Outlook 2016 doesn't accept password or app password

Sorry about that! I accidently signed into my Personal Account.

You must be using Edge browser... it has a tendency to do that of auto login without confirming. Ironic that it's happening to a MS employee.

1. Thunderbird - since you mentioned you communicated to them, I would assume you are a liaison role and if they need to figure out how to parse .pst format, it would need to go through someone like you. Anyways, if anyone else know how to reliably import .pst into Thunderbird, I would appreciate the feedback.
2. As far as using auto-discovery to add an account is concerned, I am already doing that and we are still having this prompt issue. That said, from everything I read, there is a clear difference. Microsoft Exchange type allows full mailbox sync. EAS is/was intended for mobile devices, so it sync only recent items, to reduce the amount of data a mobile/lite device needs to store. All said and done, we need clear information from MS on which is which, so we can identify the best method for those of us want to better manage our own mailboxes.

If this month-long fiasco doesn't teach us any other lesson, it has taught us that we need a reliable way of storing local copy of our mailboxes.

Thanks Dave - Gabriel provided similar input earlier this week while he was working with this discussion group. The iOS Exchange setup continuously fails (password error), and seems to be hanging up on the Automatic Reply option. But outlook.com seems to be stable. What's odd in the default setup for Exchange is that even if I try to use the auto settings it forces me into the manual setup, asking for the server name (eas.outlook.com). Once this gets sorted out I hope Microsoft will provide new setup instructions so that we (non-technical users) are comfortable that its working correctly.

I was skeptical at the beginning since there is a lot of FUD around this app, and in this forum ad well, some "not" very smart users like to sh** on MS and its employees just for the fun of it.

As for the ads, I can live with the occasional ad email, the app looks great and is really fast, and best of all is free.

One feature that I would like to have, is to being able to reorder the email accounts in the left pane, like having the ability to drag an account name up or down, or maybe having arrows to move an account up or down the list.

So far didn't have any password prompts on my msn.com account since the time that I have installed the app.

Overall very happy 10/10

So no more Exchange for free personal accounts??

The reason I've been using Exchange in all email clients is because IMAP is painfully slow when it comes to syncing all my subfolders which are more than 100.. And syncing inbox only is not an option since I have many rules applied.

Some security "enhancements" seem to defeat basic functionality.
Let's stop using email altogether, it's the safest option for sure..
Would be nice to have an advanced option to use less secure accounts and be responsible for keeping our passwords and devices safe.

In any case the ultimate simple question,
Is there a way I can use a microsoft email containing many subfolders and rules without having to wait 5 minutes to sync???(In any third party email client)

This is the same way that apps like Apple Mail, Google Mail, and Thunderbird all have started to support OAuth in the past years.

So if Apple Mail already supports OAuth, why do I get the prompts on my iPhone and iPad (iOS & iPadOS 17.3.1) using the native Apple Mail app with an @outlook.pt account?

In the configuration of this account I see the server name: outlook.office365.com

If I want / need to add the same @outlook.pt account again I must select one of the choices:

• Microsoft Exchange
• Outlook.com

Which one should I choose, so that OAuth is used for authentication?