Will Microsoft sign in technology change affect Vivaldi mail access?

[imaddicted2u]

@Hadden89 Thanks for quick the reply, I have Use Oauth checked in my accounts and they show Verified. I guess I'm good. Thanks again.

[edwardp]

@imaddicted2u @Hadden89 I maintain some Outlook accounts for testing, using OAuth to login. I have not received that particular communication from Microsoft.

[DoctorG]

@imaddicted2u Vivaldi dev team will always apply fast to new authentication for mail providers if not already exietent.

[imaddicted2u]

@edwardp I found the Gmail Android app listed in my Microsoft account that connects with Outlook.com (I used it on an old phone). I don't use it now so I removed the access. I checked to ensure my Outlook.com calendar is not shared.
The only app left on the list is Vivaldi Mail Client. Should be good, I think.

[imaddicted2u]

@DoctorG I've read some things about Microsoft changing from Oath to Oath2. If that is in fact the case, I'm sure the Dev team will be on top of it.

[edwardp]

@imaddicted2u The current OAuth specification is 2.0. The IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) oversees it and the 2.1 specification is in draft stage.

Perfectly OK to refer to it as OAuth.

[Hadden89]

@imaddicted2u The Oauth 1.0 is very old and probably the vivaldi mail client (and several clients) never widely supported it. The support thus was likely always referred to Oauth 2.0.

[paaljoachim]

First of all I might be butting into your thread and I appologize for doing so.

I might have received a similar email but it went below my radar so to speak (did not see it).

Tuesday last week all my various external emails that I check through my hotmail address stopped receiving emails.

As I have checked Vivaldi email before I liked what I saw I am now working on figuring out how to move all my hotmail messages as well as synced accounts I have been using to Vivaldi mail.

I have added the various external emails directly from the source but these do not contain many of the emails I received through hotmail. I have also imported all of my hotmail account. So I have access to the synced emails there. I am gradually rebuilding into Vivaldi how things were gathered in my hotmail account.

I am thinking I will add somekind of tutorial to this showing how I went forward.

[DoctorG]

In Settings → Mail → selected Account you can switch activate OAuth and the your will be asked in a browser popup to enter your hotmail mail address and hotmail login password. That's all.

[edwardp]

The current IMAP and SMTP settings and instructions for Outlook addresses can be found here.

I cannot say for certain if the same servers are used for Hotmail and/or Live, as I was unable to locate specific support pages for these two.