- #Authentication error adding gmail to outlook windows 10#
- #Authentication error adding gmail to outlook code#
- #Authentication error adding gmail to outlook password#
#Authentication error adding gmail to outlook password#
You can use one app password on all devices or create one for each device.
One password can be used with multiple devices, so copy the password and keep it in a safe place. Email clients can't display the second authorization screen so you need to use a special "app password" instead of your normal password, which you created when you set up two-factor auth.
#Authentication error adding gmail to outlook code#
When you log into an account online, you're presented with a screen that asks you to enter the code you received by text message. If you're fooled by a phisher and use two factor auth, the bad guys can't get into your account without this code, unless they also have your phone. This code is sent by text message (or email) and is only valid for a short period, usually 20 minutes. How it works: when you log into your account from a device, you need to use a special code or password to access a site. Facebook, Gmail, GoDaddy, Twitter, and are among the growing number of sites that use two factor authentication. Two-factor (or two-step) authentication is used by many sites and services to protect your accounts from hackers. that's actually a perfectly reasonable statement and it fits with the stated objectives of Google Inc.I thought I wrote about this a few weeks ago, right after Microsoft introduced two-step authentication at but I can't find it, so if it's a duplicate, sorry. So yeah, if you want to use Outlook, don't use GSuite. Google DOES care and as such aren't providing the services people want. I can be 100% browser, or 100% desktop, they don't care. Microsoft gives me desktop / mobile apps that just work with M365 without me having to think. Google isn't putting out, but charging the same money. So the two giants continue their pissing match, and we mere mortals are stuck in a very understandable, if infuriating at times middle.īut in the end, if you're paying for a cloud service and that cloud service isn't giving you the service you need, it's up to us to switch. Microsoft loses money in this exchange because people then use GSuite instead of M365 for the cloud portion of their ecosystem more easily. All the tools are there, it's up to Google to complete the experience because it's their service that's required to do the integration. They've given a modern authentication system that works with most modern authentication platforms including Google too. Microsoft has provided an API in the Outlook application that Google could use to make a plugin to make all this seamless. Just as a core principle of Microsoft is single sign on. I disagree with this fundamentally, and it's a core principle of Google as a company. They think everything should be 100% done in a browser at all times. Google doesn't believe in desktop applications AT ALL. I blame Google for all of this, and it's part of their mission statement.
Microsoft has no interest in making Outlook play nice with Google services, it's up to Google to make the plugins for Outlook to do that.ĮmClient is a good example of a 3rd party trying to play nicely enough with both to get noticed, and they're doing such in an attempt to get sales in an ecosystem that otherwise wouldn't give them the time of day. So yeah, you wind up needing plugins in Outlook that can reach into the Google API to get at the other bits of data, and without those plugins which are often sold by various 3rd parties you're stuck doing things manually. But the larger issue is the fact that the email side even if using modern auth is IMAP, and IMAP is a messaging protocol it simply doesn't deal with all the extra stuff. This is after I hit the +2 more link on the main security settings pane, as it only presents the first three there with that Microsoft has their own way of handling all that stuff that predates Google as a company, much less gmail.
#Authentication error adding gmail to outlook windows 10#
Whether it's the Windows 10 Mail App, or Outlook, the entry for Microsoft apps & services is the one relevant to their access. If it does not, and you complete the process, I'll almost bet my bottom dollar that there is cache corruption in the browser you had tried to use previously, and the solution to that is doing a complete purge of browser cache for that browser.Īlso, since it sounds like you're using one of the more recent versions of Outlook, unless there is some reason to have less secure apps enabled otherwise, disable it.Īddendum: Since a picture is worth a thousand words, here's a screenshot for my Google Account where I'm using several different email clients for testing.
A "cheater's version" of this is to temporarily change your default web browser under Windows Settings, and see if the same "stall" happens when the OAUTH dialog appears under that web browser. In instances like this, where there is weird behavior in a web browser (and, yes, that Google dialog is a browser dialog), I strongly suggest clearing browser cache, for all time, as an initial step. It wasn't clear to me what the sticking point was with that pop-up OAUTH dialog.
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