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Brass Contributor

Jan 25, 2024

Outlook.com is intermittently rejecting password

Outlook.com is intermittently rejecting the app password I created to access my IMAP account. Please fix this.

12 Replies

elbarbudo
Copper Contributor
Jan 26, 2024
"intermittently"should become "permantly".
I think that MS i deploying a new version which no more support login / password IMAP authentification....
- DomP66
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 27, 2024
  outlook.office365.com is currently rejecting about 50% of my login attempts with my app password, so it's intermittent for me.
  
  It's been recognised as a "known issue" now: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/outlook-and-other-apps-are-unable-to-connect-to-outlook-com-f4202ebf-89c6-4a8a-bec3-3d60cf7deaef
  - elbarbudo
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 27, 2024
    DomP66 For me it is more than 90% fails.
    I use crontab to check my account every 30 minutes with fetchmail.
    Since about one week I get more and more failures. Now I get only 3 or 4 successful login each day.
AartsR
Copper Contributor
Jan 25, 2024
DomP66Both TbSync (thunderbird plugin) and Outlook2013 are having a fit here as well. Widespread indeed.
- DomP66
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 26, 2024
  AartsR but unfortunately not widespread enough for Microsoft to list the issue on their service status page.
mjwills
Copper Contributor
Jan 25, 2024
DomP66 Clearly a widespread issue. See warning at top of https://support.getmailbird.com/hc/en-us/requests/new .
- DomP66
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 25, 2024
  mjwills yes, and it seems like it affects app passwords rather than "modern authentication" (Oauth2). I would use Oauth2 if Fetchmail supported it.

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