Outlook 2016 doesn't accept password or app password

Anonymous
2024-01-25T09:40:42+00:00

I have this problem - Outlook 2016 doesn't accept password or app password - and i think it is a growing World wide Microsoft problem :-(

See also here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Outlook/comments/19dx64p/outlook_2013_windows_10_suddenly_not_accepting/Outlook gives me this: (startede yesterday)

I have 2 PC's with HOTMAIL accounts in Outlook 2016 ...

They both have this error.

I do get mails ... but I can´t send mails. Yesterday it did work for 1-2 hours ... but right now the error is there all the time :-(

Please help me.

Thanks in advance

Pierre

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For business

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-11T19:22:28+00:00

    Nope. Just now "authentication error"

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-11T18:33:46+00:00

    Maybe it's fixed?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-11T04:51:00+00:00

    You need to enable 2FA and use modern authentication, which Outlook 2016 should support by default now. App password doesn't solve the current issue (though it should work fine once this is resolved, at least until they totally do away with app passwords).

    For me, my phone has prompted me a few times yesterday and today but I just refresh my inbox and it goes away and mails send and receive fine. So still not fixed, but better than a few days ago. Why it was fine for a couple days and now backtracked, who knows.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-11T02:12:50+00:00

    The issue is back on our accounts too.

    We're in a loop. It works for several hours without any action by us. And while staying in the same network it stops again for several hours.

    The new test account I created some days ago has absolutely not the issue.

    So this looks more and more that the account itself is part of the problem. Maybe a special setting is there on the new account, but not on the ones that existed as the issue came up end of January.

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