Hotmail accounts password issues
First, thank you for your help. Next, up until 2 days ago, my thunderbird worked great for my multiple accounts. Than all of my accounts at once said it could not login… (read more)
First, thank you for your help. Next, up until 2 days ago, my thunderbird worked great for my multiple accounts. Than all of my accounts at once said it could not login to the server with the userid/password. I then did the folllowing.
1). Manually logged in through website for hotmail for all accounts and my userid/passwords are right. 2). I updated the thunderbird program. Did not help. 3). Removed accounts manually and added them back into thunderbird. Still had problems. 4). Went out to the microsoft account management and switched 2 step process login and turned that off. Did not solve the problem. 5). Read online and saw that people change the authentication method to: OEAUTH2. I put in the password when the window popped up to login to my account, but if I close down the program and open it later, it pops up this box to login again. Switched it back to normal password. 6). Verified passwords are correct in Password manager.
Now what is interesting is if I have it as normal password, sometimes when I click "retry" for the password, it magically works and pulls in my emails. I thought maybe it was related to my internet connection, so I tried it on 3 different internet connections and I get the same results.
My setup is as follows:
server: outlook.office365.com Port: 993 Connection Security: SSL/TLS Server Type IMAP server
It is frustrating because like I said sometimes I click retry and it works for that specific account.
Thank you again for all of your help.
Jeff