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The program itself never actually has your password, just token (or whatever) telling the service it's fine to interact with it.
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Inexplicably Outlook 2016 STILL doesn't seem to support OAuth, which is kind of blowing my mind.even more so because Microsoft's free "Mail and Calendar" program for Windows 10 supports OAuth just fine! So why the heck doesn't Outlook?īasically with OAuth, when setting up the account, the program will display a window with a web page in it prompting you to log in to your account (Gmail, in this case), and then showing what permissions the program is wanting, and verifying that that's (The supposedly "less secure" option being to have the program log in with your actual username and password.) So GMail wants to use OAuth, that's the "more secure" option it's talking about. You can turn off accessįor these apps, which we recommend, or turn on access if you want to use them despite Not have that setting, and I doubt that my admin would go along with disabling security.Īpps and devices use less secure sign-in technology, which makes your account more vulnerable. On top of that, my corporate email account does
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Is there another work around? I would rather not turn off security settings. If I toggle that setting, Outlook 2016 will work. Gmail strongly recommends against it, and warns that my account will be at risk). In my gmailĪccount I received a message saying that access was blocked due to the program trying to access gmail not using " modernįor my personal account, I can turn off the setting (even though When trying to setup my gmail accounts, I keep getting "incorrect password" messages, although I know my password is correct.
#Cannot set up gmail in outlook 2016 for mac#
I am trying to setup my personal and corporate gmail accounts in Office Outlook for Mac 2016.