Outlook 2013 cannot logon to gmail any more
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/20
A problem on a PC I did not use often: as of a sudden, Outlook 2013 could not access a gmail account any more.
Luckily, Outlook showed me this message in a dialog box:
Please log in via your web browser: https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 (Failure)
This directed me to [WayBack] Use IMAP to check Gmail on other email clients – Gmail Help
In turn that pointed to [WayBack] Let less secure apps access your account – Google Account Help
Finally that one indicated the configuration page changed to https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps
This is similar to the cause of “the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” – iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS < 7
It all comes down to gmail forcing OAUTH2: [WayBack] tls – Why doesn’t outlook 2013 meet modern security standards? – Information Security Stack Exchange
–jeroen
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