Anybody having problems with usernames and passwords?

Fritz said:
syncing your smart phone with your computer stuff might help with the sign in stuff as well.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but in my case, I've never once signed into Outlook with a phone (only my laptop) so I would hesitate to involve yet another device.
 

I also have old accounts through Microsoft (MSN and Hotmail emails) that I don't want to ditch. My desktop uses Thunderbird to process my emails, and all too often it can't access my Microsoft emails and resetting everything is a royal pain in the butt. So I don't bother anymore.

My workaround? All my Microsoft emails are automatically forwarded to similarly named accounts from another provider. So while StarSongXYZ@hotmail.com emails might not be easily accessible, it doesn't matter because they're showing up at StarSongXYZ@yahoo.com.

I occasionally sign into my Microsoft emails to clear out old emails.

BTW, Thunderbird is a meh email app. If anyone knows of a better one, I'd love to learn about it.
 
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StarSong said:
I also have old accounts through Microsoft (MSN and Hotmail emails) that I don't want to ditch. My desktop uses Thunderbird to process my emails, and all too often it can't access my Microsoft emails and resetting everything is a royal pain in the butt. So I don't bother anymore.

My workaround? All my Microsoft emails are automatically forwarded to similarly named accounts from another provider. So while StarSongXYZ@hotmail.com emails might not be easily accessible, it doesn't matter because they're showing up at StarSongXYZ@yahoo.com.

I occasionally sign into my Microsoft emails to clear out old emails.

BTW, Thunderbird is a meh email app. If anyone knows of a better one, I'd love to learn about it.
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THANK YOU!!! Right after reading your suggestion on forwarding all Hotmail (Outlook) messages to another email provider, I went into Outlook settings, found the option, did it, tested it, and it worked!

You have no idea how much this means to me. This has eleviated a lot of worry. If I can't sign into Hotmail, it will not be the big issue it was.
 

hollydolly said:
I tell you what annoys me, is very often outlook will not accept my password even tho' I know it's the correct one. Just yesterday for example..it did it again.. I entered the correct p/word 3 times then it said I had to make a new password, so I let it send me a link so I could change the password, and then I entered the same p/wod I was using before.. and it said ''You can't use the same p/word you've used in the last year '' :oops::oops::oops:...but wait..I thought I was entering the wrong p/word according to outlook.. :oops::oops:
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Oh yes! I get the same crap from iCloud photos from my iphone. Every month when I log in they tell me that my password is wrong. I know it's right because I always write it down. So, every month I have to change my password. It's very annoying because I pay for the service of uploading my photos.
 
The whole website log-in / username & password fresh hell of present is thanks to the hacker tools available now that are overwhelming internet security. Some financial and Gov't sites play stupid and won't recognize established user log-in credentials, forcing the user to "reset" passwords, then rejecting them as well.
 
StarSong said:
I also have old accounts through Microsoft (MSN and Hotmail emails) that I don't want to ditch. My desktop uses Thunderbird to process my emails, and all too often it can't access my Microsoft emails and resetting everything is a royal pain in the butt. So I don't bother anymore.

My workaround? All my Microsoft emails are automatically forwarded to similarly named accounts from another provider. So while StarSongXYZ@hotmail.com emails might not be easily accessible, it doesn't matter because they're showing up at StarSongXYZ@yahoo.com.

I occasionally sign into my Microsoft emails to clear out old emails.

BTW, Thunderbird is a meh email app. If anyone knows of a better one, I'd love to learn about it.
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I ditched Thunderbird once I was without an ISP mail service. I'm been pleased with Gmail as well as Google's other services.
 
Nathan said:
I ditched Thunderbird once I was without an ISP mail service. I'm been pleased with Gmail as well as Google's other services.
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But you have to log into each email to see what came in, right? I have 8 different 8 mail accounts. I could ditch 3 of them without missing too much, but not the rest. Logging into each one every day, never mind several times a day? To channel Scarett O'Hara: Why Suh, I feel faint at the very thought...
 
StarSong said:
But you have to log into each email to see what came in, right? I have 8 different 8 mail accounts. I could ditch 3 of them without missing too much, but not the rest. Logging into each one every day, never mind several times a day? To channel Scarett O'Hara: Why Suh, I feel faint at the very thought...
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I'm not sure what you mean, if I'm logged in to Gmail in a browser all emails can be read at any time. If you "log off" the account or dump all data upon close of the browser, then next time of course You'd have to log in.
 
Nathan said:
I'm not sure what you mean, if I'm logged in to Gmail in a browser all emails can be read at any time. If you "log off" the account or dump all data upon close of the browser, then next time of course You'd have to log in.
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I've used 'evolution' a time or 2 for email accounts, that was with my Linux OS, Searching I found reference to the possibility of using the open source version of evolution with Win 10 as well as Win 11. I personally haven't followed that line of thinking but there are ways according to the info. I don't know how it handles other email services. I have 2 gmail accounts (one is default, two is Backup/Recovery)that have never had much of a problem with either Thunderbird or evolution.
 

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