Send emails with Symfony Mailer through Outlook / office365 with OAuth

README.md

Update: We are trying to improve the setup in Symfony to make most of this gist hopefully not needed anymore (except the token provider): symfony/symfony#52585

I banged my head against this for a while, but finally got it to work.

What you need to set this up:

• the user name (= email address) of your email account
• tenant id for your email account (a uuid)
• client id for your email account (a uuid)
• a secret token for oauth (for me that was 40 characters long)

I then set up the following services (let me know if there is a more elegant way of setting this up with symfony mailer - i did not see how else i can dynamically do the oauth2 login to get a fresh token)

services:
    App\Infrastructure\Email\Office365OAuthTokenProvider:
        $tenant: '%env(resolve:EMAIL_TENANT)%'
        $clientId: '%env(resolve:EMAIL_CLIENT_ID)%'
        $clientSecret: '%env(resolve:EMAIL_CLIENT_SECRET)%'

    App\Infrastructure\Email\OAuthEsmtpTransportFactoryDecorator:
        decorates: mailer.transport_factory.smtp
        arguments:
            $inner: '@.inner'
            $authenticator: '@App\Infrastructure\Email\XOAuth2Authenticator'

and in .env set up the variables:

### symfony/mailer ###
# Username is the full email address. Need to urlencode the "@" in the username.
MAILER_DSN=smtp://email%40domain.com:@smtp.office365.com:587
###< symfony/mailer ###
EMAIL_TENANT=cafebabe-cafe-babe-cafe-babecafebabe
EMAIL_CLIENT_ID=cafebabe-cafe-babe-cafe-babecafebabe
EMAIL_CLIENT_SECRET=

And at runtime inject the right secret token.

OAuthEsmtpTransportFactoryDecorator.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Infrastructure\Email;

use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Dsn;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Smtp\Auth\AuthenticatorInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Smtp\EsmtpTransport;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Smtp\EsmtpTransportFactory;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\TransportFactoryInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\TransportInterface;

readonly class OAuthEsmtpTransportFactoryDecorator implements TransportFactoryInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private EsmtpTransportFactory $inner,
        private AuthenticatorInterface $authenticator,
    ) {
    }

    public function create(Dsn $dsn): TransportInterface
    {
        $transport = $this->inner->create($dsn);
        if (!$transport instanceof EsmtpTransport) {
            return $transport;
        }
        $transport->setAuthenticators([$this->authenticator]);

        return $transport;
    }

    public function supports(Dsn $dsn): bool
    {
        return $this->inner->supports($dsn);
    }
}

Office365OAuthTokenProvider.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Infrastructure\Email;

use GuzzleHttp\UriTemplate\UriTemplate;
use Nyholm\Psr7\Factory\Psr17Factory;
use Psr\Http\Client\ClientInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Cache\CacheItem;
use Symfony\Contracts\Cache\CacheInterface;

final class Office365OAuthTokenProvider
{
    private const OAUTH_URL = 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/oauth2/v2.0/token';
    private const SCOPE = 'https://outlook.office365.com/.default';
    private const GRANT_TYPE = 'client_credentials';
    private const CACHE_KEY = 'email-token';

    public function __construct(
        private readonly ClientInterface $httpClient,
        private readonly Psr17Factory $psr17Factory,
        private readonly string $tenant,
        private readonly string $clientId,
        #[\SensitiveParameter]
        private readonly string $clientSecret,
        // set up some persistent cache for this, e.g. redis - to avoid having to re-authenticate with oauth2 all the time
        private readonly CacheInterface $cache,
    ) {
    }

    public function getToken(): string
    {
        return $this->cache->get(self::CACHE_KEY, [$this, 'fetchToken']);
    }

    public function fetchToken(CacheItem $cacheItem): string
    {
        $data = [
            'client_id' => $this->clientId,
            'client_secret' => $this->clientSecret,
            'scope' => self::SCOPE,
            'grant_type' => self::GRANT_TYPE,
        ];

        $body = $this->psr17Factory->createStream(http_build_query($data));
        $request = $this->psr17Factory->createRequest('POST', UriTemplate::expand(self::OAUTH_URL, [
            'tenant' => $this->tenant,
        ]))
            ->withHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
            ->withBody($body)
        ;

        $response = $this->httpClient->sendRequest($request);
        if (200 !== $response->getStatusCode()) {
            throw new \RuntimeException('Failed to fetch oauth token from microsoft: '.$response->getBody());
        }
        $auth = json_decode((string) $response->getBody(), true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);

        $cacheItem->expiresAfter($auth['expires_in'] - 60); // substracting 60 seconds from the TTL as a safety margin to certainly not use an expiring token.

        return $auth['access_token'];
    }
}

XOAuth2Authenticator.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Infrastructure\Email;

use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Smtp\Auth\AuthenticatorInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Smtp\EsmtpTransport;

/**
 * Adapted from Symfony\Component\Mailer\Transport\Smtp\Auth\XOAuth2Authenticator but getting the token dynamically.
 */
readonly class XOAuth2Authenticator implements AuthenticatorInterface
{
    public function __construct(
        private Office365OAuthTokenProvider $tokenProvider,
    ) {
    }

    public function getAuthKeyword(): string
    {
        return 'XOAUTH2';
    }

    /**
     * @see https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/xoauth2_protocol#the_sasl_xoauth2_mechanism
     */
    public function authenticate(EsmtpTransport $client): void
    {
        $client->executeCommand('AUTH XOAUTH2 '.base64_encode('user='.$client->getUsername()."\1auth=Bearer ".$this->tokenProvider->getToken()."\1\1")."\r\n", [235]);
    }
}

Ran into the same issue as described above, followed these steps in this article and managed to make it work :)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/legacy-protocols/how-to-authenticate-an-imap-pop-smtp-application-by-using-oauth

@dbu Hello, for some reason I don't know, Symfony tries to send the mail on its own before reaching the code you provided. Do you have any idea why ?
Can you be more specific about the IDs used ? I created an application on Azure, set the IDs in the env variables, but I still get an authentication unsuccessful.