June 28, 20242 yr 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?
June 30, 20242 yr 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?
July 1, 20242 yr Author 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.
July 1, 20242 yr Solution 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
July 3, 20242 yr Author 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.
July 3, 20242 yr 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.
October 10, 20241 yr well, it seems to not work anymore for me. I have been using app password for a bit now. I had to create a new app password about 1month ago, it stopped working maybe a little bit over a week ago. So I then proceeded to create a new app password in outlook, but this time it doesn't work. This is annoying. I can't create app password in gmail either.
October 10, 20241 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, warwolf7 said: I can't create app password in gmail either. It's been working fro me for yeas with a Google app password.
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