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By Joe Callison
13 November, 2024
End of Basic Auth for Email
Information copied from the internet for iPhone users:
To help keep Outlook personal email accounts secure, starting September 16, 2024, Microsoft will no longer support Basic Auth, the method in which a person provides only their username and password to sign into their account. As of September 16, 2024, Outlook will require that all those with a Microsoft email account use a mail or calendar app or the Outlook.com website that supports modern auth, such as the latest versions of Outlook, Apple Mail, or Thunderbird.
On your iPhone go into Settings ➜ Mail ➜ Accounts, and make sure your account appears there as Outlook, and not as Hotmail or Live. If it does, then you are fine. If it doesn’t, you may need to remove it from there and add it again using the Outlook option.
Don’t select configure manually. I noticed my Outlook.com account created using ‘Other mail account’ in the accounts selection window defaults to IMAP which is why it is constantly prompting me for password verification. When I attempted adding the exchange account before, I chose to configure it manually and it prompted for simple authentication which was giving me the same issue with multiple password requests. Selecting configure automatically or ‘Sign In’ will prompt you with the Microsoft ‘360-like’ authenticator. Enter your password and it should prompt you to save the new account functions. You will have to scroll down a bit and click accept on the Microsoft notification and you will receive an email from Microsoft about accessing functions in your mail app.
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