Outlook App Password

APP_PASSWORD 1 Reputation point
2022-08-15T05:35:11.273+00:00

I use an Outlook account as an email sender. Recently all my attempt to send email has met with this error

535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, the request did not meet the criteria to be authenticated successfully. Contact your administrator.

This process was working for several years now and this is the first time I have seen this issue.

  1. is this a new policy?
  2. I was trying to add App Password method on Security Info but the option is not available.
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  1. Andy David - MVP 116.3K Reputation points MVP
    2022-08-15T12:00:14.24+00:00
  2. Carlos Solís Salazar 11,046 Reputation points
    2022-08-15T18:09:24.897+00:00

    Hi @APPPASSWORD-7272

    Thank you for asking this question on the **Microsoft Q&A Platform. **

    It looks like the user has the MFA active.

    If you have the privilege, check in your Azure AD the Sign-In logs for the user
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    If you have a new policy and require not to use an MFA, use the following method "Authenticate an IMAP, POP or SMTP connection using OAuth"

    Hope this helps,
    Carlos Solís Salazar

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