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PMMail (Thunderbird) can't access POP outlook.office365.com (soon gmail.com)

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Guillaume Gay:
Bonjour to all,

This message to inform you that PMMail, among other mail clients, can't access "outlook.office365.com" via POP/SMTP protocols (via Stunnel) anymore, due to the activation of two-factor authentication.
This will soon be the case for the access to GMail.com starting May 30th.

This marks  the end of using of PMMail for me. And this will force me to use the web mail of the providers :-\ and not on OS/2  :'(

I still have to find an alternative to ETeller and I'll probably phase out my old OS/2 (eCS) machine.

Have a nice day you all!
--
Guillaume GAY

Dave Yeo:
You can't use your phone for the 2 factor authentication by manually copying the code over?
With Thunderbird and Gmail, they recently forced me to use an app password, IIRC, I had to use my phone for the two factor part and replace my password with a new one time one, then it was back to working fine here. See https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255 and the link towards the bottom of the page, "Use an App Password"
But yes, our operating system and old mail clients are likely to get phased out in the name of security.

Neil Waldhauer:
I'll add that Apple iCloud mail has been on two-factor authentication for years. It works fine in Thunderbird, and probably would work in PMMail.

Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hmm...interesting because I have been using Thunderbird here with my Gmail account and had the 2-way authentication turned on quite some time ago.

Google does have a process in place (application password) that will allow you to define app-specific password that the application can authenticate with. Works quite fine with TB, I only wish the Google Contacts add-on would handle that...

Can't speak to PMMail, but I suppose that should apply as well given that you need to provide ID/PASS credentials there as well.

Remy:

--- Quote from: Guillaume Gay on March 07, 2022, 10:41:03 pm ---Bonjour to all,

This message to inform you that PMMail, among other mail clients, can't access "outlook.office365.com" via POP/SMTP protocols (via Stunnel) anymore, due to the activation of two-factor authentication.
This will soon be the case for the access to GMail.com starting May 30th.

This marks  the end of using of PMMail for me. And this will force me to use the web mail of the providers :-\ and not on OS/2  :'(

I still have to find an alternative to ETeller and I'll probably phase out my old OS/2 (eCS) machine.

Have a nice day you all!
--
Guillaume GAY

--- End quote ---

Salut Guillaume,

It works for me using the new authentification process but it wasn't well at first try.
I had to have Firefox up before trying thunderbird auth if I well remember...

Coucou à Vincent
@+
Rémy

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