Settings for using Outlook/Hotmail SMTP via Gmail

There are a few Google community posts regarding this, essentially the ball is in Google's court to implement a better sign-in method for Outlook users:

• Search for 'smtp outlook': https://support.google.com/mail/threads?hl=en&thread_filter=(%27smtp%20outlook%27)&max_results=20 

(I imagine there are more results if you also include hotmail, microsoft, msn, etc.)

Threads:

• https://support.google.com/mail/thread/298757051?hl=en 
• https://support.google.com/mail/thread/298379468/unable-to-setup-send-mail-as-outlook-com-hotmail-com?hl=en 
• https://support.google.com/mail/thread/298423171/when-setting-up-%E2%80%9Csend-email-as%E2%80%9D-the-google-guide-step-%E2%80%9Csend-verification%E2%80%9D-does-not-come-up?hl=en 
• https://support.google.com/mail/thread/298145809?hl=en 

It's not just a Gmail issue however, disabling of basic authentication (which, ultimately, should not be a bad thing) is impacting anything using a 'legacy' setup, including printers lol: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79001719/535-5-7-139-authentication-unsuccessful-basic-authentication-is-disabled-broth

What is "basic authentication?" Is that when you are not using 2FA? And under the new system, you must use 2FA? Gmail forwarding is not set up to handle 2FA?

Is there no string we can use in the SMTP Server line or the Password line in the Gmail settings that will provide for doing the 2FA -- like putting in two passwords, the first, then the second that is the 2FA input, a certain delay between the two? I suppose that might depend on what is needed for the second input for 2FA.

Has anyone checked if there is a similar thread at Gmail about this issue?

I saw in another thread here that there was a similar issue back in 2013, although that one was using Hotmail as the interface for Gmail, the opposite. All these threads tend to point you to more and more links, and before you know it, you have 10+links open in diffent tabs and can't possibly follow them all. (It actually helps to give a final consolodated answer in one thread, in order to avoid too many tabs open to follow. It might be a longer post, but it's not confusing.)

There must be something to do to solve this. Has anyone notified Gmal about it?

I didn't realise how I use my outlook e-mail account was such an edge case!

Is there no way at all to use an Outlook e-mail address in the Gmail web client any longer?

All solutions I am seeing are saying to change Exchange settings re: Basic Authentication, but those only apply to company/enterprise accounts, not to Personal Microsoft Accounts.

I have Gmailify set up, but that only allows me to check my outlook e-mail, not send from an outlook.com e-mail address. only became aware of this about an hour ago when I tried sending an e-mail from my outlook account via the Gmail web browser client today, received a bounce back error telling me to double check my SMTP settings. Using these settings both as alias and non-alias:

• SMTP server 'smtp.office365.com'
• Port 587
• my full e-mail as my username
• and a newly generated app password
• Secured connection using TLS (only option is this or SSL)

I get the following error:

Well, David, if you are with Microsoft, maybe you can put the word through to whomever needs to hear it to please do not make such a drastic change, leaving us no way to use the service. Even using 2FA does ont solve th eproblem. I only use gmail as an interface for my Hotmail account -- because the gmail interface is much smoother. At first, it was faster, but over time as thigns have changed, it remained better. For instance, now, the way Hotmail uses its spelling correction within an e-mail, it inteferes with me trying to make corrections! Gmail does it so nicely.

But another thing, doing things as I have been for decades now provides me a backup for my Hotmail account. In fact, I accidentally deleted everything in my Hotmail Inbox last week. But I have it all backed up in Gmail.

Doing this undermines me, and the various others in this thread, and I'm sure many not in this thread. Blocking this for me might force me to abandon Hotmail!

Hi Me1004, I just wanted to drop in and say I do fully expect this to stop working because it looks like the gmail web setup that was being shown in this thread is not using Modern Auth. The changes for the basic auth deprecation are still rolling out. We have completed about half of the accounts at this point and will likely be done in the next 2 weeks. So I fully expect this to not continue to work much longer.