Gmail not receiving @live.co.uk emails

[Terbinator]

And it's driving me around the bend.

This has been happening since March for the desktop/web client and I've finally sat down to sort it out tonight and can't get it to work at all.

My phone receives the emails fine which is why I've managed to soldier on for so long but the web application just won't renew my inbox or let me successfully re-add the account for inbound/POP3 messages. Outbound messages - send as 'example@live.co.uk' - works fine.

I've even reset passwords to ensure that isn't the reason and it still bounced me an authentication error.

Any suggestions?

[Marenghi]

do you by chance have two factor auth turned on? if so have you tried the 'app password' rather than your proper password?

i presume you've read the help section in gmail about importing emails from another provider? gmail, settings, accounts & import, then under the heading 'check email from other accounts' click on learn more

[Terbinator]

do you by chance have two factor auth turned on?

I do.

If so have you tried the 'app password' rather than your proper password?

Where would I find this? My 2SA is via my phone, but the Gmail app to add a new POP account doesn't ask for anything besides password and there is no option to send a text to me phone or ping the Android authenticator app.

i presume you've read the help section in gmail about importing emails from another provider? gmail, settings, accounts & import, then under the heading 'check email from other accounts' click on learn more

Yep, and it's all going through normally as far as I can tell. As I mentioned it only stopped working in May and I still receive the @live.co.uk emails through on my phone via the same Gmail account.

[Marenghi]

https://myaccount.google.com/security
https://account.live.com/proofs/Mana...m&refp=privacy

you can revoke or create a new app pw from there