Gmail using Windows Live Mail after May 30, 2022

Anonymous
2022-03-19T13:57:32+00:00

Can someone tell me how to set up to use Windows Live Mail for Gmail after the May 30, 2022 Gmail changes. There is something I have read about "app passwords" which sounds a lot like what Yahoo has done. I have about 75 clients who use WLM. Most of them have Gmail accounts.

I would rather not have to switch to a different mail client.

I would appreciate very much if someone could provide a step by step how to. I suspect there are several millions others like us.

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Anonymous
2022-06-02T16:15:42+00:00

Here's the procedure outlined by Kevin, as an edited quote, derived from several of his messages:

"Came across a work around which I hope will keep working come June 1st.

You need to go into your Google account and it is under Security. Turn on "2 Step Authentication" for each Gmail account and then add an App Password for WLM. You just need to generate the App Password from Google Security and then use that when you update your email ie send/ receive in your WLM. When you update your email ie send/ receive in WLM it will prompt you for this password instead of your Gmail password. The option to turn on/off Less Secure Apps in my security settings disappeared once I turned on 2 Step Authentication."

And here's the link to the YouTube video which provides the same procedure, one that has worked for a lot of us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-SqaEmSjAc

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As a matter of fact, one additional YouTube video has also sprung up which provides the same solution. That one is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKLZBNlhrQs

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The previous version of this message also linked to a third video which I thought MIGHT also have a good solution but IT DID NOT. Which is why I've removed that third link. Specifically, you can NO LONGER ACCESS GMAIL if you are using the Less Secure Apps option in the Gmail security settings. Sorry about that.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-30T14:10:59+00:00

    I set up a Gmail account with an app password. It is working just fine both sending and receiving from WLM.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-30T13:13:26+00:00

    Uh-oh! Major problem!!!

    I can receive messages fine! But I can't send them at all!!!!

    What do I do???

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-30T05:31:06+00:00

    Hee hee. My way we get an extra day. Which do you prefer? LOL

    Regardless, right this minute I am saving the program with all my emails and contacts. I'm also taking screen shots of important messages. Have you done that?

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-05-30T04:58:55+00:00

    I wouldn't thank me yet. Because now I'm beginning to have some doubts. When they say it ends on May 30th, they could very well have been talking about the END of May 30th. It would seem more logical for them to pull the switch at the end of the month rather than 24 hours before. So I have a feeling you may have been right originally. I'm trying to find some more precise documentation on precisely when Gmail is pulling the plug but so far I've come up empty.

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