Notification Settings - SMTP Settings - Less Secure Authentication

[talonserver]

Yeah I know, I should probably not be using this, but I did... I'm using an Outlook.com account to send notifications from my Unraid server. This morning I received an email from Microsoft that says that in September access will be disabled. Not to the account mind you, but clients using "a less secure authentication method."

I knew this was coming, but not that I'm here I'm not sure what to do as I'd rather not set up yet another account for push notifications... or am I going to have to?

[wgstarks]

I don’t have any suggestions for you but I’m curious what Microsoft’s reasoning is that they consider an SSL/TLS connection to be insecure?

[talonserver]

As far as I'm aware... Microsoft wants two factor, so not username and password over SMTP any longer. They made this change in Outlook desktop/other email clients some years ago.

[wgstarks]

I only use Outlook at work because I don’t get a choice so not really an expert but maybe you can still use app passwords.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/how-to-get-and-use-app-passwords-5896ed9b-4263-e681-128a-a6f2979a7944

[talonserver]

On 6/30/2024 at 10:02 PM, wgstarks said:

I only use Outlook at work because I don’t get a choice so not really an expert but maybe you can still use app passwords.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/how-to-get-and-use-app-passwords-5896ed9b-4263-e681-128a-a6f2979a7944

Ah, I had forgotten about those. That's probably the solution. I'll find out when they mandate it in September, but Unraid was able to send a test message with the app password.

[wgstarks]

I read the support doc I linked and there isn’t anything there yet saying that this feature was being removed. Doesn’t mean that can’t change though I guess.