Re: [Hampshire] SMPT Authentification Methods for Hotmail
On 01/10/2024 12:30, Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote: I have been long retired but an old programme has come back to bite me. Years ago I wrote a programme in Visual Foxpro using a Chilkat Active X mail component so that the user can send invoices etc by email from the programme. However it has stopped working and it appears that the authentification method used "LOGIN" is no longer supported. If the leap to oauth2, as others have mentioned, is a step too far it might be worth setting them up with a simple domain name and email hosting package (I can recommend Mythic Beasts for this) which will then allow you to stay with SMTP via LOGIN. They/you also gain the benefit of having real tech support if they ever have problems with their email service. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting -- Adam Piggott, Proprietor, Proactive Services (Computing) https://www.proactiveservices.co.uk/ "I didn't have time to write a short email, so I wrote a long one instead." --Mark Twain Secure communication preferred: Matrix @adam-p:matrix.org, Signal Messenger, OpenPGP. OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG website: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] SMPT Authentification Methods for Hotmail
On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 at 12:31, Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote: > > However it has stopped working and it appears that the authentification > method used "LOGIN" is no longer supported. > > It is a nice small family company and I would like to help. > > I am resigned to having to getting the updated mail component but I am > having hdifficulties finding out what mathod would keep Hotmail happy > and what extra will have to be done to make the whole process work. Up > to now they only needed a password and username. > Hi, I have had to do something similar recently. I use thunderbird to access a hotmail account via POP3. Previously it used username/password, but I have had to switch thunderbird to using "oauth2" While thunderbird already supports it, it is quite a lot of work to implement. oauth uses a web page to do the authentication. I.e. You try to login, it redirects you to a web page to enter your username/password and then it remembers that for a while and you don't need to access the web page every time. The reason it is quite a lot of work to implement, is because you now need to implement a mini web browser, so it can display the redirected web page and take the username/pass input. thunderbird has implemented the web page, that pops up the first time you restart thunderbird after configuring it for oauth2. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG website: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] SMPT Authentification Methods for Hotmail
On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 12:30:30 +0100
Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote:
Hello Roger,
>having hdifficulties finding out what mathod would keep Hotmail happy
>and what extra will have to be done to make the whole process work. Up
1. Hotmail no longer exists, per se - it's Outlook
2. You're almost certainly going to have to delve into use of the Oauth2
protocol as username/password is no longer sufficient.
The following will provide some context and may prove useful;
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
Apologies for the long link. But, well, you know; microsoft.
Finally: Good luck.
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[Hampshire] SMPT Authentification Methods for Hotmail
I have been long retired but an old programme has come back to bite me. Years ago I wrote a programme in Visual Foxpro using a Chilkat Active X mail component so that the user can send invoices etc by email from the programme. However it has stopped working and it appears that the authentification method used "LOGIN" is no longer supported. It is a nice small family company and I would like to help. I am resigned to having to getting the updated mail component but I am having hdifficulties finding out what mathod would keep Hotmail happy and what extra will have to be done to make the whole process work. Up to now they only needed a password and username. Thanks Roger -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Manage subscription: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG website: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
