Constantly getting Red Triangle

[John_A]

See this announcement:

Microsoft and basic authentication - personal outlook accounts

We have received numerous reports concerning free personal Microsoft email accounts – those with domains containing Outlook, Hotmail, Live, WindowsLive, Msn, and various regional variations these email accounts have had over the years. Therefore, we would like to address the situation. Microsoft declared their intention to end direct password login (including app passwords) a few years ago, but they did not enforce this on all their servers simultaneously. This means that, for some accounts, di…

I have 4 free Microsoft email addresses. They used to work without any problems in eM Client prior to the change Microsoft made to my accounts as referenced.

I then had to set them all up in eMClient as iMap as specified. They work, but I am getting red triangles intermittently on 4 computers for both emClient V9 and V10, Windows 10 and 11. This particularly happens on eM Client program startup where eM Client would be issuing many ?requests? to MS servers from the same IP address.

All my MS email accounts work fine using outlook.com and Outlook app on mobile.

I have a suspicion that Microsoft servers may have timing or other limits handling large numbers of iMap requests from non-Microsoft email clients. Could this be by intention by Microsoft, to try to force people to use Microsoft apps?

I am eventually getting all my emails in eM Client, but seeing and dealing with red triangles is frustrating.

I will stay with eM Client and have just accepted the intermittent red triangles as penalty from Microsoft.

Maybe eM Client could give me an option to ignore transient red triangles, or slow down the requests to Microsoft servers, maybe giving us an appropriate account setting to adjust timing.

BTW, the only third-party security software is Malwarebytes (which shouldn’t affect email). As an experiment, I stopped Malwarebytes starting up for a few days and still got red triangles.