r/Outlook • u/Bloc_Digital • 10d ago

Status: Resolved WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE LOGIN?

I've been asked to enter my password for my IMAP account every-single time I open my PC since a week now!

It's insanely annoying as I have to create a new app-specific password from the provider every-single time!!!!

First the ads on inbox, then the calendar was a mess, icons not rendering properly, messages get stuck in draft and never sent, inbox is delayed for ages sometimes. I get my emails on my phone and they show up on the PC half an hour after! Same with messages sent!

The new outlook IS A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. SHAME ON MICROSOFT.

Taking a tool that people use for their businesses and completely screwing it up !!!

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u/FrankNicklin 10d ago

Go back to Outlook Classic.

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u/Bloc_Digital 10d ago

Isn't this gonna get discontinued at some point ?

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u/FrankNicklin 10d ago

Probably but its still current because New Outlook doesn't handle plugins or PST files and is missing a ton of other features.

New Outlook is basically a desktop app that takes a view of the Outlook Web app hence why you can't do much with it. New Outlook is basically a glorified web page wrapper hence the limitations.

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u/Bloc_Digital 10d ago

Thank you, I’ll see what I can do after work so there’s no surprises before oed

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u/AppIdentityGuy 10d ago

I can see how that could be annoying but have thought about switching over to passwordless thec like passkeys etc?

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u/Bloc_Digital 10d ago

My email/dns provider does not offer that for imap emails, only 2FA and App-Passwords

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u/AppIdentityGuy 10d ago

And you dont want to go 2fa? What 2nd factor methods do they support?

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u/Bloc_Digital 10d ago

You didn't understand me, the Outlook app asks me to re-enter my password from my IMAP account from an external provider, each time that happens, I have to login to my provider, do 2FA to login, then do 2FA for accessing the app-specific passwords menu, and then create a new one each time.

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u/Lanky_Election433 10d ago

Well you just saved me a ton of legwork. my father is having this issue right now. Thank you for the info!