I received an email stating Update your sign-in technology before September 16th, 2024 to maintain email access. Is this legit or a scam?

Paul, does adding a checkmark to Remember my Credentials do anything?

John:

• Lose access to their email completely?

No, Web browsers will continue to work.

• Be forced to migrate to a different email provider?

No, same as above

• What steps should they take to avoid any disruption to their email access?

Any necessary changes are listed here:

Modern Authentication Methods now needed to continue syncing Outlook Email in non-Microsoft email apps - Microsoft Support

The full blow-by-blow is listed in this Support article:

Modern Authentication Methods now needed to continue syncing Outlook Email in non-Microsoft email apps - Microsoft Support

As Keith Jone_770 said on P10, the truth will be out on Monday 16 Sept.

Well, just sent and received emails using my POP Hotmail account using Classic Outlook. I had been told on this thread that I would not be able to log in to my account from today.

My big choice, if this is brought in, is, do I ditch Outlook if I can no longer use my POP account (which allows me to look at emails whilst offline)? Whilst abroad earlier this year I could not start any online sourced email programs without being online, so I could not access stored documents. Webmail Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail all needed me to connect to their accounts online before their apps, or webpages would start.

I could go back to Thunderbird which must be much better than it was 10 years ago; back then you could import emails into Thunderbird but there was no way to export them to another email client.

I only subscribe to microsoft 365 because it has Outlook, and in a format that I want. The rest of Office I can get elsewhere & I can survive without the large storage facility of OneDrive.

Microsoft will probably be happy enough without my £59.99 each year!

Until a couple of months ago I was using WLM but have now abandoned it and

have imported all the message files that are eml file type into Mozilla Thunderbird

which is working well and seems to be a very good free app that gets the job done.

Thunderbird installs first with the cluttered look of all options showing and it is a

task to make the choices of what things are needed on toolbars and gradually

set what columns showing message information are wanted, the sorting order

and views can be selected so the graphical interface becomes familiar and very

similar to the WLM user interface used for years that was an efficient no frills

email app.

The eml file type used by WLM and Outlook can't be directly imported using the

helper wizard to simplify the process of transferring accounts to Thunderbird. But

the eml file types are recognized by T-bird and the icon for eml files will be

changed to a blue firefox icon as a new file association is made after installing

Thunderbird. So all email backup folders with saved eml type message files

will be filled with little blue icons. The export is a one folder at a time process

from within WLM or Outlook to created destination save folders as would be

done for routine backup. In each backup folder will be a list of message icons

and top of the list an index file icon different for that one file that will have to

be excluded from any copying of that files list into new destination folders created

in Thunderbird to be their new home. So that index file must be deleted first

or excluded from a "select all" highlighting of the files list using a scroll down

before doing a Drag and Drop of that files list into the destination folder in

Thunderbird. The files are converted during the copy by a Drag and Drop

into the different file type used by Thunderbird. The process is a bit tedious

and time consuming but it is a method that works..

Another alternative is to use the Outlook app found in the Office Professional

such as the Office Pro 2013 release which can have modern authentication

enabled through a registry switch if you are comfortable about visiting the

registry to enable a function there but not enabled by default. It is a real

shame that such an option was not made available for WLM. But it seems

now that the corporate profit strategy is to use adware and subscription

plans for every software that used to be a permanent license and not a

rental plan. It is mysterious how making peoples computers a house they

never really own is anything else but racketeering by monopolies that

somehow are being allowed by governments to do business that way.

Next up will be mugs of ale that can't be bought, but only can be rented

for the time it takes to chug one down. There will be a surcharge for any

burps or farts. Corporate master minds are working on this already and

formulating a deployment plan.

Should a user need to abandon their present email app for Thunderbird

please see my summary concise instructions in this linked reply to another

user frustrated about the easiest way to set up Thunderbird and get it

compliant and synchronized with an outlook account having any of

the associated hotmail or other now outlook related accounts.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/update-your-sign-in-technology-before-september/9707d81c-47fe-41d6-81e2-f84224faa36c?LastReply=true#LastReply

I see this link simply connects to the last message posted in the other discussion

thread, and is not specific to my reply there, after another user has also replied,

so I am copying that pertinent reply information below in another reply here.