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
    2022-06-08T02:12:47+00:00

    Hi all,

    Following the steps in this thread, I can now send / receive to my Gmail account in WLM 2012. It is now June 8.

    Two things to watch.

    1: Set up app password in your Google account. For this to appear you need two step veirifacvation on.

    2: The server settings (box in lower right of server tab in properties) should be set to use same settings as incoming.

    3: Also under servers tab, incoming and outgoing should be the same. If they are different, step 2 does not overide in my case.

    Regards,

    Steve

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  2. Don Varnau 19,930 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-06-07T22:02:42+00:00

    John S.42 wrote:

    Hi Victoria,

    Could you outline how you got the app password and got it to work in Windows Live Mail.?

    I deal with hundreds of emails a week for years and it’s so easy to organize.

    Thanks.

    Turn on 2-step verification https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185839?

    And create and use an app password

    https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833? 

    Don

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-03T12:34:16+00:00

    It appears that google backed off!!!!!!!!

    This morning, there are multiple reports in the Reddit gmail subreddit that folks whose Windows Live Mail stopped functioning, and who didn't know about the app password option (which is, after all, carefully hidden by google in a blatant attempt to prevent people from implementing it), suddenly found their Windows Live Mail functioning again!!!

    So this whole thing was a trial balloon to see if they could get away with it! And apparently they realized that they couldn't, that there would just be too much of a public outcry in reaction to this deliberate sabotage.

    Either that, or they decided to do this in an up-front ethical manner in response to the blowback of the last 24 hours. If the latter, then expect google to send out an apologetic email to everyone using their gmail services in the next few days. That email will humbly apologize for their high-handed behavior in yanking out the carpet from under so many millions of users, provide a new date for this change which is a comfortable time in the future, say two months, and THIS TIME it will provide a clear step-by-step set of instructions on how to

    1. implement 2-factor authentication and then
    2. how to create and implement an app password.

    Yes, and pigs will fly today.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-19T14:20:38+00:00

    That is a question for google as WLM is a discontinued product with no Microsoft support, even though many people still use it.

    And you are asking about Google's email which is not a Microsoft product.

    Example:

    https://support.google.com/mail/thread/153429458/will-windows-live-mail-2012-lose-access-to-gmail-in-may-2022?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/thread/153515128/which-email-client-will-work-with-gmail-after-30th-may-2022?hl=en

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