#Authentication

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Authentication in Computing is the process or action of verifying the identity of a user or process.

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Article David Hockenbroch · 13 hr ago 2m read

. . . you are not alone. 

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This took me a while to figure out, and I assume there may be others struggling too. I made my way through all the Entra stuff to set up a client credentials workflow to send email through a Microsoft 365 account. I was able to successfully retrieve my token, but I couldn't ever get it to authenticate with the SMTP server using the %Net.SMTP class. There were two parts to fixing this.

First, the authenticator's access token needs to be more than JUST the access token. It has to be formatted as:

set smtp.
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