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Windows Mail App does not work with Gmail accounts
Hi, I found the solution,
Open the google account setting, go to the Security tab then Sign to Google Account, then go to Security then App passwords, enter your password, go to select app, choose Mail, then choose Select device( Windows Computer ) and save the new generated password, Go to mail app in Windows 10 and in Microsoft mail add your account with the new given password ... finished
- Have a look to https://enzocontini.blog/2020/05/10/how-to-set-up-a-gmail-account-on-outlook-and-what-to-do-if-any-application-no-longer-works-with-a-google-authentication/#google
Yeah good blog-post there, Enzo enzocontini , I think I had already seen it. It's not exactly germane to my situation because my concern isn't so much about bypassing the (false) security concerns, as, it is about preventing messages from evaporating, or, at least, finding them after they do.
More important, I'm not excited about going through a lot of the rigamarole which you suggest in order to prevent the problems. The steps would probably work, but I've learned something about dealing with tech-giants -- don't force them. If you can't easily cause what you want, it's smarter to (a) figure out how to change your own goals and methods in order to better mesh with whichever options the tech-giants will readily give you, than (b) figure out how to force the tech-giants' options to somehow conform with your intended original goals and methods. Maybe you'll do otherwise. 🙂
Here's an interesting development. My two-GMail solution has stopped working. (I had created two identical log-ins to the MS Mail App, one through "other" and one through "Google" method, but both getting the same GMail address's messages.) Somehow GMail noticed that an extra log-in on MS Mail App was taking place and it flagged it as insecure. (This would probably be remedied by the steps in your blog.) It didn't flag BOTH as insecure, only the one created by "other". And it didn't initially flag that one as insecure when I first created it, but rather it allowed that one to run normally for almost a full day.
I'm scared of messing with it. I deleted the extra and have put things in a "normal" state, and I intend to follow my edict above (I change to accommodate their options, and I don't try to force them to accommodate mine).
Weird how it didn't "notice" the (false) insecurity until after a long delay, though ... right now, all the missing messages have been restored properly to the In-Box. Wonder when they'll start disappearing again.
