Forum Discussion
New Authentication for email from September 2024
It appears there may be a way to restore the functionality in send only devices. It appears that, after enabling two factor authentication and enabling passwordless sign-in, you get a field to create device specific passwords for apps and devices that don’t support two factor authentication. However, I have been unable to get it to work with a canon printer thus far. It appears gmail, apple and a couple of others have this similar functionality. I may have to try one of those to see if I can get it to work there, to prove out whether Canon or Microsoft is tripping up. The printer did work prior to Microsoft closing the door on the older sign in security.
Chris
Follow-up:
I tried a number of things to try and get the Microsoft app password method to work, on a Canon printer in my case, without success. It is my suspicion that the new TLS security level has also been applied to the app password area, which has defeated the whole point of the app password concept.
To confirm that the device had not failed in some odd fashion, I used a email provider that was not Microsoft and also had the app password method for non two factor capable devices/older security level devices and all worked as before. Until either app password functionality is fixed or Canon does a significant firmware update on their printers to improve the security of TLS this seems to be the only solution at this time.
