Connection via pop3 to office 365 failed

I’ve heard that MS has turned off basic auth entirely.

Not sure if this will work going forward.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/new-resources-modern-authentication

POP and IMAP will no longer work as of Jan 1, 2023.

My IT admins were able to re-enable POP3 for me, but we need a better way to handle this before Jan 1.

@jasonian
and this results in what?

This means you’ll want to use a different mail service for Postie, unless Postie updates to work with Microsoft’s Bearer auth.

MSAL requires you to have global AD permissions to set up an Application ID which would be required for Postie to support MSAL (similar issue for Gmail). The average Postie admin doesn’t have this kind of access.

At this point the number of people who have asked for this feature is only a handful. The effort required to support and build a solution is far beyond what I have available.

You can set up an Office365 email account that forwards to another email service that support POP/IMAP and connect that to Postie. Or skip the forwarding and just send the email to the non-Outlook account.

Okay thanks. Solved it via forwarding.

@wayneallen-1 Does your comment mean that gmail doesn’t (or won’t) work with Postie either? Trying to think about where I might forward my O365 messages to.

Gmail works for most people, but you do likely need to use an app password.
See https://postieplugin.com/postie-gmail/

Great, thanks!

I wanted to thank you Wayne, for this solution works great! We were finally able to use the ‘app password’ option to make postie run again. For anyone having issues with Office 365 exchange servers, this is the way.
https://postieplugin.com/postie-gmail/
Thank you Wayne!

Just to put this on your radar, I would connect Postie to an Office365 account if it worked. I **LOVE** this plugin, it was huge in creating a feature I couldn’t figure out how to do any other way. So I am just using one of my own email addresses on Hostmonster instead of my client’s email address.

The feature I was able to build with this plugin:

Client sends SMS notifications to employees using AlertMedia. They want to display the recent alerts on the employee portal on their website. That SMS provider doesn’t play with anyone else like Zapier. But they do have email notifications as well. So I’m having the send alerts to a special email address, then Postie empties and makes posts in a certain category, and I have a page which displays the posts from that category. I strip out the messy beginning and end of the messages with Postie and format the posts with CSS. They LOVE it! Thank you.

Nice solution.