Outlook email no longer supported (Sauna 4.6)

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#1

Update your sign-in technology before September 16th, 2024 to maintain email access.
The safety and security of your information is top priority for Microsoft. To help keep your account secure, Microsoft will no longer support the use of third-party email and calendar apps which ask you to sign in with only your Microsoft Account username and password. To keep you safe you will need to use a mail or calendar app which supports Microsoft’s modern authentication methods. If you do not act, your third-party email apps will no longer be able to access your Outlook.com, Hotmail or Live.com email address on September 16th.

What do you need to do?

If you are receiving this email, you are currently using an email or calendar app that uses a less secure authentication method to connect to your Outlook.com email account. You will need to upgrade your third-party mail and calendar app to a version which supports modern authentication methods.

Microsoft provides free versions of Outlook for your PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices which can be easily downloaded and connect to your email account. Using an updated version of an Outlook application will ensure you are connecting in the most secure way.

How can you set up your Gmail, Apple Mail, or other third-party mail application?

Various non-Microsoft applications will have their own steps for connecting to your Outlook.com email account using modern authentication methods. See our help article - Modern Authentication Methods now needed to continue syncing Outlook Email in non-Microsoft email apps. However, you may need to contact the creators of those applications to provide you with instructions. In many cases, simply removing and re-adding your account with the latest version of that application will configure it to use modern authentication methods.

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#2

Can this give an issue for the Sailfish Mail program ?

#3

Using my hotmail email address

When I want to send a new message,
Get messge updating,
But no new message send

#4

I believe that when you have set up 2FA for the MS account, you can create an app password and use that one instead of the account password with IMAP (general Email) on SFOS.

#5

I think the novelty is that app passwords won’t work for email anymore. A good time to migrate the email:)
Of course, I also wish oath2 was implemented in the client, but is there a discovery standard for that? Not even mail settings from mx record and xmls are standard… (e.g sample instructions)

#6

I already have tried that. Same issue

#7

Outlook email will stop working in 4 days. Is there a possible solution, how we can log in to office365 accounts through browser and fill out 2FA there?

The exchange support is paid of Sailfish OS paid license, now it will loose big part of its functionality?

#8

Hi!
Any news/new ideas what to do with this email problem.
Occasional replication issues with Outlook Exchange have been there “always”, but now the replication does not succeed at all. Keeps on updating with no results.

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#9

I hope a fix for this is coming. It seems strange that for something like email, I need to use an android app instead of the built in native email app

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#10

Anyone on v5 if this is fixed?

#11

I’m a professional email system administrator. My view is that Microsoft (as part of their long-established EEE strategy) is trying to destroy internet email, and move everyone into their own walled garden. Google and Apple are also working for this, for their own variants, since internet email based on open standards is just an expenditure item for all of them, without a billing method, and with spam, forgeries & other problematic things — this is pretty much the same thing that happened to chat systems’ interoperability back in the early 2000’s.

#12

I can inform that I am able to use one ms365 account. Here I must use a third party 2FA login. Mine private accounts I can not use anylonger.
Now I use my own mail and also my Synology.

#13

I am not sure how. It’s just a more secure way to log on. Works on all recent email clients.

#14

M365 can (and is recommended to) be set up to disallow IMAP access, and only be used with their own proprietary client. I’m pretty sure the next phase will be to make access to/from outside M365 optional, as so many email domains are already outsourced there, which completes the walled garden.

#15

On other devices, I access Outlook via the Gmail app on an Android phone, the default email app on a Amazon tablet and also Mozilla thunderbird via the IMAP protocol because all of these clients support modern authentication. I am not sure where you are getting the info that Microsoft doesn’t allow IMAP. Sure they are pushing use of their own app, but you can use any other email app as long as its supports modern authentication using OAUTH2.

#16

Microsoft 365 email does support imap, but only if its enabled by the security policy of the organization or company concerned, and many admins don’t allow this protocol anymore.

#17

I understand what you mean. But in reality you can still use it with other email clients (which as I mentioned, I do). The clients have to support the authentication method. The modern authentication method handles the credentials and also supports 2FA so seems like a good idea from a security perspective. I use this method for both my personal 365 and office 365 accounts in my other devices - one of which is IMAP and one is MS exchange.

I am not sure at what point the discussion switched to IMAP but my query was always about sailfish email client supporting the modern authentication so that I use a native client to check my emails, which other email clients do and I don’t necessarily have to use Microsoft’s own apps.

#18

You could have a look at https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/4-4-0-72-4-5-0-16-unable-to-create-microsoft-365-account-using-a-live-com-au-domain/14500, but for me the problem was not solved. I still got stuck with no working native mail app and syncing agenda and contacts for my outlook.com account

#19

Currently I have no way to access my work email on the phone. O365 2FA with external one time password gets me to a screen that asks for an admin account to give access to resources in my organisation to Jollyboys Oy. Imap has been switched off for a while. On Linux, Thunderbird, davmail and Evolution work somehow around the restrictions imposed by the admins of my work organisation (a university). So it can be done.

To make things worse, I cannot use the Amdroid Outlook app either because our admins insist on enforcing the app to be device admin (to make sure that a pin or password is used to lock the phone. All this is on 5.0, BTW but obviously also applies to 4.6.