Closed rtanglao closed 8 months ago
tl;dr not sure we can fix this. It seems like an MS issue not a Thunderbird issue. Willing as always to be proven wrong :-) !
OAuth2
(TB autoconfig set it to Normal password
hooray for microsoft lack of clarity :-) (i tested on Windows 11, Ubuntu and macOS all with the same results)
Mozilla is working to resolve the problem. Presumably, Thunderbird needs a new OAuth setup with advanced MFA support. In the meantime, Thunderbird users must go down a circuitous route to receive emails from their Outlook, Hotmail, and Live inboxes. The steps are outlined in a [Mozilla support post](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/microsoft-oauth-authentication-and-thunderbird-202) and in several [Reddit threads](https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/19fevs6/finally_found_the_fix_for_this_msft_email_issue/), but we'll give you the gist of it here.
<-- I respectfullly disagree. I don't think we need to fix anything in Thunderbird nor do users need to generate an App Password but I could be wrong.Unfortunately, this story is accompanied by an additional problem. Several email clients, including Thunderbird and the official Outlook app, cannot maintain a connection with Microsoft's email services. Logging in with an App Password works, but the account randomly disconnects. Microsoft is [investigating](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/outlook-and-other-apps-are-unable-to-connect-to-outlook-com-f4202ebf-89c6-4a8a-bec3-3d60cf7deaef) the issue and explicitly mentions Thunderbird in its support post.
<-- I cannot reproduce this. Logging in with the outlook.com password, i.e. not the App Password works and I have had no issues with random disconnects in Thunderbird in my testingChanging the config to use OAuth2 should be fine. I'll run some tests next week to make sure there's no problems.
@rtanglao: The updated config is now available in the staging environment. You can test it in Thunderbird by changing mailnews.auto_config_url
to https://autoconfig-stage.thunderbird.net/v1.1/
It worked fine in my tests. But if you have the time, please do some checks on your side as well.
I tested this with thunderbird beta 123 and hotmail configured with OAuth2 for IMAP and SMTP so you can close this issue @cketti Thanks for fixing it!
I now also pushed the change to the production environment.
Normal password
OAuth2