[GUI-Talk] Gmail and Outlook: Recent Security Conundrums

[Curtis Chong]

Hello Sherri:

First and foremost, the two-factor authentication being on or off has
nothing to do with the error you are apparently receiving. The two-factor
authentication with Google is only necessary if you intend or need to use an
application-specific password as you might have to do connecting Outlook to
your Gmail account. Of course, it goes without saying that two-factor
authentication is a bit more secure than the traditional user name and
password type of authentication.

The reason you are receiving an error about an address not being found is
based on the content of your To:, CC:, or BCC:, fields. You should examine
these fields carefully at least once to see what is being placed into them
before sending.

Cordially,

Curtis Chong


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Curtis, every time I try to send an e-mail to this list, it says the address
does not exist.  I do have two-factor authentication enabled for my Gmail.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.  Thank you.
Sherri Brun 
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Subject: [GUI-Talk] Gmail and Outlook: Recent Security Conundrums

Greetings everyone:

 

Some of you who use Outlook to read and write Gmail messages may have
noticed that there is a problem where you are being asked to enter your
Gmail password and that password is not being recognized. This is not a
problem with either accessibility or your screen reader. Rather, this is a
long-planned change that Google has implemented about which many Gmail users
were notified in advance.

 

While we can quibble about the effective of the communication from Google
and the complexity of the ultimate solution (yes, there is a solution to
this problem), please understand that nonvisual access in particular and
accessibility in general are not the issues here.

 

If your email software is, as they say, not modern, the only way around this
problem is to activate two-factor authentication for your Google account,
create what Google calls an app-specific password, and then use that
password in your email client.

 

Those of us who are using the latest versions of Microsoft 365 have had to
remove the Gmail account from Outlook and then add it back again.

 

I hope this helps to provide some clarification about an issue which, to be
candid, is hitting lots and lots of people.

 

Cordially,

 

Curtis Chong

 

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