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You can still configure an app password


Good luck with that. I couldn't get it to work and to switch to a mail account on another non Google host.

Already before the LSA would disable and you would need to go into the settings to re-enable it all the time.


It’ll end up as a local POP or SMTP daemon which redirects email through an OAuth’d app.

Everything old is new again, we’re running services locally just to make legacy work.


App Passwords have always worked fine for us, and have done for years!




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