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Outlook 2016 IMAP persists in failing to connect with Gmail
I have a Gmail account. I keep failing for a month now (except for a fleeting few days) to connect Outlook 2016 via IMAP to Gmail.
I upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 2 two months ago. I had Office 2007. POP email kept working fine. However, a month ago, the perplexing “enter your username and password” credentials popup started to be stuck with my Outlook POP account. I can access my Gmail mail in my browser(s), and still do. I uninstalled Office 2007 (assumed that Google stopped supporting it anymore) and installed Office 2016.
I stopped POP.
Over two weeks, I tried to create (about two dozen times) an IMAP Outlook account (incoming mail server imap.gmail.com, SLL 993, Outgoing mail server smtp.gmail.com, TLS 587. I did not choose ‘Require logon using SPA’).
In my Gmail's account “Allow less secure apps” setting is set to ON. However, I persistently failed to get rid of the pesky pop up.
However, one morning two weeks ago (and after two weeks of failure), Outlook suddenly communicated with Gmail with the IMAP account that was created the night before (and wasn’t working), and I saw my Gmail mail in my Outlook.
Three days later, and without any changes on my part, the pesky popup notification again stopped Outlook to connect with Gmail.
I thought that there might be a problem with Outlook 2016. Hence, I did a ‘repair’ of it. All that did was to delete all of my nearly two dozen filters which I had to manually recreate. Once I tried to yet create a new Outlook IMAP account, all of these were again deleted, and still not communicating with Gmail which grabbed my rules when it communicated with Outlook for a few days. Bummer. I see the rules in Gmail, but they are not filtering.
After a month of failures has passed, I asked my son to create his Gmail account in my Outlook using my computer (Windows 10, Outlook 2016), with the same settings mentioned above. My son’s IMAP account was created and worked in my Outlook. My gmail account persists to fail. I changed my password assuming there was a problem with it. I kept getting the curt pesky popup.
I have these three queries:
1- Has my account blocked access to certain communication applications/protocols in Windows 10, or would some MS applications in it block my account to communication with Gmail?
2- What other settings must I adjust in my Gmail account to allow Outlook to access it?
3- Would anybody out there be also suffering as I do with this perplexing issue, or is Outlook itself not a Grade A client?
A wise comment would be very much appreciated.