Windows 10: Warnings about the new method of authentication for calendar and email accounts

I use Thunderbird on Windows 10 in order to access my Hotmail mailbox.As Microsoft had sent notifications that I need to upgrade the IMAP and SMTP connection methods to OAuth2, I did so a while ago;But I still received yet from Microsoft another warning yesterday, to the effect that "If you're receiving this email, you're currently using an email or calendar application that uses a less secure authentication method to sign in to your Outlook.com email account."This is definitely not the case.

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Email encrypted authentication method

Hi,
I'm trying to setup the company email account on my Lumia 920 (IMAP), but I keep getting bounced back to authentication. I logged into the server and the phone keeps trying an auth type of PLAIN, it refuses to try any MD5 method (the company email server prefers
CRAM-MD5).

I thought MD5 authentication was pretty standard now. Is there a way to change the authentication method for email? SSL is ticked, I have the incoming server as <addr>:<port>:1

Thanks.

 

I cannot remove account from "Accounts used by email, calendar, and contacts"

Hey Zadee C.

I followed your instruction, made a new local user and tried out to delete the account listed at "Accounts used by email, calendar, and contacts".

But unfortunately when I go to settings in the new account there is no account listed at "Accounts used by email, calendar, and contacts".

When I'm opening the Mail-App there is also no account logged in.

So the problem is only in my main account.

Thanks for your recommendation.
Do you have any other ideas or suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
ReGa

 

Google account (mail / calendar) not syncing in Windows 10

I'm having a problem with the default Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 10. For a while I was able to sync my Google account emails (Gmail) and calendar in those apps, but about a week ago, it has stopped working: the calendar is empty (no events, and no calendars listed), and the emails that were already synced are still there, but syncing doesn't bring any new email.

I tried deleting my Google account from the mail (or calendar) app, by going to "settings -> accounts", and then re-creating the account. I did that three times. Each time I was able to complete the following steps:

1. enter my Gmail address,
   
2. then my Google account password,
   
3. then the confirmation code sent by SMS,
   
4. and finally got to the screen "Windows would like to..." (permissions listing), on which I clicked "Accept" (obviously).
   

The first time, I then got a Windows message "Something went wrong", followed by an error code (I didn't write it down).

The second time, I didn't get this error message, so it looked like the account was successfully created (it appeared in my accounts list in the settings of those apps), but nothing was synced: both apps (mail / calendar) remained empty. (I tried syncing manually by clicking the sync button in the mail app: still nothing, even though the app confirmed that it was "up to date".)

For my third attempt, I had found this question, so I went and created an "app password" in my Google account, specifically for those apps. But when I got to the password screen (step 2 described above) and entered this app password instead of my regular account password, I got an error message (from Google) asking me to enter my account password and not an app password. So I did that, and that got me exactly the same result as my second attempt (account created but nothing synced).

I also tried both answers given on the same question (first via "settings > accounts > add account > Other account", and second via "settings > accounts > add account > Advanced setup"), but none of them worked for me (again, account created but nothing synced).

Has anyone experienced the same problems? How can I make this work?

UPDATE: a few months back (early October 2015) I received an email from Microsoft inviting me to "reconnect to Google" (that was the title of the email). I ignored it for a while, but recently followed the steps in this email and now everything seems to be working fine. So I'm guessing that MS somehow fixed whatever bug it was.