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DomP66
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. 
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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....
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    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
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      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.

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        DomP66
        Brass Contributor
        Jan 27, 2024
        Greetings fellow Fetchmail crontab user! Ultimately we need OAuth2 support on Fetchmail, but the developers sadly seem reluctant.

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