Microsoft provided notification that basic authentication for access to Outlook.com accounts will be terminated as of 9/16/24. I currently use an outlook.com account to send status and watchdog emails via SMTP from my peplink devices. I think Google may have implemented a similar requirement last year. Does the peplink devices use/support Modern Authentication Methods such that this will continue to work??
Brian
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Can Peplink please reply to this inquiry?
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Hello… I am not a Peplink employee.
Did you try…
At your outlook profile
- Create a App passwords. This will generate a random letters… like qwe9qw8eqweq
copy this password.
Go to your peplink and configure:
SMTP Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com
check Require authentication
Connection Security STARTTLS
port 587
your outlook account: [email protected] ; sample
smtp password: use the random letters, get at App Passwords
repeat same password
Sender’s Email Address: [email protected] ; sample
Recipient’s Email Address: [email protected] ; sample
try Test Email Notification
I got this…
[INFO] Try email through auto detected connection
[<-] 220 xxxxxx.outlook.office365.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Fri, 26 Jul 2024 23:10:40 +0000 [xxxxx]
[->] EHLO balance.peplink.com
[<-] 250-xxxxx.outlook.office365.com Hello [9.9.9.9]
[<-] 250-SIZE 157286400
[<-] 250-PIPELINING
[<-] 250-DSN
[<-] 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
[<-] 250-STARTTLS
[<-] 250-8BITMIME
[<-] 250-BINARYMIME
[<-] 250-CHUNKING
[<-] 250 SMTPUTF8
[->] STARTTLS
[<-] 220 2.0.0 SMTP server ready
[INFO] SMTP through SSL/TLS connected
[->] EHLO balance.peplink.com
[<-] 250-xxxxxxx.outlook.office365.com Hello [9.9.9.9]
[<-] 250-SIZE 157286400
[<-] 250-PIPELINING
[<-] 250-DSN
[<-] 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
[<-] 250-AUTH LOGIN XOAUTH2
[<-] 250-8BITMIME
[<-] 250-BINARYMIME
[<-] 250-CHUNKING
[<-] 250 SMTPUTF8
[->] AUTH LOGIN
[<-] 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
[->] dGhiYXJyb3NAaG90bWFpbC5jb20=
[<-] 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
[->] d2dtYWp0cGlzbGdwZXNrZA==
[<-] 235 2.7.0 Authentication successful
[->] MAIL FROM:[email protected]
[<-] 250 2.1.0 Sender OK
[->] RCPT TO:[email protected]
[<-] 250 2.1.5 Recipient OK
[->] DATA
[<-] 354 Start mail input; end with .
[->] Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 20:10:44 -0300
[->] From: [email protected]
[->] To: [email protected]
[->] Subject: [MAX_TST_xxxx] Email Notification Test
This is an automated message generated from MAX_TST_xxxx (Peplink MAX Transit Duo Pro: xxxx-xxxx-xxxx running 8.4.1s032 build 5494).
If you are reading this email, your Email Notification settings are correct.
Peplink | http://www.peplink.com
Jul 26, 2024
[->]
[->] .
[<-] 250 2.0.0 OK [Hostname=xxxxxx]
[->] QUIT
[<-] 221 2.0.0 Service closing transmission channel
And at my eMail account got
This is an automated message generated from MAX_TST_E64A (Peplink MAX Transit Duo Pro: xxxx-xxxx-xxxx running 8.4.1s032 build 5494).
If you are reading this email, your Email Notification settings are correct.
Everything works… Save and Apply.
Hope… This works for you.
Regards,
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Thank you Marcelo, It appears Microsoft finally shut off the old authentication as I did not get my normal watchdog emails this morning. So I followed your instructions above but my test email fails. i tried two different App passwords. The test does not state why it failed. If you have any thoughts or tips, please share, otherwise I will hunt around and see if I can find other solutions. Maybe some of my other emails accounts will work.
Thanks, Brian
I use mailgun for smtp email from my platforms. i recommend it.
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