Outlook 2013 keeps asking for my outlook.com password

Olli, thanks for your feedback. After making the earlier post, things have improved. The pop up box asking for the password to be entered has stopped appearing, but every few hours I get a message in the taskbar notification area stating 'Outlook is attempting to connect to myaccount@outlook.com. If your password has changed it may ne'. (The notification box doesn't display the full message, I guess it should finish 'need resetting.')

I've been ignoring this message because Outlook 2013 remains synchronised with my account and so the notification doesn't make sense.

I haven't found a way to understand if Outlook 2013 is currently connected using an 'app password' or if it is using 2-Factor Authentication in the background.

Whilst it continues to work, I won't experiment further!

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Hello

I'm not sure I understand your comment. I was saying that I had changed my Gmail password and Outlook would no longer connect to Gmail, constantly asking for a password. There are lots of conflicting comments about this on here. However, it appears that the problem is with 2-factor authorisation, which of course you can't use with just a simple password. So, you need an "app password", and the link I gave shows how to do that for Gmail. My Outlook now coonects to Gmail perfectly. I will need to do this again every time I change the Gmail password.

My gmail account comes in perfectly. No problems at all with it. I only have problems with my outlook.com email since October 4. Thank you though for reconfirming that gmail is no problem.