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I have been using Outlook 2016 Desktop for Windows for quite awhile to access my AOL - (Verizon.net) emails. Just recently, I can't sync my AOL emails to my Outlook 2016 Desktop app. I can not generate an app password via AOL in order to sync and download my new emails to Outlook. I have contacted AOL several times and they are NO help at all. How can I generate a 3rd Party App password to make my outlook work as before? Any ideas/solutions on how to get around this issue?
P.S. I am using Outlook 2016 Desktop (Windows 11), not Outlook 365 or Outlook.com app.
Using classic Outlook for Windows in business environments
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Sorry but I don't know what "toggle off and on 2FA" means or how to do this. Could you please explain and give instructions how to "toggle off and on 2FA"?
Thank you.
Thanks! I just tried your suggestion and it worked. For how long ... I don't know. It seems to work for awhile and then it doesn't. Not sure what's going on with AOL but for now it works!
I just try to toggle off and on 2FA then Password for Generate 3rd Party App Password (AOL) working again.
I am have been at this for the last couple of hours after a software upgrade. I'm glad I found these post, not that it solves my problems, but it confirms that things are not working and everything I have tried won't fix it. I cannot generate and app password. AOL should be ashamed of themselves for leaving us all in the lurch on this. I will keep trying to generate an app password and hopefully one day it works for me too so I can get back to working productively
Unfortunately you are RIGHT!!! It is ALL about GREED! The AOL app password generator is hit & miss. It works sometimes and most of the time it doesn't work at all. And I agree, it is a simple software fix that AOL has no interest in fixing! AOL wants the user to use their email web browser and no one elses. Advertisements are money generators!!!
That is exactly what I think also and I insist on keep using Outlook as mail client for netscape.net mail.
The question still is, how do we get this back operational. I have not been lucky in having it working, since the issue started whilst I was using it for years.
Microsoft techs can’t you guys do something about this. By the netscape.net was acquired by AOL and now AOL has been acquired by Yahoo, why can’t they assist on fixing this?