Personal Consumer Issues • Re: Thunderbird Update Problem

I do not know. What does authentication do?

Verifies your identity so someone can’t hack your email.

Eudora...a name I have not heard in a long time. Probably stopped using it about 2007 (but I did like it).

To answer the question very high level. Eudora (iirc) will long into the mail service. So for that Eudora sends the information to the server and the server, which is much newer s/w, validates your. If the server uses a 2FA that is all email client based, Eudora likely would have failed.

As to local access, Eudora is running on the local PC, so authentication can be handled by who the heck is in my house with access to my computer plus whatever protection the op system is using.

IOW, the security of Eudora is not really dependent on the local client being updated.

If the server is not authenticating Eudora, that is the problem, not Eudora. It seems to me that means the account on the email server is not authenticating. For example, in September, MS Outlook servers are going to stop working with any email client which is not authenticating. So far, Gmail allows unprotected accounts (I have two unprotected throw-away accounts) but I think it is a matter of time before these will require authentication.

Do you mean 2FA? AFAIK They all do and h@ve forever required account/password authentication. Eudora definitely had account/password at least authentication

yes; although many are moving beyond traditional text message 2FA. My T-Bird accounts all use Auth2 authentication. For a while, I was able to log into outlook dot come using a browser with just my ID and PW but in September, this will be stopped by MS. GMail still allows it, although I don't use it - I use GMail authentication for my phone and Auth2 for T-Bird. If a client does not have accepted authentication application it will fail with MS email service. I suspect GMail will go that route soon as they are beefing up security quite a bit.

Edit: this is what the T-Bird server settings look like for my Outlook account. The drop down allows simple password but in September that will fail when the client attempts to connect to the iMap server (or POP server for that matter).

Statistics: Posted by jebmke — Tue Jul 30, 2024 9:48 am

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