Using hotmail.com/outlook.com email with clients without OAUTH2 support (deprecated, no more supports for old email clients)

Microsoft announced about enforcing OAUTH2 authentication starting from September 16 2024. Application Passwords will be disabled too. In practice, non-OAUTH2 email clients are blocked from accessing Microsoft email servers starting from June 2024.

See 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/outlook-blog/keeping-our-outlook-personal-email-users-safe-reinforcing-our/ba-p/4164184

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/modern-authentication-methods-now-needed-to-continue-syncing-outlook-email-in-non-microsoft-email-apps-c5d65390-9676-4763-b41f-d7986499a90d

The section below is for archive purpose only.


Hotmail/Outlooks started enforcing TLS 1.0 starting from December 2022

It heavy affects old email clients without OAUTH2 support

You should still try first following settings with regular password

IMAP4:
Incoming mail server:
imap-mail.outlook.com
Incoming port: 993 / SSL

SMTP:
Outgoing mail server: smtp-mail.outlook.com
Outgoing port: 587/STARTTLS
Requires login: yes

POP3:
pop-mail.outlook.com
Incoming port: 995 / SSL

If regular password is not accepted then try to generate application password to use with email client

1) go and log in with a modern browser at

https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/

2) to create a two factor password go to

https://account.live.com/proofs/manage/additional?mkt=en-GB&refd=account.microsoft.com&refp=security then re-enter your password

and add 2FA method (phone number/sms, TOTP client or email). If you add email and do not have phone number on account you may be asked to wait for 30 days

3) Create application password on the same page. Use this password with IMAP/SMTP/POP email client with above settings

If you use old client or old devices without TLS 1.2 (Symbian, Android 2.2 -4.4) or you get any error with default settings (may happen on Windows Phone 8.1/Windows 10 Mobile) then use legacy servers that support TLS 1.0 with application password (not main password)

IMAP4:
imap-legacy.office365.com
Port: 993 / SSL or TLS

POP3:
pop-legacy.office365.com
Port: 995 / SSL или TLS

SMTP:
smtp-legacy.office365.com:
Port  587/TLS or STARTTLS


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