Microsoft has announced that they will be discontinuing the support for Basic Authentication and that they will only allow applications using Modern Authentication (which is considered more secure) to access their platform which includes Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, Live.com, MSN.com and other national domains like Outlook.de, Outlook.fr and so on.

This of course means that some older email applications will stop working completely when they disable the support for the Basic Authentication.

However, OE Classic already supports what they call the Modern Authentication for over 2 years now. In OE Classic we simply call it Microsoft account or sometimes OAUTH2 in our support (an umbrella term for all such accounts).

While you can do this right away or when the change comes, you can simply run the account wizard (main menu » Tools » Accounts » Add...) and from the initial Account Wizard window select the Microsoft option.

The wizard then asks you if you want to add an IMAP or a POP account, and after selecting one and clicking the Next button, it opens a web browser for you to log in. After successful log in, you can return back to OE Classic and click Finish to add the account.

We have described this in a video, which is linked below:

The video shows the older icon named "Outlook/Microsoft" but the process remains the same. In the most recent versions of OE Classic it is only called "Microsoft" account. However, the rest of the authentication flow remains the same and shown in the video.

If you don't already have the latest version of OE Classic which supports this, you can update as usual using the built-in updater (main menu » Help » Check for updates) or from our "User" web page - https://www.oeclassic.com/user