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Gmail less secure apps being locked down
On May 30, 2022 Google is locking down "less secure apps". See Google's announcement here: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en I'm using Outlook 2019, ad use Gmail via Outlook...
Please see the solution that I posted on May 08th at 11:08 AM. My Outlook 2010 is still working fine, so this solution appears to work, at least for me. Disclaimer: I have ZERO tech background. Not an IT person. I use Windows 10 Home Version 21H2. The exact steps might be slightly different for other versions of Windows.
Peter
Peter
I'm using Microsoft Office Professional 2016. The 2010 solution didn't work. I've spoken to some former colleagues, and they seem to feel that going to a 16 character password would work across the board.
I've been retired from the I.T. field for 12 years, but just can't seem to get away from problem solving for friends and family.
hello sir
I am checking to see if you have resolved your outlook problem
be very careful about creating a new outlook profile
this can leave you with a damaged account that can take hours to put back together
I am not sure if posting my email address is proper but having been in this system for
years here we go
If anyone needs help email me [Email removed by Admin] I will help.
Stewart Goodin
- Hi Stewart,
Yes, my issue has been resolved. Your solution worked. Thanks.
PeterPeter_RosnerI am sorry to report that sometime after 5:39PM EDT yesterday 6/6/22 (the anniversary of D-Day), Google began again to refuse to accept my username and password when my MS Outlook logs-on to download my emails from my gmail account. So, at this point updated server addresses and a 24 character passwords are no longer a work-around to deflect Google's demand for a 2 factor authorization scheme and, presumably, the only second factor they will accept is a working personal cell phone number.
So 3 comments:
1) The price for a free gmail account is the surrender of your personal identity
2) Google is right - MS Outlook is a less secure app - Google has the ability to beak the security I have put in place and has willfully denied me the use of this app that I use to retrieve and store my emails on my own computer, demanding that I accept its escalated and arbitrary terms. Clearly MS Outlook cannot provide the security I need against a big tech giant like Google or Alphabet or whoever they are
3) And they are so big that I fear - with the phone companies - soon no electronic communications will be secure. They will own all our emails, all our texts, all our phone conversations, all our digitally transmitted images. They will be able to search and produce them at will - they will be able to erase, alter or invent them at will - in short, there is no longer any legal framework left robust enough to really protect a free American citizen, not, at least, against the likes of these people. We are each on our own and our only option is to join a tribe that we hope can provide some protection.
- My issue has been resolved. Here are the steps that I took:
In Outlook, changed server settings to point to pop.googlemail.com and smtp.googlemail.com File>Account Settings>Server Settings.
When that did not resolve the issue, I logged into my GMAIL account, and changed my password from 12 to 16 characters.
Restarted Outlook (Microsoft Professional Version 2016) and when prompted, entered my new 16 character GMAIL password.
Outlook started the sync process at that point.
I have not encountered any other issues using Outlook 2016 since then.- Doesn't work for Outlook 2010 😞
- My solution appears to be the same as the solution previously posted by Stewart Goodin on Apr 08 2022 at 01:09 PM. Not having an I.T. background I did not understand his solution when I first read it. It works for me.
Peter
