MATLAB: How to retrieve emails from Microsoft Exchange

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How do I retrieve emails from Microsoft Exchange and not just my local machine?

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To get emails from Microsoft Exchange you will need to authenticate using OAuth. MATLAB does not directly support OAuth authentication; instead you will need to use the Outlook REST API with MATLAB's webread and webwrite commands.

Documentation on the REST API is available here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/rest/get-started

You can use the following examples to see how to do OAuth with MATLAB's HTTP interface, and webread/webwrite:

https://blogs.mathworks.com/developer/2017/02/07/connect-to-twitter-with-oauth-over-http-interface/

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/264403-how-can-i-access-an-api-which-requires-oauth-2-0-authorization-such-as-google-apis

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MATLAB: How to use SENDMAIL to send email from MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a) via the GMail server or Yahoo server

This change has been incorporated into the documentation in Release 2011a (R2011a). For previous releases, read below for any additional information:

To send email using SENDMAIL via the GMail/Yahoo server, you can execute the following in the MATLAB Prompt:

Gmail Server:

% Define these variables appropriately:

mail = 'sendemail.example.mathworks@gmail.com'; %Your GMail email address
password = 'testing1234';  %Your GMail password
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','smtp.gmail.com');

Yahoo Server:

% Define these variables appropriately:
mail = 'sendemail.example_mathworks@yahoo.com'; %Your Yahoo email address
password = 'testing1234';  %Your Yahoo password
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Server','smtp.mail.yahoo.com');

Gmail/Yahoo Servers:

setpref('Internet','E_mail',mail);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Username',mail);
setpref('Internet','SMTP_Password',password);
props = java.lang.System.getProperties;
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.auth','true');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.class', 'javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory');
props.setProperty('mail.smtp.socketFactory.port','465');
% Send the email.  Note that the first input is the address you are sending the email to
sendmail(mail,'Test from MATLAB','Hello! This is a test from MATLAB!')

In R2013a, the following command might also resolve the issue:

props.setProperty('mail.smtp.starttls.enable','true');

Note that the above commands are undocumented and may change in future MATLAB releases. Also, note that SENDMAIL does not support servers that require username and password authentications in MATLAB 7.1 (R14SP3) and before and hence the above commands will not work with those releases.

MATLAB: How to add an authorization header with a space in the value, to an http request

Sorry for the delay, but yes I had found it a bit later. There is actually a way to add an arbitrary header, using this:

header = matlab.net.http.field.GenericField("Authorization", "api-key aznfkjndjnsn=");
r = matlab.net.http.RequestMessage('post', header, matlab.net.http.MessageBody(my_body));

This way it worked, it added an "Authorization" header without caring about the space.

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