docs(email): clarify Outlook password auth failures

Co-authored-by: Alexandre Teixeira <111787685+alteixeira20@users.noreply.github.com>
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Aman Tewary
2026-06-08 10:32:16 -04:00
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commit d458cade98
6 changed files with 128 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -71,6 +71,38 @@ def _send_smtp_message(cfg: dict, from_addr: str, recipients: list[str], message
smtp.sendmail(from_addr, recipients, message)
def _friendly_email_auth_error(protocol: str, host: str, error: object) -> str:
"""Return a clearer setup error for known provider auth policies."""
raw = str(error or "")
lower = raw.lower()
host_lower = (host or "").lower()
microsoft_host = any(
marker in host_lower
for marker in (
"outlook.office365.com",
"smtp.office365.com",
"office365.com",
"outlook.com",
"hotmail.com",
"live.com",
)
)
microsoft_basic_auth_failure = (
"5.7.139" in lower
or "basic authentication is disabled" in lower
or ("authenticate failed" in lower and microsoft_host)
or ("authentication unsuccessful" in lower and microsoft_host)
)
if microsoft_basic_auth_failure:
return (
"Microsoft no longer accepts normal mailbox passwords for "
"Outlook/Office 365 IMAP/SMTP in most accounts. Odysseus "
"does not support Microsoft OAuth/Graph mail yet, so Outlook "
"accounts cannot be added with this password form."
)
return raw[:200]
def _strip_think(text: str) -> str:
"""Email-flavored think strip — thin wrapper over the central helper.