When setting up your account using Outlook for Microsoft 365, Outlook 2021, Outlook 2019 or Outlook 2016 (except for the Volume License msi-version), Outlook will prompt you for your credentials and the additional verification step as these versions offer native support for OAuth 2.0 for Gmail accounts.Īuthentication verification step 2: Enter a code obtained via an SMS text, the Authenticator app or a Google prompt on your phone. Outlook for Microsoft 365, Outlook 2021, Outlook 2019 and Outlook 2016

Secure your Gmail account with 2-Step Verification. This is a bit more work but also quite a bit more secure and highly recommended.įor step-by-step instructions to set this up see: Outlook and 2-Step Verification for Gmail accounts. The way to go is to enable “ 2-Step Verification” for your Google Account. You can no longer turn on Basic Authentication for Gmail.

It’s been a long time coming as Google had turned off Basic Authentication by default for all new accounts and accounts which haven’t synced within the last 30 days since the second half of 2014. However, it now states that the setting is no longer available and links to the Less secure apps & your Google Account help page for more info. You used to be able to do this on the Less secure app access page by setting the “Allow less secure apps” setting to “On”.

Re-enabling Basic Authentication for your Google Account Settings to configure Gmail in Outlook is no longer possible. It now only lets you authenticate via the OAuth 2.0 standard.Īs a result, you’ll get Send/Receive errors (0x800CCC0E) and could get prompted for your Gmail password again in Outlook and the login could fail even when you supply the correct password. This is because Google has turned off Basic Authentication (which they refer to as Less Secure App Access) for all accounts since May 30, 2022.

When configuring your Gmail account in Outlook (or other mail clients such as Thunderbird and Mail apps on (older) smartphones), you may run into continuous password prompts or sync errors.

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