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
    2024-06-01T11:42:14+00:00

    The one seemingly silver lining to this cloud is that spam to the affected accounts has diminished dramatically.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-05-21T22:42:37+00:00

    Can you add a comment to your Google ticket with link this thread here? Google is sometimes slow to respond but they are generally much better than Microsoft. This is a serious issue and would trigger losing of some Gmail users.

    For me, I moved my Hotmail items to Gmail and I am about 90% done. Moving of calendar from Hotmail to Gmail did have a good benefit that while I am giving up a bit on privacy, I did get better use of Google Assistant/Home with more useful reminders.

    With the upcoming crazy changes to Windows 11, I am going to move my computing needs from Windows as well.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-05-20T13:33:01+00:00

    Google responded (among other setup hints for IMAP and POP):

    "However, there is no official information on when Gmail will support OAuth for Outlook.com EAS."

    But as I'm not sure if they understood correctly, I answered to that email and explained the same problem in other words ;-)

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-05-10T16:21:13+00:00

    I do see the same on Samsung Email for Android. The notable piece is when you choose Exchange as the account type and then type your email address, the "password" field disappears and the modern auth process happens.

    I'd been looking into third-party email apps which support EAS, but they all seem to want to connect to your Android client using SMTP/IMAP and then (presumably) their own servers utilise EAS to connect to Microsoft.

    I noticed the required permissions when authorising this access (or not!) are different between Samsung Email and the other third-party email apps too.

    PS. Please keep us updated on your outstanding ticket with Google :)

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-10T06:58:47+00:00

    IMAP using OAuth2 has been nearly unusable this week

    time stamps are PDT

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