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
    2022-06-09T19:26:09+00:00

    Yes. There is a feature in Windows that applies. The way Windows works, is that first you select an object, then you select an action (like delete). You do that normally by just clicking on that inbox item, then pressing the delete key or the delete icon.

    You can do that for a whole group:

    Click ONCE on the first item in a list

    Hold down the Shift key, While clicking on the last item in a list

    Then select Delete

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  2. Don Varnau 19,930 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-06-09T12:28:24+00:00

    The app password video did it for me THANK YOU.

    My question is:

    can I now turn off the 2 step verification? Isn't that something I will always have to use when checking gmail from tablet/phone etc?

    No you cannot turn off 2 step verification. You will not have to use 2SV every time you access the email account. Your device will be remembered as a trusted device. Only occasionally, if there's Cookie confusion or another problem will you have to receive and use a code.

    Don

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-08T01:59:47+00:00

    Correct! The app password is the answer. At least until they change that??

    I am in the process of doing that for all my clients

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-06-08T01:36:49+00:00

    After the baloonery ... I appears Google has backed off from backing off. And on June 6th it is indeed broken (again.)

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