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

With regard to Thunderbird, I posted this reply copied here to another user in

a different thread and believe it could be useful to add this here as well. These

2 specific steps are needed to be done to make Thunderbird compliant with

requirements for sync the Thunderbird email client app with Outlook. Having

done this recently I can confirm this works. Likewise the description of how to

export the eml files from WLM or Outlook that I posted in the message above

is recently confirmed by me to work.

So for anyone that is making the change to Thunderbird,

Please let another T-bird user help you out here, just because I can.

This will require 2 steps to get you compliant using T-bird to access an outlook account,

and it is a combination of server settings in T-bird as STEP [1] along with STEP [2] permissions

settings for Outlook that must be accessed through the web portal for Outlook opened

in a web browser and clicking the gear icon there to select your Mail tab and grant

permission for Thunderbird to access your Outlook account.

STEP [1]

Scroll down to about the middle of the linked page here where it says If you use Mozilla Thunderbird" and Option 1 is all you need as instructions from this page. Ignore the rest. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/modern-authentication-methods-now-needed-to-continue-syncing-outlook-email-in-non-microsoft-email-apps-c5d65390-9676-4763-b41f-d7986499a90d

STEP [2]

On the following linked page you will see chevrons for topic drop down instructions you

will need to follow regarding the permissions settings in your outlook account you see

when viewing your emails in a web browser NOT in your email client app, but online

as if you were using a computer in a library or internet cafe to access your mail.

If you get any security challenges by Microsoft popups for confirming identity by

text or email or 2 step identification then cooperate with with the bot that is tasked

to verify "Is it really you?" and confirm your permissions settings. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/pop-imap-and-smtp-settings-for-outlook-com-d088b986-291d-42b8-9564-9c414e2aa040

After you have made your server settings in both the Thunderbird client app and

permission settings to enable access within the outlook account, then connection

should sync okay and you should have no issues. Server names and ports have to

be correct for the type account POP or IMAP. When you believe you have gotten

the settings correct, close the browser to your outlook account. I would even close

and restart the Thunderbird app, even though I think the settings changes will

occur without closing and reopening these apps, it won't hurt. Send yourself a

test message from another email account like gmail to confirm the outlook

account is accepting access by Thunderbird. If your test message is received,

then everything is good to go and you are set.

Maybe the closure of POP accounts on Classic Outlook has started. It is rejecting my logon details this morning having been fine every day since 18 September.

Webmail is ok and I have accessed my emails via Firefox so it is an Outlook problem rather than a general email problem.

We will see what happens tomorrow.

Keith

I am travelling next week so I will probably use your instructions to install Thunderbird on my laptop.

Thanks

David

Thunderbird is continuing to work well for me to access POP on a hotmail account.

I don't believe deprecation of POP will occur, and certainly not IMAP..

Thunderbird app will seem bloated when first installed. Views and buttons

will gradually get custom configured and this will be an incremental task

to get the app customized to your preferences. After it is done, the custom

aspects can be saved as a profile folder as backup, so the custom settings

along with all messages can be preserved as a single folder copy backup.

If you ever have to reinstall or transfer everything to another computer,

a saved backup profile folder is simply substituted for the newly created

folder in the new installation.

The only tedious part of the migration to T-Bird is Drag and Drop copy

required for the folder by folder exported eml files from the old outlook

or Windows Live Mail accounts. You will have to create destination folders

in T-Bird, and then drag the borders of the T-Bird app so it is occupying

about half the window as a vertical on the right half of the desktop.

Then on the left half of the desktop will be the contents of your flash drive

or save folders for your exported eml files. Each folder exported eml files

will have an index file top of list of eml files showing as small blue icons

that are now file associated with T-Brid. The eml files are Drag and Dropped

into their respective destination folders created in advance in T-Bird. But

the index file at the top of the list of eml files will prevent the Drag and Drop

if it is included with the list of eml files attempting to be copied to T-Bird.

So that index file has to be deleted first or excluded by a highlighting of

the first eml file beneath it and a scroll down highlighting of the list of

eml files to select them for the Drag and Drop copy into T-Bird. I used

the scroll down highlighting to emulate "select all" (except the one index file

top of list excluded) and that worked. But it is tedious and would have

been easier to first delete that index file top of list and then do a

highlight first eml file and Select All and then Drag and Drop the lot.

That should work as well and be much easier.

Hi. I just wanted to say thank you again. So far so good:-) Kind regards, Susie