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Microsoft exchange now requiring multi-factor authentication for Thunderbird

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I have my email and domains with GoDaddy. Today they sent email that email client - I use TB - has to be changed to support Exchange. Their support page says I can continue to use POP or IMAP if TB supports multi-factor authentication (MFA). Does TB do this, and if so how should the server, ports, etc be set? The last post I found for Exchange is from 2019 and doesn't address this. Thanks

I have my email and domains with GoDaddy. Today they sent email that email client - I use TB - has to be changed to support Exchange. Their support page says I can continue to use POP or IMAP if TB supports multi-factor authentication (MFA). Does TB do this, and if so how should the server, ports, etc be set? The last post I found for Exchange is from 2019 and doesn't address this. Thanks

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Consider addon of Exquilla (I have had good success with it) or Owl. Neither is free, but neither is expensive.

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Consider addon of Exquilla (I have had good success with it) or Owl. Neither is free, but neither is expensive.

joel52
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Thanks. I'll give it a try. From what I see on the web, Owl may be the better long-term solution. But if others have a different opinion, I'd appreciate it. I'm not an email expert, but having moved from Eudora to TB only a couple of years ago (yes, I'm a dinosaur) I realize that ports, etc can mess things up and want to make things as simple as possible given that GoDaddy and Microsoft seem to want to complicate things.