[Basty]

 My email account is with Google (Gmail) and through POP (?) I access it in  THE OBSOLETE (but still functional) Windows Live Mail (WLM 2012).
 Google emailed me that in a month I have no choice but to go with TwoStepVerification (2SV), so I set it up immediately. Since then, WLM has  not stopped asking me for my Google password, until I cancelled the 2SV. That solves my problem for a month, but not beyond that. Does anybody know
 a way of satisfying WLM's craving for a password under 2SV ?

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Maybe these instructions will help.

 

 

https://www.computer...?topic=181583.0

[zep516]

Maybe these instructions will help.

 

 

https://www.computer...?topic=181583.0

[Basty]

Those instructions suggest using a different email client - what I want is a way to continue using W.L.M.

[SleepyDude]

Hi,

 

Sooner or latter both Microsoft and Google with block access to send/receive mail if you use a e-mail client that doesn't support the new authentication protocol called OAuth that is not available on old mail clients like WLM2012, old Microsoft Outlook versions, etc.

 

Those changes were scheduled to happen in 2020 but due to the Pandemic with the lock-downs requiring many people to work from home they delayed that change...

 

https://support.goog...r/9003945?hl=en

[Basty]

I looked at the URL you sent me - It did not seem to include Mail-in-Win-10 amongst the ones that satisfy OAth requirements. If I have to abandon WLM, I would have preferred to go with that one. https://answers.micr...85-11cde2e3f4b3lists Windows Mail. I presume they are one and the same ?

 

"OAuth that is not available on old mail clients like WLM2012" so my 'POP'/WLM will die when Google changes to 2SV this or next month .... ?

[SleepyDude]

There is outdated information posted around this by I think and expect that the Mail client included on Windows 10 supports OAuth

https://support.micr...f9-3f9a33166c60

 

The Two Step Verification (2SV) is a different thing... if I'm not mistaken this option will be removed in the future!

 

Check the following about App Passwords https://support.goog...er/185833?hl=en this is a way to allow e-mail clients that are considered insecure to send/receive mail but I'm not sure this option is still available for 2SV enabled gmail accounts. I think I read in some place that this option was removed!

[Basty]

I have set the two step verification in Google and posted the App password it prompted into Window Live mail - and all is well. problem solved.