"imap- mail.outlook.com" doesn't support Password authentication. Please check your account I can’t get my emails but I can on a browser

Evening,

I deleted the Hotmail.co.uk account and tried adding under outlook and other. Both tell me the outlook account already exists. I’ve got to a point where a test message came into my inbox but the account hasn’t restored all my emails. Is there any other suggestions to get it back ?

As soon as I add another email account in the mail settings and then go to my text messages, my husbands contact phone number switches under his name to my cell number on my phone. This makes no sense as to why it does that. As soon as I delete the newly added email account his number goes back correctly in the contacts on my phone.

Huh??? What are you talking about?

As soon as I do this my husband's cell number switches to mine under text messages. This is truly bizarre so I do not want to add it as another email under outlook.com if this is what occurs.

What exactly did you delete? Did you delete your email account from the mail server?

What everyone is saying:

Remove your mail account from your phone. Then add it back on.

DO NOT delete your email account!!!

Here's what you should do:

If you use Apple Mail:

Apple Mail supports Modern Authentication by default when you setup the account as Outlook.com. If you use Apple Mail and you are seeing password prompts or connection errors, this is most likely happening because your account got configured as basic authentication. To mitigate the issue, remove the account and add it back as Outlook.com:

1. Go to Settings > Mail > Accounts.
2. Tap the email account you want to remove from your iPhone, then tap Delete Account. For more information, please go to Add and remove email accounts on iPhone.

Add your account back to Apple Mail:

1. Go to Settings > Mail.
2. Tap Accounts, then tap Add Account.
3. In the Add Account dialog, choose Outlook.com.