Nov 10

MailBot has been updated to version 17.98.

Starting around October 8th, Outlook disabled POP/IMAP activation for all new accounts at the administrator level of the Microsoft Exchange server that hosts Outlook email!

Important! This restriction expires two days after account creation.

You won’t be able to activate POP/IMAP in a newly created Outlook account, even if you create it manually in a browser, confirm your recovery email, and enable the “POP” and “IMAP” switches in the “Forwarding and IMAP” section of your account settings:

A screenshot of the POP/IMAP settings in an Outlook account

The switches will be drawn as enabled, but any HTTP requests that are sent will receive a 500 Internal Server Error response from the server with the following error JSON:

{
  "Body": {
    "ErrorCode": 500,
    "ExceptionName": "OwaInvalidOperationException",
    "FaultMessage": null,
    "IsTransient": false,
    "ResponseCode": "ErrorInternalServerError"
  }
}

You won’t see any error in the Outlook web interface. The IsTransient field, set to false, indicates that the error isn’t temporary, but caused by a configuration (policy restriction). In simple terms, this means Read more »

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Feb 21

MailBot has been updated to version 16.93.

Implemented GMX.fr account creator and checker.

The new service is located in the “European” subtab of the “Provider” tab.

3 new domains are at your service:

  • gmx.fr
  • caramail.fr
  • caramail.com

as well as active access via IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.

To create a GMX.fr account, you need to solve one reCAPTCHA v2. For optional activation of email protocols, you need to solve a regular image CAPTCHA:

CAPTCHA GMX.fr

The update, as always, is completely free for users of the full version of MailBot. Other customers, as always, can additionally purchase the GMX.fr creator and checker with a 50% discount (the price with the discount can be calculated here). If you do not yet have a MailBot license, purchasing the GMX.fr module separately will cost $67.

Outlook

The ability to register mailboxes on the following domains Read more »

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Sep 30

MailBot has been updated to version 16.54.

OAuth2 logo

Since September 20, 2024, Microsoft has almost completely disabled authentication via regular password (PLAIN method) on its IMAP, SMTP and POP3 servers, leaving only the OAuth2 option (XOAUTH2 method). As of today, only a few servers remain unpatched, and it is almost impossible to authenticate with a regular password on Outlook mail servers.

If you try to authenticate with a regular password, for example, the Outlook SMTP server will respond with this error:

535 5.7.139 Authentication unsuccessful, basic authentication is disabled.

and the Outlook IMAP server will respond with this one:

001 NO AUTHENTICATE failed.

To some extent, this also affected MailBot, since the verification of recovery emails in the program is carried out via the IMAP protocol.

In connection with this, a new setting “Authentication” appeared in the recovery email source settings window in MailBot, which is a list with two values:

  • Plain password
  • OAuth2

New authentication method setting for IMAP in MailBot

When connecting Outlook accounts as recovery emails, you now need to select only OAuth2, and the format of the recovery emails in the file should look like Read more »

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