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The server has rejected your login in the outlook for configured Gmail account

May 18, 2020 M S Bhandari 0 Software and Apps,

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The outlook is one of the best email clients for desktop and laptop pc. If you want to configure your personal Gmail or official G Suite account. Outlook/thunderbird / Windows mail as a POP3.  As we see Gmail not allowing new configuration in outlook or other mail clients with POP3 protocol. At the end of configuration yet your sending/receiving test is failing.

Outlook Password Popup

Outlook Error for Password using Gmail account

Sometimes you open outlook after a few days its popup as follows error message:

“The server has rejected your login.  Please verify your username and password is correct.”

In the beginning, you will reset your password and we will check. If there is any SMTP or POP3 port mismatching as required for outlook to configure Gmail account.

The problem seems to be on the server.  What can we do to resolve this issue?

How to check Gmail account for POP / IMAP configuration

Settings
  1. Sign in to Gmail account.
  2. Go to settings option click gear icon which is in the right just above the mail list.
  3. Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP – Now Select Enable POP as highlighted in the following screenshot. The POP option should be enabled.
Google POP / IMAP Enable

After checking the above options you have to check outlook and Gmail outlook configuration. The requirements for POP accounts in a mail client is would differ.

POP3 Settings for Gmail account – To set up in outlook/thunderbird

Incoming Mail (POP) Serverpop.gmail.com Requires SSL: Yes Port: 995
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Serversmtp.gmail.com Requires SSL: Yes Requires TLS: Yes (if available) Requires Authentication: Yes Port for TLS/STARTTLS: 587 If you use Gmail with your work or school account, check with your administrator for the correct SMTP configuration.
Server timeoutsGreater than 1 minute (5 is recommended)
Full Name or Display NameYour name
Account Name, User Name, or Email addressYour email address
PasswordYour Gmail password
Google Settings for POP outlook

If still the problem not getting resolve and you are not able to configure the POP account in a mail client like outlook and thunderbird follows steps ahead to get rid of.

Solutions to resolve Outlook/thunderbird Password popup issue:

Error “The server has rejected your login.  Please verify your username and password is correct.“

Steps:

1. Login again to Google /Gmail account Go to your Google Account –

2. Click on “Security”.

Google account Settings

3. Scroll down to “Less secure app access” and turn ON.

Or Just click this link you will directly reach the required location Have you allowed for less secure apps? 

https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps

Sharing screenshot to quickly understand the process in detailed:

Now verify your outlook or windows mails again, it should work.

Note: Google recommends use MAPI protocol to get rid of such all the problems. As per google treat these mail clients as non-secure apps.  That is why we need to enable to use of the less secured app for POP configuration.

Conclusion:

Our team face this issue and dig the web and found google support forum based on a recommendation we try to use outlook with pop.

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Tags: configure gmail account, gmail pop and smtp, Outlook, thunderbiard, Windows mail

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