") = 10025
            .Item(CONFIG & "smtpauthenticate") = 1
            .Item(CONFIG & "sendusername") = "***@gmail.com"
            .Item(CONFIG & "sendpassword") = "***"
            .Update
        End With
        With oMsg
            .To = "***@saas.bg"
            .From = "***@gmail.com"
            .Subject = "the email subject"
            .TextBody = "the full message body goes here. you may want to create a variable to hold the text"
            .Send
        End With
    End Sub
    The sample code above uses STARTTLS on smtp.gmail.com port 25. Without the proxy CDO fails on plaintext port 25 because gmail requires STARTTLS secure connection before sending auth and CDO does not work with STARTTLS natively (no matter all the false claims on the internet).

    You'll need to add TLS support in your project from VbAsyncSocket repo e.g. cAsyncSocket, cTlsSocket and mdTlsNative modules.

    cheers,
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    You just cobbled that together? I don't know what to say. I'll be back in a week when I've attempted to pull that into my proj. Thankyou.
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Quote Originally Posted by yereverluvinuncleber View Post
    You just cobbled that together? I don't know what to say. I'll be back in a week when I've attempted to pull that into my proj. Thankyou.
    It's ~100 LOC and is *the* only solution for doing STARTTLS with CDO so this topic will become popular -- I just made sure the code does not look like a hot mess.

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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    I may be doing this wrong but this is what I have achieved so far:

    I created a small application called mitmProxy with your code above - and the module mdTlsNative and class modules, cAsyncSocket, cTlsSocket. It runs no problem at all and I can see by running:

    Code:
     netstat - an | more
    - that it is listening on port 10025.

    So, I believe I have a working mitm program operating from behind a standard VB form sitting on the desktop. I have made no changes to your code.

    My own program' s CDO config was amended to talk to port 10025 and the mimtProxy appears to respond to the data coming though that port. The mimtProxy program has been amended to show a text box that tells me what the program is currently doing by reporting the routine it is currently running. The CDO config in my program passes the username and password for a gmail SMTP server using details that have been tested and which operate successfully in normal SSL mode on port 465 when using Thunderbird as a client, so I know the test account is working.

    However, In the line that initiates the mimtProxy it does not matter if I use port 25 as suggested or another port, it seems to acknowledge receipt of the connection and handles it, then shortly afterward an error is generated.

    Error -2147220973 (The transport failed to connect to the server.
    ) in procedure SendEmail of Form FireCallPrefs

    Just describing what I have done so far so that if I have made any glaring mistakes it should be obvious.

    I am currently doing some digging to see if I can discern where the problem lies.
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Yes, it just worked. Mine didn't, yours did immediately. I will look into why and test mine and fix.
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    it works fine with outlook but with gmail I had problems.
    good job wqweto

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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Quote Originally Posted by yokesee View Post
    it works fine with outlook but with gmail I had problems.
    You might need to setup an App Password to access gmail's SMTP servers with a 2FA enabled google account.

    This is what I used to test the proxy here as I do have 2FA enabled through Google Authenticator on my phone.

    Code:
    < 220 smtp.gmail.com ESMTP z18sm2746829lfd.8 - gsmtp
    > EHLO wqwpc
    < 250-smtp.gmail.com at your service, [77.238.66.165]
      250-SIZE 35882577
      250-8BITMIME
      250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH2 PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN OAUTHBEARER XOAUTH
      250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
      250-PIPELINING
      250-CHUNKING
      250 SMTPUTF8
    > AUTH LOGIN
    < 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
    > ****
    < 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
    > ****
    < 235 2.7.0 Accepted
    > MAIL FROM: <wqweto@gmail.com>
    < 250 2.1.0 OK z18sm2746829lfd.8 - gsmtp
    > RCPT TO: <***@saas.bg>
    < 250 2.1.5 OK z18sm2746829lfd.8 - gsmtp
    > DATA
    < 354  Go ahead z18sm2746829lfd.8 - gsmtp
    > thread-index: Adf+OxGXt+zb0tqDS0OHjRMIJ+6QhQ==
      Thread-Topic: subj 5
      From: <wqweto@gmail.com>
      To: <***@saas.bg>
      Subject: subj 5
      Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 13:39:28 +0200
      Message-ID: <C38291BECED849FD83FEB49D22A90699@ucs.local>
      MIME-Version: 1.0
      Content-Type: text/plain
      Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
      X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
      Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
      Importance: normal
      Priority: normal
      X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE
      
      proba 5
      .
    < 250 2.0.0 OK  1640950769 z18sm2746829lfd.8 - gsmtp
    > QUIT
    < 221 2.0.0 closing connection z18sm2746829lfd.8 - gsmtp
    cheers,
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    works perfectly thank you very much

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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    this works for me, I use Win10 with Outlook (Office2010)

    Code:
    Private Sub Command1_Click()
    Dim objMessage As CDO.Message
    Dim objConf As CDO.Configuration
    Dim strBody As String
    Const cdoSendUsingPickup = 1 'Send message using the local SMTP service pickup directory.
    Const cdoSendUsingPort = 2 'Send the message using the network (SMTP over the network).
    
