#ATT MAIL STATIONERY PASSWORD#

Worse yet, AOL's 'Generate an App Password' page refers to this 'App password' as a 'one-time password' NO-NO-NO! 99.999% of people-including myself, who worked for 15+ years as a network and Exchange admin-logically consider the phrase 'one-time password' to mean TEMPORARY, which is NOT the case. The REAL source of the frustration as one tries to resolve this issue is the exceptionally unhelpful and cryptic error messages-both within Outlook AND the Outlook logging file-as neither mentions the oAuth vs oAuth2 conflict as the ACTUAL problem. In hindsight, I really don't know which Outlook settings are the correct ones-the ones on the Repair page or the Account Properties page-but I note that settings that I expected to be the same are, in fact, different.ĭiane, You are beyond AWESOME! I have spent countless hours over the past few days trying to determine why my my started getting flaky on Outlook 2010.yes, I knew that AOL had taken over the email domain several years ago, but was unaware that they had transferred them off to Yahoo. Nevertheless, the Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server information under Send/Receive Groups>Edit>Account Properties is the correct information.' The Incoming mail server is still listed as and the Outgoing mail server is listed as. I am concerned that that the incorrect settings still appear if you go to File>Account Settings>Repair>Let Me repair my account manually>Repair. I appreciate the lead and thank you and her for a solution that resolved the issue of not receiving email using Outlook.

The detailed article provided by Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky provided a solution that worked correctly and restored my Outlook email function. 'My account managed through AOL stopped working and reset a portion of the POP server account information to go look for Yahoo addresses and not the Verizon ones. I left the following detailed reply on the Microsoft page.

#ATT MAIL STATIONERY PASSWORD#

Use Ctrl+V to paste the password in the password field then click Next. To change the password in Outlook 2016 and newer, use the File > Account Settings > Server settings menu. If you type it in, don’t include the spaces, they just make the password easier to read.

Copy the password and paste it into Outlook’s password dialog.

You can use the app password in any application.) (The name is to make it easier to delete (revoke) a specific password if you need to later.

Type a name for your app then click Generate.

Log into your account security settings in Yahoo or AOL and click on Manage app passwords.

To generate an app password to use in place of your 'real' password: Unlike Gmail, iCloud and, you do not need to enable 2-step authentication or the secret key feature to use an app password.

Please check your email address and password and try again. We couldn't log on to the incoming (IMAP) server. You'll see this message when you add a new account: If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).' Task 'Synchronizing subscribed folders for reported error (0x800CCC0E) : 'Outlook cannot synchronize subscribed folders for Error: Cannot connect to the server. If the account is already configured in Outlook, you'll see this error message in the Send / Receive Progress dialog:

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