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Telus email accounts not working on new MacBook Air
Hi; I have a new MacBook Air [Sonoma 14.2.1] on which I am not having much luck accessing emails using Mac Mail. I also have a desktop iMac on which I am accessing my Telus accounts just fine. I hav...
I am in the same situation, and I'm fairly certain this is an Apple Mail issue. The Mail app in Sonoma does not provide an option to set the "Less Secure Authentication" setting, as far as I can tell. I also tested this with the Outlook and Thunderbird clients for Mac, and neither one had any trouble setting up the connection automatically - no intervention, no tweaking.
Also submitted a bug report to Apple, but I'm not holding my breath !
Forgot to mention - I'm on a MacBook Pro M3 Pro. For what it's worth, my iPhone SE had no trouble (migrated from iPhone 8 about 6 months back), while my wife's iPhone 14 Plus fails and so does her 3 year old MacBook Air (also running Sonoma). The Air has never previously used the Mail app - only tried after I ran into the problem with my MacBook Pro.