    Const cdoAnonymous = 0 'Do not authenticate
    Const cdoBasic = 1 'basic (clear-text) authentication
    Const cdoNTLM = 2 'NTLM
    
    Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
    Set objConf = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")
    
    '==This section provides the configuration information for the remote SMTP server.
    
    objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
    
    'Name or IP of Remote SMTP Server
    objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "securesmtp.t-online.de"
    
    'Type of authentication, NONE, Basic (Base64 encoded), NTLM
    objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = cdoBasic
    
    'Your UserID on the SMTP server
    objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "myEmail@t-online.de"
    
    'Your password on the SMTP server
    objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "myPassword"
    
    'Server port (typically 25)
    objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 465
    
    'Use SSL for the connection (False or True)
    objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = True
    
    'Connection Timeout in seconds (the maximum time CDO will try to establish a connection to the SMTP server)
    objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
    ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 10
    
    'objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update
    
    strBody = "This is a sample message." & vbCrLf
    strBody = strBody & "It was sent using CDO." & vbCrLf
    
    
    objMessage.To = "someEmail@t-online.de"
    objMessage.From = "myEmail@t-online.de"
    objMessage.Subject = "This is a CDO test message"
    objMessage.TextBody = strBody
    'add Attachment
    objMessage.AddAttachment "D:\TestFolder\Data1.xml"
    objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update
    objConf.Fields.Update
    
    '==End remote SMTP server configuration section==
    
    objMessage.Send
    Set objMessage = Nothing
    End Sub
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    @ChrisE: Using smtpusessl=True setting instructs CDO to directly start TLS secure session on connection initiation.

    The STARTTLS approach is different (legacy) and allows for initial plaintext connection which is later negotiated/upgraded to TLS secure session.

    CDO does not support STARTTLS negotiation and that's what this proxy exactly tries to fix by injecting STARTTLS negotiation in SMTP traffic.

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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Wqweto's code is extremely useful for implementing STARTTLS using CDO and VB6.
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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Quote Originally Posted by wqweto View Post
    Here is a full working sample project: SmtpProxyTest.zip

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    Can we .AddAttachment ?

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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Quote Originally Posted by wqweto View Post
    Did you try to? Post here if it’s not working.
    Yes sir, I tried and it gave me an error. I can post the exact message later for you. Thanks for your help. Everything works fine when I send on 465, just need to include an attachment.

    Joe

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    Re: [RESOLVED] VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Can you send the same attachment file through gmail’s web interface? Is the file too big or flagged as virus?

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    Re: [RESOLVED] VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    It's a small PDF. I have been sending through CDO forever without issue. Then our domain went and made us upgrade to starttls :/ I can't 587 to save my life, even with your code but your code will let me send 465 which is just fine. But can't attach.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    I just tested .AddAttachment with a 40KB PDF file and there is no problem with the proxy on my machine using smtp.gmail.com for outgoing server.

    Can you send the PDF file which is failing with you using Outlook or other mail application with support for STARTTLS? It could be blocked by the SMTP server you are talking to.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Ok thanks again. I'll try later tonight and get back to you. I appreciate the help.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Runtime error 438 object doesn't support this property or method.
    oMsg.addattachment = "c:\test.pdf"

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    Re: [RESOLVED] VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    And I'm dumb. It's addattatchment ("file"), not =

    Sorry for your trouble and ty so much for the code.

    Joe

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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Quote Originally Posted by wqweto View Post
    Here is a full working sample project: SmtpProxyTest.zip

    cheers,
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    Would love to have your working example but unfortunately the link is dead.

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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Quote Originally Posted by jbutnervb View Post
    Would love to have your working example but unfortunately the link is dead.
    Works for me here (and everywhere).

    Btw, you can use https://archive.org to snapshot it for you and then immediately download it from their servers.

    I mean when your internet connection is filtered/crappy just use common sense.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    That's weird... I tried to grab it earlier and also got a 404. Tried to grab it through archive.org too with no luck, then searched for the filename also without luck. But just now it worked.

    Edit: Hah, I'm not crazy, I had an open tab still showing as of a few hours ago it wasn't on archive.org, and you can see the tabs where I was poking around the site looking for an updated link in the top right.

    https://imgur.com/mg3Pcon
    Last edited by fafalone; Sep 23rd, 2023 at 08:30 AM.

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    Re: VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    Quote Originally Posted by wqweto View Post
    Works for me here (and everywhere).

    Btw, you can use https://archive.org to snapshot it for you and then immediately download it from their servers.

    I mean when your internet connection is filtered/crappy just use common sense.

    cheers,
    </wqw>
    I was finally able to download this once I allowed the site in Malwarebytes. For some reason Malwarebytes did not like it.

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    Re: [RESOLVED] VB6 QUESTION: CDO Email Guide and STARTTLS

    There's no binaries in it, so not sure why MWB would be acting up on it.

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