Monday, June 16, 2025: 10:56 PM: I worked on Marilyn Schwartz’s computer for about two and a half hours this morning. Outlook Classic decided it didn’t want to collect Gmail messages for her anymore. After I got hold of it though, “Outlook changed its mind.”
The Google application password disappeared from Marilyn’s account on their server. Additionally, Outlook Classic has a settings interface that seems to operate separately from the Windows 11 Control Panel.
So you could run a repair on the email account via Control Panel and have it actually send a successful test message. However, when you opened Outlook Classic, it still wouldn’t work fully, receiving email but not sending it.
But, what the hell. “Why not get screwed by two companies simultaneously.”
My eventual solution was to go to the email settings in Outlook Classic, navigate to server settings and have a look at the way the username and password were entered in the boxes for the SMTP server. Yup! “There was a problem there with the username!”
I know Microsoft wants to kill off the Control Panel in Windows some day down the road. But the way they are going about it certainly can make things interesting at times, “Even with Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 fully updated.”
I understand why people get frustrated with this stuff. Microsoft and other companies, despite their best efforts, manage to make things way more complicated than they need to be. But we all still have to have their products, “Right?”